1 00:00:00,199 --> 00:00:07,290 before hitting the road haitians have a saying for ea games whip yes in 2 00:00:07,290 --> 00:00:12,120 clear it takes courage to go cram into these minibuses or pickup 3 00:00:12,120 --> 00:00:14,690 transformed 4 00:00:15,300 --> 00:00:21,470 their old suspension shares with the passengers every unevenness of the road 5 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:37,720 for long trips Haitians have so-called luxury buses porn hits 6 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:47,739 to wear it more vanna radiator to brahal and where to grease tight brunel 7 00:00:47,739 --> 00:00:52,600 the chief mechanic gives his orders in Creole, a mixture of African dialects 8 00:00:52,600 --> 00:01:02,080 and French inherited from two centuries of colonization on the island the companies of 9 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:07,780 state transport are scarce most are private but everything works with 10 00:01:07,780 --> 00:01:16,990 few means it does not transform a truck it buys old ones from 11 00:01:16,990 --> 00:01:21,820 American school coaches [Music] 12 00:01:21,820 --> 00:01:25,579 it is a luxury service we want our customers to be able to travel 13 00:01:25,579 --> 00:01:29,000 comfortably because it's a bus it's not 14 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:33,320 a truck that's why we avoid taking coal or goats to 15 00:01:33,320 --> 00:01:37,789 on board we only accept suitcases because when we transport 16 00:01:37,789 --> 00:01:41,899 goats on the roof their urine can fall on people and that's not 17 00:01:41,899 --> 00:01:43,929 possible 18 00:01:44,110 --> 00:01:49,759 all these buses are already well over a million kilometers but brunette she 19 00:01:49,759 --> 00:01:54,130 intends to make them browse 1 or 2 small additional millions 20 00:01:54,130 --> 00:02:02,770 [Music] the departure takes place the next day at dawn 21 00:02:02,770 --> 00:02:09,069 [Music] for a long time 22 00:02:09,069 --> 00:02:14,780 Haiti was nicknamed the pearl of the West Indies but dictatorships the waters 23 00:02:14,780 --> 00:02:19,010 ragan earthquakes like the last one in 2010 which threw nearly a 24 00:02:19,010 --> 00:02:24,019 million people in the street gave him another nickname haiti the 25 00:02:24,019 --> 00:02:26,319 cursed 26 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:32,080 the country is struggling to recover its economy is almost at a standstill 27 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:43,900 [Music] on the 4000 km of its network 28 00:02:43,900 --> 00:02:49,110 road 90% is in poor condition 29 00:02:49,140 --> 00:02:57,450 my family always worries about me when I go through the mountain my god 30 00:02:57,450 --> 00:03:02,150 what's wrong with my heart i'm really tired 31 00:03:03,780 --> 00:03:09,990 the poorest grays on the roofs of trucks and buses there I'm hot I'm going 32 00:03:09,990 --> 00:03:13,550 pass out we decompose and in the sun 33 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:19,950 first country to be freed from slavery in 1804 Haitians have 34 00:03:19,950 --> 00:03:26,010 kept this strength to fight sometimes with a hope that of gold that it is 35 00:03:26,010 --> 00:03:30,830 yellow or white 36 00:03:33,310 --> 00:03:38,280 but again the country does not wear them 37 00:03:38,830 --> 00:03:43,720 there are many drivers who refuse my 16 nations is wrong because 38 00:03:43,720 --> 00:03:54,340 it's too heavy because my machines haiti the fighter is counting on the formidable 39 00:03:54,340 --> 00:03:58,700 joie de vivre of its inhabitants [Music] 40 00:03:59,310 --> 00:04:04,980 and on these voodoo gods to get up 41 00:04:05,330 --> 00:04:08,419 [Music] 42 00:04:16,329 --> 00:04:19,439 [Music] 43 00:04:21,270 --> 00:04:25,330 given the state of the roads it is better to find a seat 44 00:04:25,330 --> 00:04:31,080 in the bus before departure it's a grappling fair 45 00:04:36,310 --> 00:04:41,570 [Applause] the unlucky ones will pass by 46 00:04:41,570 --> 00:04:46,630 eight hours up finally if all goes well 47 00:04:46,630 --> 00:04:54,330 brunel