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after the 7th? the idiom this is the cemetery. thing . she's buried here. i believe her death was caused by all the arsenic and blood we have here day. you see a bay, i still asked myself why i was never allowed to see her medical records. but again, why is that? he was alone. i wasn't even allowed to take a picture of her if she lost her hair due to the chemotherapy and was completely bald laid by a ship every time i wanted to take a photo of her. she said no mama,

no. she didn't want to have her picture taken that way. medical obama low on her final day, she said come with me. when i said to her later, darling, medical had rally. she asked me if we have we tell them i said yes. and then i'll be sleeping next to you. she put her head on my shoulder and drew her last breath. even i looked the most of it was like when a baby says when alma for the 1st time he made a man, a medical mama, she breathed. mamma and at that moment i lost her you will never forget that. ready ready ah ah

no to phantom all 14 years ago i began retracing the steps from my home town in sweden. he said to my native country, chile, and the day the town of our rica. it installed adrica forget to places that have been connected my entire life wanted some unconnected by the mining company, alida and we'll either ah, mona had issued many people here a sig and thousands initially. they say it's because of the wasted at the beginning of all funded there are some to the waste that's left over after we've finished mining for gold back at home. after we'd extracted the precious metals from the or the melamine viewed and feel. we've made this film

on to tell that story for that visa. awesome. hm. okay. yeah, i laugh so you're allowed to live. i'm your slim to death yet that next to me is now a lush. warping amber. my 1st question did. how do you feel about what your country to? well jennifer has brought here gala. do you mean the toxic waste? since okay. i think my country's responsible ones, i would and should do something to help all of you. i said, i'll go put that aside to that.

ah, to amy in the mid 19 eighties when chili was ruled by a military dictatorship, bullied and shipped nearly 20000 tons of toxic sludge to a rica in northern sheila to lyrica. ah m, the nun hugo halted almosha neat, quicksilver. hopefully this lodge contained high levels of austin, a cold mercury, and lead shall landscape all logged prominent tea. maloney coolness, bullied and paid that she lay in company pro mel 1000000 euros to dispose of the toxic waste. but only a fraction of the sludge was processed in promos, furnaces, preston, cliff li, kunda box lumped. the rest was simply dumped into

a pile on the outskirts of a rica and forgotten me order, scalable studded, except from alice until whose summer and then it stopped. it forced us project in the years that followed by a densely populated neighbourhood emerged right next to it. off was her again, live only that ah had him man back han, bullied and is a pillar of society. you might say that it helped sustain and provide a living to my community. but what does bullied and have to say about how swedish mining ways ended up on the other side of the world upon darcy than you would definitely, you're simply not interested in a fair portrayal of this issue or as bullied in as a company. yes. it was a must do service bailey. that's not true. we described bullied in as an important

company that is done a lot for the community here than our big dental school. will plan on trying a connection between the people who work for bullied and to day and the situation and oscar gemini, of the of you get the idea. i don't think that's fair to the people who work for the company to day a counselor. and that ought to be it, that me feel all working on this film. i eventually came into contact with one of bullied and former directors rove the sped buried. was one of those responsible for shipping the toxic sludge to our rica. ah ha ha. we led us to wagner. he returned to over eager because he wanted to see with his own eyes the consequences of his decision. ah, i am the sick over there where it says casey stain. you

who got my children used to play there in about a few of them. but where did you hear about the young man who died of the tumor in his head? he was also poisoned. no one ever told him what was going on. the doctors in santiago didn't say anything because they said it would just affect the people here . man, easy g o, b, 10 year old children have to take these 3 months and the doctor see that they're insulin resistant. i don't understand what's happening here. there are so many drugs in examination with what i don't understand this a long time.

