the recurring question when we were
guys who were born our relatives
or friends our parents and you who are going to
do when you are older
that same question when we grow
we reach adolescence we do not
ourselves in a way also
repeated distress that will be our
Life sometimes we are not aware of
small facts of small experiences
which has a 1965 thorium prize value in
the school in the schoolyard of
secondary school or less in the middle of
the morning I was going to urinate I was going to go into
the latrines and suddenly I look at the
sky and I see two planes that looked like
they chased one after the other
that still if they are approaching each time
more and more and more and more and that
I got really nervous because I thought that
they were going to crash or if I had seen many
movies and also the imagination
was flying the case that the words were
they gathered so much so much but it did not happen
nothing
They met together and got lost in the
clear horizon then I did not know
that that was a totally maneuver
routine
one year later in 1966
both go the pitcher to the source
produces the accident in dovecotes in the
Southeast of Spain
very close to here there were no two planes
Air Force America a
a tanker plane and a 52 b
collision in the maneuver of
Resupplay of fuel
and it occurs that the most of time the
of burning remains fall on the area
of pigeon houses without causing any
victim in the settlers although seven
of the crew die 4 save the
life of the accident involved the control of
instant information of what happened
because Spain was in a dictatorship
16 million tourists were expected
this year that they were going to alleviate some
forms the lack of foreign currency and the
imbalance in our balance
commercial
on the other hand it was an accident with
military implications where there was
four latest thermonuclear pumps
ultra secret generation in the middle of the
cold War
all the all means of
Spain communication were super
controlled but also the release
from abroad also then the
people from dovecotes somehow
they saw parties contradiction between what
what Spanish newspapers said and
and what they lived it began to
listen to the radio they broadcast on
Spanish from radio paris la bbc de
london or radio españa pirenaica that the
head listen right there
precisely happened in my brother
older than I was listening to a radio
Galena called me she called me because
then we jumped in a manner
chauvinist because they finally talked about
our land
this land never existed the means
of communication if it was not for an event
luctuoso his then we were in
some way very assaulted when the
sale were this province was in
all means of communication not
only national and international
in any newspaper in the world
the pigeon-hole accident involved
principle that of the four bombs
thermonuclear that kaim 3 drops three
they fell on land and one in the sea that
lost then it was found untied
those 32 exploded their load
nuclear and pollute or more than
four hundred hectares
more reason for everyone from the
principle was kept secret and not
you will come to really know how little is
gave paradox the paradox almost
surrealist that the villagers the
own neighbors of British dovecotes
they find out their reality by that
that radio but all that reality
there were already in the rest of the world
because the foreign press gave something and
anyone even up to the
antipode of new zealand australia
he knew better he knew better what
there were dovecotes that the people themselves
the neighbors themselves who had it to 20
meters in front of your home the
remains of aircraft
the years passed and we tried in the
20th anniversary make a
documentary but absolutely impossible
because silence obscurantism
continues then at the end of the century
a friend of mine finds eight hours and
film movie media
cinematographic film shot by the sailors
of the United States there are in dovecotes and
villaricos on the work of
decontamination and search for
bomb that was lost in the sea that last
80 days in that image we give ourselves
account that in those images we give ourselves
account that we could finally do
documentary although still the
secrecy regarding the accident
then we do not launch first to make a
exhibition an exhibition of
Photography photography as a document
historical and subsequently we encourage
to make a documentary feature film and
from the beginning we find ourselves with
that the information is guided every
was still hidden then we have to
dedicate me great resources time and
force to fight precisely to try
get enough documents
primary documentary sources that
will provide rigor
the work which was not trivial the
I work the effort on that in that
research exercise we’re going
realizing that the really
there really were events
incredibly unusual insult that
never suspected for example in
Dovecotes and villaricos had base
its its economy in agriculture and in
fishing respectively
villar and ccoo was a little poorer than
Dovecotes when the accident happened
both economy are paralyzed
fishing is instantly banned and
it prohibits access to fields
which meant it was contaminated
then you lived to the day they did not exist
bank did not exist ATM
the people did not even have water
current in their houses still then
if you did not work you did not eat it was a
a totally vulnerable economy
for two weeks villar ico had
hunger problems and there is the
fact that generated
generated famine was generated in famine
where the latu had no choice
to distribute food to avoid a
riot and they also had that he was going to
make a series of payments of
emergency because people did not have