the head mechanic of the trip is a bit like the guardian angel of the bus 48 00:04:54,330 --> 00:04:59,399 [Music] 49 00:05:01,350 --> 00:05:06,960 in haiti the most important instrument on board a vehicle is 50 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:11,580 [Music] roads and streets are devoid of 51 00:05:11,580 --> 00:05:18,380 road signs the horn and the only way to avoid the accident 52 00:05:19,700 --> 00:05:23,450 [Applause] 53 00:05:25,100 --> 00:05:30,140 the first 150 kilometers to gonaïves are on a beautiful road in 54 00:05:30,140 --> 00:05:35,190 bitumen the last 80 them are reduced to one 55 00:05:35,190 --> 00:05:41,570 mix of calla earth and sand 56 00:05:45,770 --> 00:05:49,070 [Music] 57 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:52,690 the road is really not good but we will try not to have an accident 58 00:05:52,690 --> 00:05:55,560 is to arrive on time 59 00:05:58,340 --> 00:06:02,800 the best would be to have no breakage on the road 60 00:06:06,850 --> 00:06:10,249 [Music] 61 00:06:11,650 --> 00:06:20,500 for four years as a clown, they have taken this road of sometimes fatal beauty 62 00:06:22,190 --> 00:06:29,639 [Music] it's difficult here I already had a 63 00:06:29,639 --> 00:06:32,389 problem in this place 64 00:06:32,580 --> 00:06:37,320 every time the truck risk the breakdown 65 00:06:40,460 --> 00:06:45,490 and this time again clooney is no exception to the rule 66 00:06:49,660 --> 00:06:53,659 [Applause] the old engine lacks power 67 00:06:53,659 --> 00:07:00,780 clooney the hold and waco to restart the antique bus 68 00:07:00,780 --> 00:07:04,669 better to know all its secrets 69 00:07:05,419 --> 00:07:16,910 this one is well kept the name to him went 70 00:07:16,910 --> 00:07:37,109 [Applause] 71 00:07:51,570 --> 00:07:55,530 there is no railway line to go to the north of the island 72 00:07:55,530 --> 00:08:00,280 and from year to year Haitians see the price of bus tickets rising in 73 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:02,610 arrow 74 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:08,780 15 euros it costs 15 euros to travel it's expensive 75 00:08:08,780 --> 00:08:12,560 yes it is expensive in addition there is no food or drink on the bus 76 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:17,409 laughs my joy there is no choice it has to 77 00:08:17,409 --> 00:08:22,749 it's theft really it's theft I can take the plane but it costs you 90 78 00:08:22,749 --> 00:08:26,459 euros is theft sir 79 00:08:27,670 --> 00:08:37,960 15 euros the trip is a quarter of the average salary here a year plus the trip 80 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:41,080 is difficult there is a lot of movement it is too hot it is 81 00:08:41,080 --> 00:08:43,620 horrible 82 00:08:44,039 --> 00:08:48,230 [Music] on the roof the price is reduced by 83 00:08:48,230 --> 00:08:54,620 half as the comfort but not sure that in the cabin passengers are better 84 00:08:54,620 --> 00:08:56,890 lotis 85 00:08:56,990 --> 00:09:01,220 on arrival you are always in pain somewhere you are tired and you need 86 00:09:01,220 --> 00:09:04,640 always two or three days, however, postpone all this because there is no 87 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:06,910 road 88 00:09:10,270 --> 00:09:15,830 the underlayers do not tire that men all along the journey them 89 00:09:15,830 --> 00:09:19,810 many castaways on the edge of the runway 90 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:32,750 look you have a broken down truck here 91 00:09:36,860 --> 00:09:43,330 the fans come from the engines but more often it is the tires that burst 92 00:09:45,680 --> 00:09:52,270 is linked to garages on the road not and are far 93 00:09:56,040 --> 00:10:00,999 there too it is down [Music] 94 00:10:01,420 --> 00:10:03,810 again 95 00:10:06,230 --> 00:10:13,370 it is a motorcycle-taxi the most economical way to travel but here it is 3 out of 96 00:10:13,370 --> 00:10:20,420 the two wheels the tires do not withstand the bumps of the road and how many 97 00:10:20,420 --> 00:10:25,330 time you pump about 20 minutes 98 