elicit ross is rove. he doesn't speak spanish. laura? beth? yes. well metre, vignette. this one. she had to have surgery today because of the toxic waste or extra nipples grew on her ear. mamma, that's why she had surgery. did. if she got pregnant, all of these nipples would have produced milk. that's why they had to be removed down to the c. m. had it, it isn't your fault that came to them? no, i wouldn't say that. but i feel terribly sad about this and that and very, very angry. if i had made a different decision, though,

none of this material would ever have been sent here. no lantern. again and when the lena, when he came here to our account, when you wait till me came to my house and we talked for quite a while now, or she'll explain the deal to us. we have telemundo and i remember that he was very emotionally affected after visiting the area and talking to the young people there after that experience. and i think that he said the bulletin has to address the damage done to the people there. for me, it was a question of justice denito and human rights, if any, a good ago. so whatever they might have piece. yeah. demand is it, it went through that ego, my sampler, am i from from all rodrigo and i have known each other for 14 years. one of him, he's from a rica and is an anthropologist. mendoza? libra?

true. when i 1st met him, he had begun working with the people affected by the toxic waste from sweden, the dog to day. he's probably the person who knows the most about the wastes scandal, lino rica in chile, both that she lay and stayed, and promo that the company that received the ways men were convicted in court. some took him and a small group of victims received compensation for the damage they suffered elite and their lot on the other men bully them, but bullied and has never been taken to court. i thought a target had o laden has avoided commenting on the a rica case whenever possible. medical mathematica found that they probably assume the case has been forgotten. a book club

will welcome. kimberly. hey, you are now, but i i, i'd like to speak to evolution. yes . hey, you wanna? my name is johan, either from carrot law firm in stocker. yahoo understandings, goober legions. legal representative. yes. i mean, you can go on the um, her, i'm calling because of the exports of toxic mining waist in the mid 1008 is the chilling partition. it is. i assume you're familiar with that though at the all to some of nathan, i've been looking into this case for a while. i it together with some colleagues from sweden. she lee and the u. s. and we've prepared a lawsuit her against bulletin gilbert armitage cassandra's answer come boldly don't ah

count can said malformations bone and joint pain the waste that's believed in ship to chile in the 1980s. this is dale, causing serious harm to day, said that a man julio eats 100 people from a poor community in the desert of northern chile, have lost a claim against the swedish company. mm hm. with this just too, it feels good to see that there are people who are pursuing the matter in a way that we as filmmakers aren't able to do it. kenyatta if you don't tito from the court cases the result of 4 years of preparation which began

after the release of a documentary film. as much as the report showed children played in the pile of toxic waste, which was full of arsenic lead, and mercury, and had to waste came from sweden and bullied. and none of this would have happened if the waste had stayed in sweden to study. ah, we were struck by how symbolic al representative was of cases of this type. there are many, many situations like this around the world where typically multinational corporations based and developed countries do things overseas that they would never dream about doing in their own country. ah,

louise gordon lewis gordon that is the founder of an american non profit organization backed by private donors that provides legal support to environmental cases around the world. he and a team, a swedish lawyers watched our film yet he can. why can't we be too late? i wish for each one of you a room believe between the so add your it is very crucial for become boston and name. we have okay. miss young. this was the case i dreamt told when i was in law school to represent

the weak against the mighty. this a step tried to let him push this in air aside. it's flattened out. probably with the had a plot. this is you city o f, that a bullet place where bullied into waste was kept until 1998. when she lane authorities instructed prom l to move the waste about a kilometer away sedans coming. but for 14 years before that, the sludge was located next to a residential area, volta islam at thought a door in the liquor, if you will, on all the people he is, say that by that time, toxic dust had spread across the entire area, said a tifton lay them how to speed, it's your middle that thank you for how the full problem still

existed. yasamin from before we were talking about when the waste was moved in 1988 and when it arrived here in 1995 before the waste is still here. it's unbelievable when you watch your film, in fact, it's hard to grasp how close the house is actually are not and nobody there knew anything in your follow up. nobody knew what it was or some loss of the wind lost from here. the stress over there. again, diana say, and nobody knew what it was like on a path back then there wasn't even any walls when this will built later when we the kids we used to come here to play. mommy, that was easy to get inside. one of what he ended up, the children would weigh her well for some of the things they would do specifically on why the m a mom equal. they were piles where kids would play in the dirt. all of them. yeah, some of them built castles with the montana at