income and did not eat
that simple, we also give ourselves
account that the control of
information had been terrible
surprise more because always because then
you know exaggerates that nothing happens
this is to take iron to the subject but
We noticed that the holders of
the newspapers was not deformed the
they simply invested it
it said just the opposite there is no
radioactivity there’s no reason to
worry absolute quiet in
dovecotes quiet absolute 1,700
members of the American Navy the
occupied and 34 boats off its coast
more than three thousand 200 sailors but
there was absolute tranquility according to
lopez
screaming is the case even that of
that the director of the board of
nuclear energy
jose maria otero and one more then come
to this province and it is already pigeon and
He says there is no risk or not
has contaminated nobody when not as is
known that 10% of the population gave
10% positive that there is no
absolutely no risk and fair
when he goes to madrid
he writes to his minister to depended on
Minister of Industry of Opus Dei
Augustine Lopez prau and tells him in this
letter that you see that has not been observed
no abnormality because like you
know they stayed in the place several
kilograms of plutonium without picking up there
we realize one thing is
control the information and another thing is
invest creating a real story that
nothing according to the official story that nothing
it has to do with the real story
at the end you the current moment
the years go by and you realize that
when we did we will document 40
years
now we carry 51 then the democracy that
Spain has been since 1978
well you realize that the secrecy of
1966 in a dictatorship which until
assimilable certain logical point has
maintained in a permanent way
even until today in greater or in
smaller measure say global democracy
or the values of democracy information
the right to know of the citizen the
right to access information have
closed estate for dovecotes and villa
rich in recent months Spain has
urged the United States government
to take what they left for
they have previously done an inventory
Radiological Spain
unilateral and has found that there are 4
contaminated plot with 41 hectares
the equivalent of almost one kilogram of
distinct isotopes of plutonium and
americio that were not collected left
a lot more but it’s been 50 years of
wind regime and some rains
Torrential and what I did not do the
Americans have also done it
nature that has spread it
uncontrollably
but right now apart from those four
plots in one of them there are two pits
with four thousand cubic meters
buried for that he is apple
the inventory and the radiological map has
had to be three-dimensional because
It was also in the subsoil in
negotiations between the two countries
has reached an agreement that involves leaving
in one of the plots the plot that
It is in sierra almagrera next to
villaricos in the biggest blackjack
I will be at levels of contamination
unacceptable waste today that
They assume that somehow supposed
permanence of the stigma estimates that
damaged dovecot economy based
in agriculture and right now in the
tourism because as you know
radioactivity in the worst of the
advertising that there is so much for the
agriculture as for tourism is done
if there is no scientific evidence of a
damage to health but yes yes
there is and quantifiable damage that is
has produced for 51 years that nobody
has compensated them and now they want to leave
a plot of 20 and one hectare with
with very high levels
and is that the story seems to be
repeat what we had studied in
the history books that never
we finish understanding the meaning
cyclical history
now we realize and I left a
thinker neither fashionable today as
meat
that history repeats twice the
first as a tragedy and the second as
farce
now in the twenty-first century our
Government has agreed with the United States
a new force like in 1966 or
involuntarily past there and
while investigating or and
team the team that we form at the same
time that we investigated historically
we have to be fighting for the
factual information is given the
circumstance the anecdote that each
of every ten document that we got
is that we get united states has
got forgiveness of ten
documents 10-9 we got it has been
united and one in Spain many of those
nine were Spanish
we have to get the documents
Spaniards in the United States because
here we are practically the same as
dovecotes as in 1966
I think the struggle for the
information for citizen access
denotes the level of democracy that
we have which is quite discouraging
the conclusions that arrived that that
we have to keep fighting all because
that report because the health of the
democracy depends a lot on that of the
institutional transparency to avoid
cases of corruption like those that have not
surrounded lately or for this is the
issue of preventing it from being
a farce a partial decontamination
Palomares gives the same as we struggle to
at the group level or at the individual level because
already said a writer josé hernández
Argentine in the gaucho martín fierro
that even the thinnest hair does
shadow on the ground since our fight
has value even if they are at a
individual
now I look back
from those airplanes that were gathering in
instead of providing certainty, he contributed doubt
how much my life
my life has gone through certain
path and what percentage has been my
will my free will that has
marked or what percentage has been the
circumstances
els the strength of destiny fate
what has marked it
thank you very much
[Applause]
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