00:10:25,900 --> 00:10:30,220 I rolled on a pebble and I had a puncture 99 00:10:31,060 --> 00:10:35,380 it's okay that should make her do it 100 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:43,159 [Music] 101 00:10:45,730 --> 00:10:48,960 [Music] 102 00:10:54,319 --> 00:11:00,499 in haiti quarrels rhyme with survival 103 00:11:04,450 --> 00:11:10,060 in this makeshift garage run by an orphan from the 2010 earthquake 104 00:11:10,060 --> 00:11:14,510 the young man would have through the inner tubes with an ingenious sound system 105 00:11:14,510 --> 00:11:20,690 invention I scratch the rubber scratch it 106 00:11:20,690 --> 00:11:24,790 so that it adheres better when I glue the other piece in order to plug the hole 107 00:11:24,790 --> 00:11:31,640 it's for my bike I rode on a pebble and I had a puncture it's been seven years 108 00:11:31,640 --> 00:11:41,150 that I started and I still do this job all the genius of this boy lies 109 00:11:41,150 --> 00:11:46,370 in its repair process on the island alcohol is often too expensive or of 110 00:11:46,370 --> 00:11:50,600 poor quality so he made this machine for 111 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:53,110 replace it 112 00:11:55,500 --> 00:12:00,570 with the heat the pieces of rubber will merge we have 113 00:12:00,570 --> 00:12:03,210 patches but it's not good to use that if you 114 00:12:03,210 --> 00:12:07,760 does it with glue the guy leaves but it does not hold it is better to heat 115 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:13,160 I invented them and then I gave the concept to everyone 116 00:12:18,499 --> 00:12:30,169 and we do it to pay for our uniforms and school stuff in the 117 00:12:30,169 --> 00:12:32,749 countries four in 10 children live in the 118 00:12:32,749 --> 00:12:35,109 poverty 119 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:41,020 the end often pushes them towards danger 120 00:13:02,379 --> 00:13:06,949 when he runs he tries to hit the truck and I slow down to avoid 121 00:13:06,949 --> 00:13:09,160 the accident 122 00:13:09,379 --> 00:13:13,179 so said to remove their hands because it's dangerous 123 00:13:15,649 --> 00:13:18,910 it happens that children get run over 124 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:23,720 parents have little work just to find food it's difficult 125 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:27,380 children are forced to ask trucks for food or money 126 00:13:27,380 --> 00:13:30,980 who pass please give there are many children like that without 127 00:13:30,980 --> 00:13:34,820 parents they have parents but nobody works 128 00:13:34,820 --> 00:13:39,850 there is no water nothing to eat nothing at all they have to beg 129 00:13:39,850 --> 00:13:47,210 they are forcing three quarters of Haitian families live on less than 130 00:13:47,210 --> 00:13:49,840 2 euros per day 131 00:13:52,020 --> 00:13:56,860 on this island where two centuries ago the end of slavery was conquered by 132 00:13:56,860 --> 00:14:02,050 fight my job at any age until the end of 133 00:14:02,050 --> 00:14:04,500 his existence 134 00:14:04,560 --> 00:14:08,500 [Music] 135 00:14:11,300 --> 00:14:15,690 [Music] is wood 136 00:14:15,690 --> 00:14:26,200 I make my charcoal with we cut wood we put it in a pile we put in 137 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:29,580 straw we put earth on top of it and set it on fire 138 00:14:29,580 --> 00:14:33,390 the coal is sold at port to the prince or to saint marc 139 00:14:33,390 --> 00:14:38,410 I manage to sell it for 10 euros but soon I don't know if there will be enough 140 00:14:38,410 --> 00:14:43,590 trees to go on and I don't know what else to do 141 00:14:43,830 --> 00:14:49,300 joseph at 65, forty years old, chopping wood like the majority of the inhabitants 142 00:14:49,300 --> 00:14:51,870 from haiti 143 00:14:52,449 --> 00:14:56,839 charcoal has always been the only way to fuel the fires of 144 00:14:56,839 --> 00:15:06,680 kitchens consequences without any other source of energy 98% of Haitian efforts have 145 00:15:06,680 --> 00:15:09,160 faded away 146 