thought on bought some extra joscelin is one of the many children who grew up in this neighbourhood in the 1st time i met her, she was 10 years old. the home of t. o. i lived with her family when i was in a rica when that are more on on that your body had you been with. and this class had 10 of it. so i watched her grow up on my visits to a rica, and soon she'll have a baby herself, scone child for bon mm. where it is just to live over there. this is simply of the amount of that because i'm pregnant. my baby is sharing my blood, or you're suffering from drama from that or, and arsenic, and as

a me arsenic. as an the now you're going to have a new member of the family. i only wish that the baby is born healthy in. wow. if i figured that out and assume with fidel city, i knew that 8000 people in all were tested and 2010 out of 8000 samples against those 6600 were examined by lab and santiago means an arsenic was confirmed at some of the diesel, so in the $6600.00 samples for arsenic poisoning was confirmed in 12.9 percent of them which is approximately 8 on the person's ctc. yes. by a 100 load. hipaa. we're already part of the lawsuit, is just that minority of the local residence, 825 people with out of

a group of 15000. we are 18000 persona with possible to join a new group of clemons. we can add people who have suffered harm, even though the case is already before the court in sweden. if you have arsenic levels of 30 or more, you can join the lawsuit with this is a court case. we might win or we might lose just like any lawsuit. okay, thank you. just think of how many thousands of tons of toxic waste with doors here . it was contaminated with 14 different heavy metals. we presented the case don't. belinda wouldn't have been dealing with a huge company. it has a great deal of power in europe over the next level, celia they them, unless given the opportunity to super lead in, in a swedish court that's already

a success even without knowing what will come of it. is it good me now? oh i lost your lars. you're responsible for launching the biggest lawsuit we've ever had here. so era really? very common health and home garage. uh huh. thank you. so this is our home for 8 weeks. we'll public gordon walkers. each guy. yeah. can you watch out, dan polluters from f. we're coming for you? ah, it all been austin. robin alden's, tom, i'm a lawyer representing bulletin in this case of a widow and i won't be we know

fairly well what they'll say. we've been exchanging arguments for several years now . it's been a long journey job. my name is lucille says neil, head of communications of believe it or boley them so boldly the hard so bullied and has done nothing wrong here of it. so the set up, so be our standpoint, is that we have a responsibility to clarify what happened, support the cleans with back the same effect to the everything is on the table. oh, it is an emotional chase is an important case for many people including gleaton ball. so we have to get to the bottom of this would almost be what it and get closer to the truth. lovable would necessarily be the most spectacular truth for me . but it should be that they did not the full truth. there was something oliver older than it must have been thus far less at 1st i said, slug, the case is the 1st of its kind in sweden. both sides have submitted thousands of

pages documenting the various investigations a show and the evidence take these to these thing. mm aah. sees it for the hearing will begin in case t 1012 slash 13. between the adrica, plaintiff and bullied and mineral able long bored us either both sides have brought in witnesses and scientists from all over the world explorer experts on chile and law. meteorologists, toxicologist, soil experts, chemists, semi metallic, just politicians, and former employees and directors, or schafer. under meaning on an audi cassie, them hotel exemption expanded. plaintiffs from america will present experts who will support the claim. that toxic levels of arsenic were found in that urine operation. and that it originates from bullied and smell to sludge. all fun. i am

a professor at chapman university in california. and my expert opinion, the smelter sludge, is a clear and significant source of arsenic in the area to discounted as a source of arsenic. it takes that tremendous stretch of imagination when i 1st heard from one of the lawyers that the bullet and waste had 17 percent arsenic. i didn't believe it. i've never heard anything like that. a pile of waste that close to a city to with that high of arsenic concentration. in one moment to how the tell your children that their father is going to die

in let me last one. they thought you thought he was my reason for everything. he wanted that and they took him from me as i think with that e. this is, could cathy a little less than darrow's good of him and then we have plaintiffs here as well. i got a 2011 study showed that there are high levels of arsenic here. anyhow, albany, the honeywell t like you're going to be a woman who lived in the house with the bars of them. she sold the house and died of cancer. danny te, conan lived next door. she had an aggressive cancer in her head and died to the new for you. he died i. e s. and the wife of her son had a baby who died. but her son doesn't want to talk to anyone about it or hear

