The Americas with Simon Reeve episode 4
The Americas with Simon Reeve episode 4: In this fourth leg of the journey, Simon travels through Texas and down the length of Mexico.
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00:02I'm on another huge journey.
00:04This time, I'm travelling
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00:22Feels like stumbling upon
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undefined:undefinedand blighted tropics...
00:43We're with armed conservationists.
00:46..to the heart of the battle
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undefined:undefinedepic landscapes,
01:06beauty...
01:09Buenos Dias!
01:11..and rich history.
01:13And this is actual
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01:27..in a region gripped
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undefined:undefinedanother leg of my journey
01:52down through the Americas.
01:54This is the international border
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02:15But on this side here,
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02:43and Mexico and much poorer
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undefined:undefinedthey now number around 50 million.
03:01By 2050, it's been predicted
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undefined:undefinedHow you doing?
03:24Herman is one of 3,000 Border Patrol
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03:43So...Oh, right, yeah, this is
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undefined:undefinedthe United States?Correct.
03:59We're still in America.
04:01Is that efficient at
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04:18Successive US governments have
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undefined:undefinedwhere it's needed.Right.
04:37This right here?
04:39That's the furthest-west
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04:54is an extremely divisive issue
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05:10Elsewhere, it's the Rio Grande River
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05:26believe it or not, the current in
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05:40who'd made it across.
05:42These people just here?Mm-hm.
05:45That's maybe, I think, four adults?
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06:12This is astonishing! There's...
06:14There's several different
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07:11OK.
07:20I could totally understand,
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07:34So if they're willing to travel
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undefined:undefinedthey?Right. They weren't hiding.
07:44They were just out in the open,
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07:57Migrants here used to be
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undefined:undefinedhealth care, jobs -
08:13a complicated mix of reasons.
08:15People come with children
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08:35Let me just call in
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08:53is stretching its resources
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09:13almost 5,000 a day.
09:15Sometimes it felt like Herman
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09:40so they might be bringing
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09:56Most are deemed to be
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10:10joined other family members,
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10:30But it has no appetite for that.
10:32To me, this situation
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10:45and it's hard for countries
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11:02they're going to spend their whole
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11:25Vast quantities of drugs
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11:40through Mexico and wait on
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12:08Who's all this for?
12:09This is all for refugees,
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12:27Excellent.
12:31Is there any more magic
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12:45we're going towards now?
12:48Impoverished, terrifying, completely
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13:05the propaganda and the media,
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13:19It's too dangerous.
13:20And how do you feel?
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13:36there's Border Patrol unit, that
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undefined:undefinedthe other side!Yeah.
13:55So, these are people waiting to come
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14:11government has been cracking down
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14:23These are some local friends, who
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14:42powerful criminal organisations,
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14:59are many sentries down there because
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15:14you've paid up -
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15:35now disappeared because we must
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undefined:undefinedit's now probably 600 today.
16:07600 people just here?
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16:21so the population's getting bigger
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16:59In this dangerous part of Mexico,
17:01migrants are desperately
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undefined:undefinedyou. From Bangladesh, all of you?
17:21Hello, wow!
17:22Hello!Hello!
17:23And why have you come here?
17:29Did you fly from Bangladesh
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18:12not such a good
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18:25all these migrants don't have
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18:38to find 5,000 to 10,000 minimum
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18:57so they're probably the most
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19:18So, I'm leaving here
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19:35You're very welcome.
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undefined:undefinedthan narcotics?Mm-hm. Si.
20:40Hola. Arturo Rodriguez.Arturo,
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undefined:undefinedBlack Mamba!
20:59So, this is a hardcore vehicle.
21:05Bloody hell!
21:07You see, this is not OK.
21:12Look at this.
21:14It's an impact from the AK-47.
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21:31Yes, very serious.
21:34You are not dealing
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21:54go and shoot, go and shoot those
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22:09The Mexican government has spent
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22:20and surveillance operations.
22:22OK.Show us this, what are these?
22:24Last year, we found these boxes,
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22:47We remove all of them.Mm-hm.
22:50What happened, just one month ago,
22:53we find out they've got a new
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23:34does that frighten you?
23:36We take it seriously, for sure.
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23:51But it's 300, the calibre.
23:55This does say on it, curiously,
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undefined:undefinedYes. Can you switch it on?Yeah.