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:22,139 [Music] 147 00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:30,160 I'm disappointed too bad there is not a lot of coal 148 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:34,900 I will have to sell it for 5 euros this one 149 00:15:46,940 --> 00:16:03,070 on the way 20 kg of coal which over the 5 km of roads 150 00:16:03,070 --> 00:16:09,980 under a heat exceeding 40 ° will quickly weigh three times on the back of the old 151 00:16:09,980 --> 00:16:12,070 man 152 00:16:13,170 --> 00:16:20,200 [Music] like all the inhabitants of the region 153 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:24,260 joseph will sell his coal to wholesalers which passes twice by 154 00:16:24,260 --> 00:16:27,010 week in his village 155 00:16:35,630 --> 00:16:42,610 [Music] 156 00:16:42,750 --> 00:16:49,959 basel a bit of a bad road makele the coalman does not yet have the means to 157 00:16:49,959 --> 00:16:57,370 to pay for a truck while waiting he rents it and fo stabilized it he jumps 158 00:16:57,370 --> 00:17:01,769 above to pack them well, we have to embark as much as possible, it was 159 00:17:01,769 --> 00:17:07,140 normaction you have the goods do not go too high and the tang truck - 160 00:17:07,140 --> 00:17:12,850 that's why they jump on it I can put 300 bags but there I think 161 00:17:12,850 --> 00:17:27,490 that I will only have 250 at the moment it's difficult to have much more 162 00:17:27,490 --> 00:17:32,289 coal we sometimes take other cargoes take foodstuffs 163 00:17:32,289 --> 00:17:35,520 food we can also embark people 164 00:17:35,520 --> 00:17:40,080 because when the buses are full it is really the only means of transport 165 00:17:40,080 --> 00:17:46,049 suddenly people are forced to get into our lorries truck lifts 166 00:17:49,279 --> 00:17:56,789 90% of Lille regroups Catholics and Protestants but the centuries have 167 00:17:56,789 --> 00:18:03,510 not erased the old gods and the skin not before each trip I invoke them 168 00:18:03,510 --> 00:18:09,299 spirits for the road the ends what you have to do 169 00:18:09,299 --> 00:18:14,419 you have to do it in the light especially not in the dark 170 00:18:15,420 --> 00:18:20,610 [Music] I'm a mystic and I need god 171 00:18:20,610 --> 00:18:30,000 my companion during my trip is so that everything happens of course her 172 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:35,460 hotel jesus mixes with voodoo worship introduced by slaves from 173 00:18:35,460 --> 00:18:44,700 nigeria and benign times and magic do more than one it makes me jump its 174 00:18:44,700 --> 00:18:51,630 thibault who held his car team we will support the young people + does not send 175 00:18:51,630 --> 00:19:04,100 assistant added 176 00:19:05,410 --> 00:19:08,410 yeah 177 00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:25,390 what is it the pineapple cinnamon and rum cseries this table is not there for 178 00:19:25,390 --> 00:19:28,740 the evil she is there for the good 179 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:34,670 in addition to mac coal and embeds them four passengers 180 00:19:43,230 --> 00:19:46,440 [Applause] 181 00:19:47,080 --> 00:19:52,600 direction gonaïves 80 kilometers of a tiring road 182 00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:58,150 sometimes it takes them two days to go through them 183 00:20:09,010 --> 00:20:14,680 look there you have an animal on the road it's dangerous 184 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:18,740 for example if the animal is crossing 185 00:20:18,740 --> 00:20:24,080 and if the owner is not there to take it off the road as a 186 00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:28,610 driver I can not go fast and it is 187 00:20:28,610 --> 00:20:34,370 dangerous go ahead go ahead its owner is 188 00:20:34,370 --> 00:20:39,560 not there so you have to slow down and if you don't have good brakes you can't 189 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:45,400 not stop and therefore is forced to have an accident 190 00:20:51,450 --> 00:20:54,670 [Applause] 191 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:03,910 