anything about the contamination. and another neighbor mighty subpoena had the stomach cancer. the woman he bought her house had a tumor on her face and put in the man across from her. also had cancer way and then there's so many cases it, yes, it seems like every one here and marian muddy knew she had ovarian cancer. well defined by the time she died, the cancer had spread everywhere. then there's mrs. yaya who also died of cancer. it started in her years and spread that then there's mrs. teresa's husband, who also died of cancer, he had lung cancer and skin cancer, hockey gum from libya, and then mottos, father, we spoke about a molar. more melanie hurry, irv reger, i guess. what's the health situation like in other parts of attica, is he got a home in the area near the disposal site is very striking in another unit based not only compared to the rest of america in dummy, but to all of chill,

little british imperial cancer. when we started our research and $25.00 a, we didn't find higher rates, i can start in, but the will have but to day it are cases in almost every family that in the areas near the disposal site to literally a rate of cancer is much, much higher than in the rest of kilo differently enough in the gutter. janevalyn santo lasagna. re a been dog who hung up for listening to him was very interesting. he paints a picture of what he sees as the situation in the region to us, but as so often i don't believe his account holds up as evidence. it could be that in 1998, when people became aware that a big pile of potentially hazardous materials were stored there and they began to see it as the cause for all sorts of things for you. it became an explanation for all sorts of things. sca pacific gloria clogged

ah offs on that as the melody of rica and bullied and are a world apart like 2 worlds that never meet the reality of what is happening on the other side of the world are you seems far, far away, long or less than under estes hey you, i'm me fall now you had to leave and all my father worked, the boy lead me and visited chile when the sledge was being sold on a deal to have. i'm sure he died in 2008 other off, but often talked about how they, he and his bosses knew that the waste would not be handled properly in chile, the case haunted him for the rest of his life,

turned down to sleep. neither my father spent his entire working life and then in his last years he was dragged into the fray a little at the sledge hammer. okay. the funds hold saddam submitted until you meet them all to toilet. so even in the mid 19 eighties, there were people who doubted that the sludge would be handled safely. and chile, on accordions, father, martin lindstrom, appears on rovers, fed barracks, photo from a rica. no. you amanda, that a papa? oh yes, that's my father. definitely. mm. mm . men bulletins advocate say that fido laden's lawyers say that the company because of its visits to a rica who gray to precautions than they were required to. and that it was impossible to foresee that people would be exposed to the wise um, managed,

escalates bonita for off holland. yes, you get him to disarm all sorts of hindsight. and foresight are 2 different things . and non hindsight, there is an elegant english phrase. he a hindsight bias sham which describes a psychological phenomenon where we as human beings, when we think about an event in hindsight from will tend to believe that it was much more predictable than it really was more than incredible by just vol. threw up money for left or cash intense people in this town won't even dare to think that believe may have done anything wrong. they're the only thing my father sent to that effect was, as we understood that they wouldn't take care of the material pro play. he never said i understood it. ya, but i don't know what he meant by. we may be only live out that way or maybe there was some kind of consensus among mist off that they'd never have dead speak about it openly. i'm like moment sad,

hacked official, marty linds. martin lindstrom passed away several years ago. and anna caught in can't find anything in her father's note books that refers to the regrets her father expressed pins. there's nothing that could be used as evidence in the courtroom. ah, conversation and you see so 12 good. yeah. i just want to add to that. yeah. i want justice to be done here, tara beaver. my. my son was killed. kin, my boss, we who killed your son. why bo, lead a and my dad, the senate,

the toxic material here. and he knew exactly what they were doing. arks are on the we have no further questions, truly, knowledge fill them out. lessons on your side, please. no, your honor like to not up at the opposing party has no questions the hearing us over now before. so to type in stock form one other or we feel her for almost all to mother if you see. oh did. and i dare say that this was bulletins plan talk are all this is what happened was when big multinational corporations are accused of causing damage with their activity. incident azusa huge sums are spent on experts and consulting muscle from recall to produce hundreds of pages worth of reports of the theme, all with the goal of obscuring your what is evident, i believe, and hope that this court has the ability for do to see through all that all pos, okay. thank you from or got c, e m m ah

