Bad Bunny - El Apagon Aqui Vive Gente (with Lyrics & Subtitles)
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Bad Bunny - El Apagon Aqui Vive Gente (en) Lyrics
They're displacing native
Puerto Ricans.
-Yes.
-Absolutely.
With the famous 30-day notice letter
that asks us to leave.
And now, where do I go?
What if they charge me over there
something I can't pay?
There are big economic
interests at play.
And it's going on in
all of Puerto Rico.
We'll be foreigners in our own land.
We must organize, ma'am.
Because when those below move,
those above come tumbling down.
Come on now! Less talking
and more eating!
Help yourselves, you're my guests.
I haven't had this in a while.
God bless this flavor.
Amen!
This is Puerto Rico.
But life here isn't the
same for everyone.
Some arrive with advantages
and benefits.
And some have been here forever
and are now feeling displaced.
And take away what belongs to them.
But there are also those who
created these conditions.
And those who hold the power
to change them.
PEOPLE LIVE HERE
Story by Bianca Graulau
They left this at my door.
"You must vacate and deliver these
facilities within thirty days.
Thank you for your time here.
We wish you the best."
Maricusa came to Puerto Rico from
the Dominican Republic
in the 1990s.
I clean, I cook, I wash clothes,
I iron them.
Everything related to housekeeping...
Count on me because I like
and enjoy what I do.
She's been renting this apartment in
Santurce for almost 26 years.
My daughter used to sleep here with
her youngest son, Christopher.
But in May, she received a letter
telling her to leave
because the building had a new owner.
I said, "I'm leaving whenever
I find another place
where I can keep what I need
and send my things."
And in other words, he said,
"You have so many things here.
Just throw them away,"
as a way of pressuring me
to leave immediately.
What I was paying
wasn't enough for them to cover costs,
and me staying here
was causing them to lose money.
If I'm paying 600 and some crazy person
comes and offers 2,500...
He said this was going to
be rented for $2,500.
The average monthly income of
a Puerto Rican household
is less than $1,800.
They're displacing Puerto Ricans
to get rich with what's from here,
with what's native from here.
The new owners of the building
where Maricusa lives
are a company that buys and
resells properties.
And they're already reselling
it at 1.5 million dollars.
The ad says they only
accept cash offers.
And that tenants can
vacate in 30 days.
It's abusive.
I'm already 68.
There are people much older than me
who have spent half of their lives
or half a century here.
Throwing them away with
no repercussions...
It hurts.
This is the neighborhood
where I was born
The little corner where
I used to live...
My great-great-grandmother,
my great-grandmother,
my grandmother, my mom, and myself,
were born here, as were my kids.
I always say that because I was
born in Puerta de Tierra,
I want to die in Puerta de Tierra.
The neighborhood of Puerta de
Tierra is the entrance to
the inlet of San Juan.
It's where the Puerto Rico
Capitol is located,
next to famous Old San Juan.
As you see, we're in front
of the San Juan Bay.
It's a privileged place, it's
a treasure for millionaires
and rich people.
But this wasn't always
a coveted place.
Enslaved people lived
in Puerta de Tierra
after obtaining their liberty
because the high classes wanted
to keep them outside the
city walls of San Juan.
Eventually, those slums became
public housing projects.
But in the past two decades, the
government of Puerto Rico
has torn down a thousand
public housing units
for low-income families.
Where are we now? How's
this place called?
This is Condominio Las Acacias,
in Puerta de Tierra.
Where I was raised.
Public housing projects are the
heart of Puerta de Tierra.
If they remove us, Puerta
de Tierra will die.
If they remove the housing projects,
Puerta de Tierra will die.
I lived there. For 54 years,
I lived on that corner.
Look at it now: a building, a new
housing project for the rich.
I was born there, and
I can't go in there.
Because we're Black and poor they're
abusing us, you know?
And it isn't fair to be displaced
by economic interests.
They want us to leave.
No, we were born here. They are
the ones that should leave.
The only thing those millionaire
investors have done for us
is rocking us to sleep.
Rock-a-bye, baby
On the tree top
We'll soon throw you out
Of your community
I used to live over there. Down
the corridor to the right.
Laura Mía González lived in this
private apartment building
until she received a notice in 2019
saying that the building had
a new owner and she had
to vacate in 30 days.
Well, at the time I felt frustrated.
Firstly, because people were living
there for almost 30 years.
When you've lived 30 years
in the same place,
you establish a relationship
with the community.
Twenty-one families had to leave
the La Ferretería building.