over the kilometers the difficulties increase 192 00:21:03,910 --> 00:21:08,700 [Applause] the sand and the earth end up 193 00:21:08,700 --> 00:21:15,380 give way to a rocky track cutting like a razor wire 194 00:21:15,500 --> 00:21:20,710 because of the stones I always go down on this part of the road 195 00:21:20,710 --> 00:21:25,420 the more stone is this block in the wheels 196 00:21:25,660 --> 00:21:30,260 it's sharp stone can steal nearly four months salary a 197 00:21:30,260 --> 00:21:32,740 makelele 198 00:21:36,130 --> 00:21:39,960 when you buy a tire it costs 600 euros 199 00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:44,110 and given the state of the roads a wrong maneuver and boom 200 00:21:44,110 --> 00:21:48,840 so don't bust me and you lose all your money 201 00:21:51,940 --> 00:22:00,920 [Music] at the other end of the track 202 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:05,570 the passengers of the bus and brunel the chief mechanic know something about it 203 00:22:05,570 --> 00:22:09,590 a rear tire and ap 204 00:22:13,570 --> 00:22:18,880 come on [Applause] 205 00:22:18,990 --> 00:22:21,350 to him 206 00:22:34,490 --> 00:22:46,600 [Music] its good boils 207 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:50,900 [Music] it's been a long time since the jack 208 00:22:50,900 --> 00:22:55,510 original disappeared for her replace it with that of a car 209 00:22:55,510 --> 00:22:59,950 not sure they can withstand the weight of the bus 210 00:23:00,500 --> 00:23:09,369 [Music] of course it's very physical 211 00:23:09,369 --> 00:23:15,759 we lower the spare tire from the roof after we remove the punctured tire then we 212 00:23:15,759 --> 00:23:21,549 rises again despite the tremors the heat forced them to halt 213 00:23:21,549 --> 00:23:28,299 no passenger complains although a sling wind begins to blow I 214 00:23:28,299 --> 00:23:33,279 makes the trip often because I am a hot water seller there and back 215 00:23:33,279 --> 00:23:39,519 I made the trip four to five times a month and once it took two days 216 00:23:39,519 --> 00:23:42,039 to make the road how can we work in these 217 00:23:42,039 --> 00:23:47,080 conditions I am 36 years old and I started taking this route for ten years and 218 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:57,639 it is always like that already five hours that they left port-au-prince and the 219 00:23:57,639 --> 00:24:00,869 trip is far from over 220 00:24:01,950 --> 00:24:11,490 [Applause] on the bus lane of the trucks we 221 00:24:11,490 --> 00:24:14,120 progresses in slow motion 222 00:24:17,210 --> 00:24:23,850 that's why I ride in first or second max it avoids you excess 223 00:24:23,850 --> 00:24:30,330 of speed we cannot drive normally at this pace I just 224 00:24:30,330 --> 00:24:34,030 the impression of sleeping you do not hurry on these roads 225 00:24:34,030 --> 00:24:37,089 [Music] 226 00:24:41,380 --> 00:24:47,410 haiti means land of high mountain the highest of the passes calls the 227 00:24:47,410 --> 00:24:54,180 2600 m but these ravines are deep enough to swallow the drivers 228 00:24:55,300 --> 00:25:01,400 there is a bend called corn curve there was a driver he was doing 229 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:06,020 the road for the first time with a truck full of corn he had to 230 00:25:06,020 --> 00:25:11,180 bring to bombardopolis he was accompanied by his child to whom he 231 00:25:11,180 --> 00:25:16,670 wanted to show the city around the bend he had an accident and his child is 232 00:25:16,670 --> 00:25:19,520 deceased that's why we call this bend 233 00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:25,090 courbet corn and you still have a lot of trucks that have accidents here 234 00:25:25,090 --> 00:25:28,790 courbis here it is, it's a hairpin bend 235 00:25:28,790 --> 00:25:32,079 [Music] 236 00:25:36,710 --> 00:25:39,829 [Music] 237 00:25:45,539 --> 00:25:54,450 at the exit of corn curve a dreaded situation and by makelele we are loaded and 238 00:25:54,450 --> 00:25:58,739 we go down so we can't go back he can go back so he