bully them in that of manish name. all it into lead that almost carla bullied and claims that the plaintiffs suffered no damages. and if they did, but it's not the result of their waste. bullied and doesn't even describe it as waste, but didn't salad material of negative value. did the rest of the out a negative to bad? ah. put him in that. ok. so they also said that if bleeding and as the a rica side claims them, it has contributed to a humana tearing catastrophe. then this was something the company could never have predicted say, ah,

how are you? good, thanks. a bit nervous, nervous narrative. yes. oh and you who are still selfish as emotional, who 11 years of work boils down to a single minute litany an from an alva. i know in the metal is are you ready for her from okay, here we go. okay. the verdict goes looked for. mm hm. okay, oh my god, i need to talk to the people here. what's the verdict at

bowie, and what, what ian what ah ha. the interest roosevelt, pacifica we have in our course were very disappointed. we hoped for a different outcome longer more. there are many, many people in the city of attica, or who stayed up all night. they are night yet. uh huh. mm hm. it's not fair. it's not fair. you know, behind our lives and now they're not even taking responsibility for it.

i have no idea what we can do. now. this proves nothing. all that it proves is that money talks and they have plenty of that go either with billable epic, the directly in the grammar. we're sorry we raised your hopes, right? but i also want to ask for your forgiveness. i'll be more than you don't have to do that to rodrigo, that we're very grateful for all the work you have done. yeah, i know you thought that she would win. so bizarre. we also what we would when but how do i, i'm in shock. yeah, i can hardly knew. we didn't stand a challenge. let me know.

life was a goals believer at all. or during this preceding legion's rule and the material from bronze care when an organ have been thoroughly scrutinized and animal, the conclusion is unequivocal. i call on the residents of erica, we want to try to accept the results of the investigation home to sure. and this trial, i'm afraid to say she left a ting hardballs, but the my, she, lance, the swedish court decided to apply chilly in law. so the statute of limitations hadn't expired. when i bought it bought the verdict, states that there is no proven connection between bullied and toxic waste and the arsenic are found in people's urine to sierra despite the fact that the court says bullied and acted negligently. and it states that this is not relevant. because a level of 30 micrograms of arsenic per late of urine does not represent tom.

instead, the court said a new level for damages at $100.00 micrograms, which is what bullied and had asked for philip, ha o. andrew caught them up on and the to the to be seen to me and women men, the men of the lawyers for erica, of course, do not agree with the verdict, but they also say that the court has made an important error on empty and hooks up in chile, the supreme court decided that $9000.00 micrograms of arsenic per liter of urine represents hom, which the swedish court did not take into consideration it all. the lawyers are convinced that they can win on appeal on them. come been hold. oh no.

i can. i see us. i got a 30 minute voting just read the key info. ah, there it is. oh, she yes. oh handle martin, i'm sorry. it didn't work. the court now decided to apply swedish law to the case also on a lease with a place. it's the statute of limitations. yes, don't horror. a plot. i can't believe it. they dismissed you to the statute limitations and didn't consider anything else. no,

they took the easy way out with all the pharmacy companies from set up only than a comment on them. so bullied and got away with it because they did nothing all this time. they didn't act in a timely manner. and so they avoided taking responsibility with delia distola. saw upon his call that you can bury toxic waste and your liability ends as soon as it's in the ground you then in 10 years it's no longer your problem. the children affected by bullied and toxic waste have their claims barred by the statute of limitations before they're even born. or this could be out of the don't . the number of photos ah, is fought. it's difficult to accept that justice has been done. 2 ah, dumb students get a quote from to let

a court should have told the whole truth and but now that the court has ruled that the statute of limitations has passed labels the truth never even got a full hearing. so we will never know what the justice system believes about bullied and his responsibility for what happened, you know, rica for this amount with we should claim i. right. so citizen, it's not our fault. they got money from the government to bring that toxic waste that contaminated our life. we have to join forces and fight for justice. ah ah ah

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