You can't come here with a
colonizer's mentality,
thinking that people don't live here
or that the people that did can be discarded
with an eviction letter
thinking they'll just find
some other place.
Laura Mía paid a $300 rent
for her apartment.
Today, the La Ferretería
apartment units
are short-term rentals that
cost $150 per night.
No one is saying that it isn't
a profitable business.
This is a great business,
and even more so if you
almost don't pay taxes.
Puerto Rico, where I'm from,
is becoming an increasingly
popular place to move
among wealthy Americans.
It's the tax incentives that make
Puerto Rico very appealing,
specifically Act 22.
And crucially, the island has become
a tax haven for the wealthy.
There's a law in Puerto Rico
that allows foreigners
to avoid paying certain taxes
when they move here.
It's called Act 22, which is
now a part of Act 60.
With this law, when someone
moves to Puerto Rico,
they don't pay any capital gains taxes
on things such as stocks, cryptocurrency,
or real estate.
I'm moving to Puerto Rico!
It's like the only place you can live
with zero percent capital gains.
There are more than three thousand
people benefiting from that law.
These benefits, compounded with
the low property prizes
after Hurricane Maria,
are an opportunity for some.
Puerto Rico!
Puerto Rico is an absolute gold mine
for real estate investing...
Oh, my gosh! The tax advantages...
Puerto Rico is the best place for
you to buy real estate in 2022.
The new owner of the La
Ferretería building
is an Act 22 beneficiary.
Chaim Meir Hazan has bought 15 properties
in Puerta de Tierra,
but he isn't the only one.
Since 2018, eight Act
22 beneficiaries
have acquired at least 28 properties
in the neighborhood.
I call them colonizing invaders
because they behave as such.
Of course, the government has
delivered the country to them
on a silver platter.
One of the 28 properties the Act
22 beneficiaries bought
used to be a public school.
My school.
I learned to read here.
I used to play here with Vico C!
Sixth grade. Miss Martínez.
She was my aunt, my mom's sister.
There. Sixth grade.
Martin G. Brumbaugh School is one
of the more than 600 schools
the government of Puerto Rico has
closed in the past ten years.
Don't close the school!
Now, this school will be an apartment
building with a sea view.
When the day ended, you could see
whales coming to give birth.
The teachers would take
us to see the show.
I get teary-eyed every
time I come by here.
I'm holding back the tears but...
Many properties bought by beneficiaries
are then dedicated to tourism.
Some scholars compare
the tourism economy
with the plantation economy.
Because the United States invaded and
took possession of Puerto Rico
by the end of the 19th century,
U.S. sugar companies were enabled
to take over the land.
They hired Puerto Ricans as workers
and paid them low wages that
kept them in poverty.
Today, Puerto Rico is still
a U.S. possession
and these incentives give
Americans an advantage
and invite them to buy properties
in Puerto Rico.
These properties frequently
become vacation rentals
under the promise of service industry
jobs for the local population.
The result is a foreign owner that
hoards all the profits.
... three words in English!
Gringo, go home!
Gringo...
Yankee, go home!
Act 20 and Act 22
will allow gringos to come here
to speculate with our lands.
This attack, which has been from
a racial point of view
or due to race or class...
It's complicated.
Simply saying, "Gringo, go home",
or those sorts of things
certainly doesn't contribute to the
country's political stability.
Rafael "Tatito" Hernández is one of
the Puerto Rican politicians
that have received donations
from Act 22 beneficiaries.
In the past three years, they have
contributed more than $240,000
to the political campaigns
of the Governor
and the leaders of the Puerto
Rico Legislature.
The Governor received the most
significant amount of money.
I'm very passionate about this issue.
I come from humble beginnings,
and I know what it is
like to go to school,
and see the communities' social situations
and their disadvantages.
But we can't stop development.
The most significant contributor to
the leading political figures
is Brian Tenenbaum.
You do Act 22, it's a no-brainer.
The person who bought the school of
the Puerta de Tierra community.
They see that the government is taking
resources away from them
and serving them on a silver platter
to people with a lot of money.
Don't you see it that way?
Yes. Of course.
Puerta de Tierra is a case...
If you analyze it and have seen the community
throughout many years...
It's been in shambles for 40 years.
So this is how they're renovating,
in some way or another,
an area that was truly in a
very pressing situation.
It still is.
This is an issue of supply and demand.
Many people selling to these
investors are from the
community themselves.
But it's not just housing and schools,
another resource at risk are
Puerto Rican beaches.
According to law, all beaches
in Puerto Rico are public.
But some believe they are being
taken away from the people
by construction sites.