lets us 239 00:25:58,739 --> 00:26:01,039 pass 240 00:26:12,590 --> 00:26:16,810 [Applause] and 241 00:26:16,810 --> 00:26:22,220 [Applause] the heat quickly makes you forget the raves 242 00:26:22,220 --> 00:26:28,790 years to the passengers seated on the roof the sun slowly cooks them under 45 243 00:26:28,790 --> 00:26:34,780 degrees oh there I'm hot I'm going to faint we can decompose in the sun 244 00:26:34,780 --> 00:26:40,250 but it's the only way i travel and i don't have enough money to take 245 00:26:40,250 --> 00:26:46,720 the bus how much you paid 8 euros 246 00:26:52,500 --> 00:27:13,740 these rutted tracks paralyzes the country economically in the salt marshes 247 00:27:13,740 --> 00:27:20,160 these women are hit with a triple penalty collect the salt is not profitable 248 00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:24,860 work is so grueling that it scares men away most of the time 249 00:27:24,860 --> 00:27:29,280 and the most incomprehensible truckers refuse to come 250 00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:43,440 until her lilou there are many drivers who refuse moncel because 251 00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:50,370 it's too heavy and it breaks the machines in this region there is no 252 00:27:50,370 --> 00:27:58,350 a lot of road it's even harder to sell the only way for her to 253 00:27:58,350 --> 00:28:04,370 sell their produce and transport it on donkeys to the city 254 00:28:04,610 --> 00:28:07,809 two days of forced march 255 00:28:11,270 --> 00:28:15,280 these women barely earn enough to feed their families 256 00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:20,110 [Music] a ton of salt barely earns them 257 00:28:20,110 --> 00:28:25,620 24 euros [Music] 258 00:28:25,620 --> 00:28:28,960 from the bottom of their marshes as if to taunt them they see 259 00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:32,550 buses and trucks crisscrossing the track 260 00:28:32,550 --> 00:28:35,680 [Music] 261 00:28:38,050 --> 00:28:41,490 [Music] 262 00:28:51,580 --> 00:28:57,690 [Music] in the middle of the mountains makele the coalman 263 00:28:57,690 --> 00:29:03,450 cross the brunel bus and its 60 passengers 264 00:29:06,850 --> 00:29:10,109 [Music] 265 00:29:27,450 --> 00:29:33,290 [Music] as soon as we arrive in the mountains we have 266 00:29:33,290 --> 00:29:39,100 fear there are dreams left to right it's normal that we are afraid 267 00:29:39,100 --> 00:29:43,679 my family always worries about me when I go through the mountain 268 00:29:48,490 --> 00:29:55,470 [Music] [Applause] 269 00:29:55,470 --> 00:30:00,700 the roads are bad I think the accident that has already had and then I 270 00:30:00,700 --> 00:30:03,570 afraid of not arriving on time 271 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:06,839 [Music] 272 00:30:10,950 --> 00:30:16,210 the state of the roads is not due to chance on the list of the most corrupt countries 273 00:30:16,210 --> 00:30:21,240 of the american continent haiti prances in the lead 274 00:30:21,850 --> 00:30:25,060 [Music] 275 00:30:33,270 --> 00:30:37,730 go to employees 276 00:30:38,890 --> 00:30:48,849 [Music] 277 00:30:51,990 --> 00:31:00,060 on board the old suspensions are gradually getting the better of the passengers 278 00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:05,070 and their luggage 279 00:31:20,020 --> 00:31:22,580 meroe roof of the world 280 00:31:22,580 --> 00:31:24,850 me I 281 00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:41,660 Brunel gets angry with the roof passengers according to him since they pay half 282 00:31:41,660 --> 00:31:48,460 price he could at least have been careful it does not happen often 283 00:31:48,460 --> 00:31:54,550 we will restart soon I think it is due to the vibrations 284 00:31:54,550 --> 00:32:06,110 [Music] only an hour later is 285 00:32:06,110 --> 00:32:10,570 now the engine's turn to show signs of weakness 286 00:32:10,650 --> 00:32:18,360 it heats up inside so the heat starts to rise without 287 00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:22,430 air conditioning tight against each