24:15You see that?
24:16This is a sophisticated
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24:39It's thought around 70% of gun crime
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24:58situation. 41 shoot-outs.Yes.
25:02This is the guy we have arrested.
25:05This is the guy that unfortunately
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25:23Of one state in Mexico.Yes.
25:40So, we're heading
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26:36the Mexican state is here in force.
26:39And it is also partly needed.
26:42This is a dangerous place.
26:45It's been more than a decade
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27:00The American government
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27:19As a country, they sell huge
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27:40The state government of Tamaulipas
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undefined:undefinedwe should come here?
28:18Against all the odds,
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28:31He hopes it will change everything,
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undefined:undefinedit's industry, it's progress,
29:27it's the future.
29:34Even with our heavily armed escort
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29:47is from anything like normality.
29:50I'm not going to overnight here.
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30:22largest on the planet, and Mexico is
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30:37Mexico is one of the world's
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30:54Stephanie?Hi. Stephanie Mayoral.
30:56Nice to meet you.Hello, Stephanie.
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31:13execs and visiting travellers.
31:16Tell us a little bit about the size
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31:34So...We're going inside. Yes.Wow!
31:37Oh, my goodness!
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32:00The country produces more than
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32:15Foreign firms, especially American
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32:33There we go.
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32:49Volkswagen has created more
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33:06It's not the image of Mexico.
33:09The image of Mexico is not
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33:24The Mexican economy isn't just about
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34:10Are you somebody who had
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34:51Mexico is now the 11th biggest
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35:07have tried to cross the border
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35:22And are we able to stop here?
35:24Brilliant. Thank you, mate.
35:28We've just stopped by the side of
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35:55has lost one of these, whatever the
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36:39load into a vehicle
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37:10this colourful colonial city is
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37:36The south is a very different
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37:52around one in ten of the population.
37:55Between them,
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38:28and you're out into a world of
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38:46Fuel stop.
38:53Petrol station, Chiapas style.
38:59Inequality rates in Mexico
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39:16Please can I ask,
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39:42Is it expensive to buy?
40:04This largely indigenous state holds
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40:18conquered by the Spanish
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41:03Is it possible for us
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41:55Locals here believe water
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42:36billions of litres of delicious
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43:00Water is just one of the
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43:19Over the years, there have been
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43:37luckily not seeing us filming.
43:40Tens of thousands of Mexican
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43:54and declared an independent
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undefined:undefinedtensions have simmered ever since.
44:10Some local officials have come
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44:45has turned up
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undefined:undefinedand this doesn't always end well."
45:00Most indigenous people in Mexico
45:02and the Americas now live in
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undefined:undefinedor inside the jungle.
45:15Vast areas of Chiapas are covered
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undefined:undefinedfor the first time
46:00like I'm properly in
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46:20There's now fewer
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undefined:undefinedamongst 100ft trees,
47:44suddenly you just find these
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undefined:undefineda secret kingdom.
48:07We have stumbled into
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undefined:undefinedcivilisation is only now being
49:00fully revealed.
49:02Archaeologists are using
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undefined:undefinedhuman civilisations in our history?
49:45Hold on a second!
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undefined:undefinedaround great Maya cities could have
50:13been home to up to ten million
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undefined:undefinedclaimed he'd discovered a new world.
50:33In many ways, this was the old.
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undefined:undefinedoften, around the world, that brave
50:53European explorers
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undefined:undefinedof people living on these
51:08continents, often in hugely
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undefined:undefinedwho had no immunity against them.
51:24Some academics have estimated
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undefined:undefinedone of the greatest demographic
51:43disasters in our history.
51:48Many of those that survived,
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52:30Who's done this?
52:37It's a cheap way of clearing
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undefined:undefinedhalf century.
53:41The Lacandon lived in the rainforest
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undefined:undefinedthreat across the entire Tropics.
53:59As well as clearing for agriculture,
54:01millions of acres are taken
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undefined:undefinedand for biodiversity.
54:20The Lacandon Rainforest is
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undefined:undefinedcrossing the track, just here?
54:57What have you got? Oh,
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undefined:undefineddeforestation today.
56:37What do you think is
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undefined:undefineddone to save the environment,
58:17and us, as I discovered on
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undefined:undefinedstreets of El Salvador...
58:36Bloody scary!
58:38..and meet a team of young volunteer
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