Or that entrances are being
closed, like in Dorado.
Dorado hosts beachfront mansions
and luxury hotels.
According to law, there must
be multiple entrances
through those private terrains
to allow people to get to the coast.
But in recent years, they
have been closed.
Now the only entrance available
is through the public beach.
If we want to get to that beach
over there we have to
walk all the way there?
All the way there.
There's no other entrance.
Rosa Rivera Martínez works as a house
cleaner in Dorado Beach.
I think that where I work I do a
bit more than just cleaning.
I give a little bit of
that flavor of...
But during her off days, Rosa
doesn't have an easy way
to access the beach her
employers enjoy.
When you're not working, how
do you get to that beach?
I'd have to start walking from here.
Rosa and I started the long path
to try to get to the beach
known as "West Beach."
Some people say,
"There are so many beaches
in Puerto Rico,
why do you want to go to
that specific one?"
Because they all belong to us!
And it's not that we're simply saying,
"This belongs to Puerto Ricans."
We want to share them!
On the way we encountered
Dorado Beach employees
who told us the same thing the company
later reiterated in writing:
That indeed, the beach is public
but that to get there we had
to walk through the rocks.
How is it possible for me to feel
pleased when they say to me,
"Of course you can come,
but you must pass where you'll take
a tumble and get busted up."
It mortifies me that they treat
us like we're ignorants.
Or criminals.
It's clearly them who are
breaking the law.
Rosa and I walked 1.3 miles
and climbed the first rocks.
Yes, be careful.
I slipped and now I'm scared.
-Yes, I know.
But as we got closer, the path
became more dangerous.
We wanted to get to that beach but
I think it's best if we don't
because...
-It's too risky.
The access is so hurdled
that it turns West Beach
into a private beach
for the people who buy one
of these residences
that are sold for up to
18 million dollars.
The government agency that should
defend public property,
that should defend beaches,
parks, etcetera,
is failing to do so.
Pedro Cardona Roig worked
in the government agency
that decides how lands are
used in Puerto Rico.
He says that in Dorado
there are constructions in lands
that belong to the people.
According to the agency's rules,
the 20 meters of land after
the highest tide
are public.
And those rocks are within the area
that is affected by the tide.
There's sargasso coming
right at the rocks.
So, if I climb right
now up those rocks
and I stand there, and they say,
"You can't be there, this is private
property," that's not true.
That's correct.
That over there is supposed
to be public property.
You ask why this isn't enforced.
I believe the main reason
is the power certain people
hold in Puerto Rico.
The company that built and
co-owns Dorado Beach
is called Prisa Group.
In the past decade, Prisa
Group executives
have donated more than half
a million dollars
to the political campaigns of the
two main parties in Puerto Rico.
Of those, more than 200 thousand
dollars were donated by
the company president,
Federico Stubbe Arsuaga.
If, in fact, things took a turn
and Act 22 were eliminated
for the rich and millionaires,
what happens to the Puerto
Rican economy?
Puerto Rico would turn
into a huge ghetto.
If what we want is poverty
for Puerto Rico,
then let's eliminate it.
Dorado Beach is were famous people
have bought or rented homes,
such as Logan Paul, and Brock Pierce.
They moved to Puerto Rico because
of these incentives.
Up and down!
Stubbe, go to hell!
Up and down!
Stubbe go to hell!
But the fight for the beaches isn't
happening exclusively in Dorado.
A swimming pool in front of a beach.
What's the need for that?
They're invading the turtles' habitat.
This is absolutely heartbreaking,
people.
Although it belongs to all of
us, all of the sudden,
the Sol y Playa development is saying,
"We don't care if this belongs
to the people of Puerto Rico
We want this for ourselves.
And we're building a pool there.
And we're going to put up a wall."
Protests began.
The beaches belong to the people!
And the government activated
the Police.
Protesters halted the construction.
The word got out that a cousin
of Governor Pedro Pierluisi
owned one of the apartments.
First of all, you're talking about a
third or fourth-cousin of mine.
The case went to court.
The judge determined that the construction
permit was illegal,
and that the wall should
be demolished.
When the owners didn't do it,
the protesters handled it.
Defend Puerto Rico!
Just like in Rincón,
Puerta de Tierra's people are
saying they'll resist.
If we don't fight now
and come together to fight
for our neighborhood,
it will happen not only in Puerta de
Tierra but on the entire island.
Resistance will last here
until the very end.
What do I mean by that?
I'd spill my blood for this community
and for my people.
They are the ones that should leave
This is my beach
This is my sun
This is my land
This is me
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