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00:00The image is shocking and believe me, there is nothing mystical, it is not a river of blood, it is a super contaminated stream.
00:06It is as simple as contamination.
00:09Can you identify where the contamination that causes this color in the waters comes from?
00:14Look at it.
00:14The image is eloquent.
00:29In its 20 kilometers long, the Sarandí stream, which is 80% clogged, receives the contamination of at least 14,000 industries.
00:41Observe how its mouth looks at the height of Avellaneda in front of the Rio de la Plata.
00:47We have been denouncing the Ministry of the Environment, Alacumar, and that happens every day.
00:52The company is in terrible condition, it is there.
00:55They harm our health, our breathing, things come out of our skin, the animals die, and they cover this company.
01:03What does this company do?
01:05The company is dedicated to special and dangerous waste.
01:09It is a 1993 industry.
01:11What health problems do you carry on a daily basis?
01:14The odors decompose you, they make you sick because they make you dizzy, they make you itch in the throat, in the lips.
01:22How do you feel now?
01:23I go to the hospital in Huilde and you know what the doctors tell you?
01:26What's wrong with the mayor of Avellaneda, who has the power of closure and does nothing?
01:32Keep making denunciations, keep making denunciations.
01:36Because there are many neighbors that we make, we move, we are organized neighbors.
01:40And what do they tell you?
01:42You put up with a little prick and they give you Reliveran, an injection.
01:45You go decomposed, they send you on a diet.
01:52Look at this image.
01:54The Arroyo Estarandí is completely covered in red.
01:58We are a few meters from what is the Buenos Aires-La Plata highway.
02:02Almost in the mouth, in the Rio de la Plata.
02:06Where is also the Ecopark here in the Avellaneda party.
02:10Yes, Ecopark, you heard right.
02:12Look at this.
02:13It's amazing, at times it's hard to even breathe because the throat burns and also the eyes.
02:19We don't say it, those who live and work say it.
02:23Can you work like this with the Arroyo Estarandí?
02:25Impossible, you can't do it like this.
02:27All the smell, the walls there are, the chemicals, you can't.
02:30Now, it dawned dyed red, do you know where it comes from?
02:33No, since this morning I came at 5, 4 and a half and I was like this.
02:37From here to the tip of the river.
02:39Could you identify which factory?
02:41It must be the sculptures that are in the background, but nobody knows anything.
02:44Nobody says anything, as always.
02:46First time that it looks dyed red like this?
02:48Five years ago, more or less, and it's the first time that I see it like this.
02:56Freedom for the staff of the Ministry of Environment of the province of Buenos Aires
03:01trying to take samples of the water to determine what it is.
03:05Why does the Arroyo Estarandí look dyed red in this area of its channel?
03:12In the Partido de Avellaneda, look, they are with a white mameluco
03:16seeing how to get to the shore and take the sample.
03:20At times it is difficult because the margins are completely full of solid, liquid waste.
03:28It is very difficult to get close to be able to take the sample.
03:31They move forward with a vehicle of support.
03:35Do you want to know what it is?
03:37Look, for that they are going to do corresponding analysis.
03:40What would it be, at first glance?
03:42Apparently it can be a sink, but well, we will determine that later.
03:47In the future, the people of the prefecture are also working,
03:50as well as the people of the environment here in Avellaneda.
03:53Why is it dyed red?
03:55With this stain of reddish coloring that, well, we are going to take some samples to determine.
04:00Would it be a factory in the area?
04:02We do not know.
04:04And judging by our image, it is much more than a stain.
04:08It is all, all the stream dyed red.
04:11And if our chronicler's eyes and nose burned,
04:14imagine what it must be like to live in the surroundings.
04:17That's what it's about, putting a microphone on those who have no voice.
04:20Cristian Balbo, you are working in the place.
04:22The situation is critical here in Villa Inflamable, in the part of Avellaneda.
04:26Observe the color of the water.
04:28It is still dyed red in the Sarandi stream,
04:32almost in the mouth of the Rio de la Plata.
04:34In fact, the red water is already in the course of the Rio de la Plata.
04:38Observe the margins.
04:40It is still dyed red,
04:42almost in the mouth of the Rio de la Plata.
04:44In fact, the red water is already in the course of the Rio de la Plata.
04:48Observe the margins.
04:50In the Rio de la Plata, observe the margins without any kind of life,
04:54neither animal nor plant.
04:56The vegetation is completely dry
04:58in what are the margins of the Sarati stream,
05:01which is 20 kilometers long,
05:03which is born in Longchamps.
05:05But of course, 80% is intubated.
05:07And here, when it comes to show itself in the open sky,
05:09in this area, between the Buenos Aires-La Plata-Soledad highway
05:12and the Rio de la Plata,
05:14this situation is observed.
05:16At the moment, a sample of the water, dyed red,
05:20is on its way to the laboratory of the Ministry of Environment
05:24in the province of Buenos Aires,
05:26to determine what it is about.
05:28And also, the most important thing,
05:30where does it come from?
05:32Of course, that is relatively easy,
05:34because with just having a sample of the water,
05:37you will know where it comes from.
05:39Likewise, it must be said that the Rio de la Plata
05:41has a base contamination
05:43that has been quite studied.
05:45I am reading, for example,
05:47a paper from the University of Avellaneda
05:49that says that the Sarandí stream
05:51has in its bed various heavy metals,
05:53such as chromium, zinc, copper, lead, nickel.
05:55All this guarantees that there is no life inside the water.
05:59But there, at some point,
06:01a neighbor told you earlier
06:03that they made the complaint to ACUMAR.
06:05The Sarandí stream belongs to ACUMAR.
06:07Let's clarify to the people that ACUMAR
06:09is the authority of Cuenca Matanzas-Riachuelo,
06:11which is what regulates and tries to avoid
06:14for years now, the contamination in the Riachuelo.
06:17Does the Sarandí stream
06:19have to do with ACUMAR
06:21or is it directly from the province?
06:26In principle, what we know is that
06:28it responds not only to the province,
06:30but also to the nation.
06:32For years, they have been treating the water
06:34of the Riachuelo,
06:36everything that is the Cuenca Matanzas-Riachuelo,
06:38is, in some way,
06:40under the authority of ACUMAR.
06:42It has to do with their cleanliness.
06:44And there they also include the Sarandí stream.
06:46Do you know why I ask you, Cristian?
06:48Because yesterday it was known
06:50that the executive power,
06:52the government, President Javier Mille
06:54and the Ministry of Federico Sturzenegger
06:56are elaborating a new DNU
06:59to eliminate more than 50 organisms,
07:02including ACUMAR.
07:04And there will be a conflict with the judicial power
07:06because remember that this organism,
07:08ACUMAR, was formed
07:10from a fault of the Supreme Court
07:12that ordered to clean the Riachuelo.
07:14So, we have to see later
07:16who is going to clean the Riachuelo.
07:18Even if it seems not,
07:20the Riachuelo itself
07:22has improved a lot
07:24in its contamination in all these years.
07:26Now, we are seeing an aerial image
07:28Where is the stain?
07:30Tremendous!
07:32How the red water pen
07:34enters the Río de la Plata.
07:36But where is the stain?
07:38It is very difficult to think
07:40about the life of anyone
07:42who has to breathe that.
07:44How these things do not stop in time.
07:46Because a while ago
07:48the problem was the fat in the water.
07:50Obviously, there are industries
07:52that pass all their waste to the water
07:54and today it is red,
07:56tomorrow it is fat
07:58and the day after it will be something else.
08:00We have to see what is the chemical reaction
08:02that generates that red.
08:04If it is an aniline,
08:06but obviously
08:08someone has relaxed the controls
08:10and has generated
08:12this type of contamination.
08:14There on the left of the screen
08:16we are seeing what we recently showed
08:18which is in the same place
08:20a stream of fat.
08:22A layer of fat on the water.
08:2414,000 industries throw
08:26approximately their waste in the area.
08:28Cristian Balbo,
08:30this is not something
08:32that happens sporadically.
08:34This is obviously
08:36the normality. It will change color,
08:38it will change appearance,
08:40but this place is no one's land.
08:42But the most serious thing, Soledad,
08:44are the health problems
08:46that the neighbors who live
08:48on the outskirts of the Sarandí stream have.
08:50We do not say it, but Maria Ducons
08:52who has dozens of complaints presented,
08:54who is here, who suffers from cancer,
08:56who has injuries on his face
08:58and who is in this situation, already tired,
09:00tired and today they woke up.
09:02You live in front of the stream
09:04in these conditions.
09:06Yes, hello, good afternoon.
09:08Look, when we got up today
09:10we found ourselves in these conditions
09:12with the stream as you see it,
09:14you are seeing it.
09:16What are the most common health problems
09:18here of the neighbors?
09:20Many neighbors have skin problems,
09:22respiratory problems, diseases,
09:24cancer, deaths,
09:26even animals die.
09:28So, well, these are the problems
09:30not only that, apart from polluting
09:32the air, the ground and the water.
09:34You said that today it is dyed red,
09:36but other times they had other colors.
09:38What colors did you see the Sarandí stream?
09:40I saw it green, I also have photos,
09:42I saw it green, bluish, pink, half purple,
09:44half green, with fat,
09:46with cement, as if it were oil
09:48above, of all colors.
09:50Listen to what Maria says,
09:52she has her house in front of the Sarandí stream,
09:54she has already seen several colors.
09:56This is the point.
09:58This is the point, and we thank Maria
10:00for her testimony, obviously she speaks
10:02for all the neighbors.
10:04I say, here what this generates
10:06will unfortunately be seen in a few years,
10:08because that must also be taken into account.
10:10Maybe today it is that it irritates
10:12the nostrils and makes your eyes cry,
10:14but maybe that, that you are breathing,
10:16the children are breathing,
10:18the consequences are seen in a few years.
10:20It is that the failure of the Supreme Court
10:22that ordered to clean the stream,
10:24also ordered to give housing
10:26to the people who had
10:28occupied precarious areas
10:30on the banks of different places
10:32of the stream, because
10:34the place was very dangerous.
10:36The Silk Road is called.
10:38It is a distance that exists
10:40between the water and the land
10:42that has to be freed.
10:44It was occupied, but you have to give it a solution,
10:46you have to make a transfer,
10:48because you can't make deaf ears
10:50about a reality that is the one
10:52that those children live, those families
10:54Christian, the image is shocking.
10:56Thank you for this report
10:58and we'll be back in a little while.