other 288 00:32:22,430 --> 00:32:31,350 the thermometer is close to 40 degrees this last jolt explodes the 289 00:32:31,350 --> 00:32:38,630 tensions fund travelers attack brunel and his antique bus 290 00:32:41,490 --> 00:32:45,499 [Applause] 291 00:33:35,660 --> 00:33:38,270 [Applause] [Music] 292 00:33:38,270 --> 00:33:44,100 in order to calm the spirits one she decides to make a stop in the des 293 00:33:44,100 --> 00:33:47,210 rare supply points 294 00:33:53,310 --> 00:33:57,719 [Applause] [Music] 295 00:34:00,669 --> 00:34:03,669 no 296 00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:12,409 barely enough time to swallow a roger fry [Music] 297 00:34:12,409 --> 00:34:24,830 and brunel sounds the reminder, peace binds again on the faces 298 00:34:30,090 --> 00:34:44,420 [Music] 299 00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:56,810 [Music] it 300 00:34:59,840 --> 00:35:04,349 [Music] today brunel and his conductor have 301 00:35:04,349 --> 00:35:10,619 achieved a small feat they took only 12 hours to 302 00:35:10,619 --> 00:35:13,250 reach their destination 303 00:35:17,240 --> 00:35:20,300 [Music] 304 00:35:22,530 --> 00:35:28,470 after 48 hours of rest they will leave for port au prince 305 00:35:28,470 --> 00:35:31,580 [Music] 306 00:35:33,549 --> 00:35:37,519 it is on the beaches of mole saint nicolas that landed for the 307 00:35:37,519 --> 00:35:44,950 first time on the island in 1492 christophe colomb and it's conquistadors 308 00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:57,740 Haiti was quickly conquered and immediately plundered of its wealth as in 309 00:35:57,740 --> 00:36:06,380 north-west of the island where the coup's gold mines are located and despite the 310 00:36:06,380 --> 00:36:11,559 appearances the coue is not a village like the others 311 00:36:22,490 --> 00:36:26,380 its basement is a real Gruyère cheese 312 00:36:38,390 --> 00:36:44,680 all day long the villagers dig galleries in search of gold 313 00:36:45,130 --> 00:36:49,480 twenty meters of descent on makeshift ladders 314 00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:57,450 [Music] better to be flexible the galleries do 315 00:36:57,450 --> 00:37:00,440 barely a meter tall 316 00:37:02,310 --> 00:37:09,089 [Music] be koala my right leg tried to 317 00:37:09,089 --> 00:37:29,300 better our wc sex symbol increases to 318 00:37:38,180 --> 00:37:44,130 each pickaxe to bring it big but also cost them their lives. 319 00:37:44,130 --> 00:37:50,720 galleries are not supported at all times the walls may collapse 320 00:37:54,800 --> 00:38:01,410 underground it's over 40 degrees the miners come back to breathe fresh air 321 00:38:01,410 --> 00:38:04,010 every two hours 322 00:38:21,070 --> 00:38:24,700 jean françois is the boss of this mine 323 00:38:24,700 --> 00:38:28,730 we start at 5 a.m. and leave around 8 p.m. 324 00:38:28,730 --> 00:38:36,230 we can go until 21h 22h May midnight sometimes and we are not tired if we have 325 00:38:36,230 --> 00:38:40,520 hungry we come out of the hole to eat then we go down that represents what then for 326 00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:45,860 it allows you to pay for school the house to buy food for everything we need 327 00:38:45,860 --> 00:38:48,070 requires 328 00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:52,490 the miners of jean-françois are paid by the bag according to the effort they 329 00:38:52,490 --> 00:38:59,750 have provided for six elliott this fight if it's all a peak program 330 00:38:59,750 --> 00:39:07,760 but also for you all the people here are workers you dig turin 5 331 00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:11,690 minimum but afterwards if you do not find anything in your bag you have wasted your day 332 00:39:11,690 --> 00:39:16,780 if you have worked for free if we find nothing it's really bad luck 333 00:39:16,780 --> 00:39:20,290 that's how we work 334 00:39:22,860 --> 00:39:26,070 as in the salt marshes women work as much as men 335 00:39:26,070 --> 00:39:33,620 all day she wades through the mud sifting through the earth of the Djema mine 336 00:39:33,620 --> 00:40:00,210 arrives with her husband's day production the new battle to win her 337 00:40:00,210 --> 00:40:02,910 life is difficult there is a lot of misery for us and 338 00:40:02,910 --> 00:40:09,360 kids and you see she cleans once and then after she will do it again 339 00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:13,590 a second time to be sure we are looking for we are looking 340 00:40:13,590 --> 00:40:27,110 yes [Music] 341 00:40:32,700 --> 00:40:38,320 at the end of the day two small figures come to lend a hand 342 00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:49,519 [Music] I saw at what age 17 and you 343 00:40:49,519 --> 00:40:52,730 how old am I ten years old me I am 14 years old and you 344 00:40:52,730 --> 00:40:57,410 do this every day yes so here is the equation has no school 345 00:40:57,410 --> 00:41:06,019 we come here and we work going so new it's not that we like 346 00:41:06,019 --> 00:41:09,999 do that but we don't really have a choice 347 00:41:16,730 --> 00:41:22,119 their dream would of course be to find a nugget 348 00:41:22,869 --> 00:41:31,160 but most of the time this is what she finds gold gold look 349 00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:37,489 a tiny payet seldom more one does not find easily 350 00:41:37,489 --> 00:41:45,739 it's complicated and what does it do to you to have found gold well i am 351 00:41:45,739 --> 00:41:49,119 happy when I manage to find some 352 00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:58,130 that day djema and in a good mood she will sell her gold once a 353 00:41:58,130 --> 00:42:02,180 week a trader buys the production of the miners 354 00:42:02,180 --> 00:42:19,710 she hopes to get a good price to buy a beast at the market in this 355 00:42:19,710 --> 00:42:28,920 piece of fabric four days of work requires it is 356 00:42:28,920 --> 00:43:05,430 at home and him have removed a little things at the rise rigaud 0.2 grams 357 00:43:05,430 --> 00:43:10,440 gold every four days is the average of jemaa at this rate 358 00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:23,790 it will take 14 years to extract a kilo of gold, even the mining bosses 359 00:43:23,790 --> 00:43:30,390 as jean-françois earns their lives very badly, this water hole serves as a room 360 00:43:30,390 --> 00:43:32,960 common bath 361 00:43:32,990 --> 00:43:37,560 my everyone always comes after work even if we finish at midnight we 362 00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:52,320 comes 1h 2h in the morning we come alone luxury jean-françois has a kitchen itself 363 00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:54,260 if it is built from odds and ends 364 00:43:54,260 --> 00:43:58,220 it's still an extra room 365 00:44:00,430 --> 00:44:08,020 his wife cooks the same menu of split pea soup every day and laughs 366 00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:14,210 sometimes I am afraid but I resign myself because it is in the mine that he must earn his 367 00:44:14,210 --> 00:44:20,710 life but I would like him to do something else 368 00:44:27,109 --> 00:44:30,589 yet in these pages I did not find any other work there was a 369 00:44:30,589 --> 00:44:37,160 easier work I will do it Jean-François to this child he hopes 370 00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:40,720 that at least 1 will escape the curse of mine 371 00:44:40,720 --> 00:44:55,440 [Music] 372 00:45:00,370 --> 00:45:05,650 this year the rainy season is late 373 00:45:08,350 --> 00:45:15,320 for weeks the weather had never been so threatening makele sound 374 00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:18,940 coal load has now been rolling for almost six hours 375 00:45:18,940 --> 00:45:26,200 they still have to cover 20 km, perhaps the most difficult 376 00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:41,380 Yes 377 00:45:42,039 --> 00:45:46,459 when it rains on dirt roads like that it's more difficult to 378 00:45:46,459 --> 00:45:54,459 driving trucks can slip very easily or get stuck 379 00:45:55,479 --> 00:46:00,229 on the dumpster the passengers found refuge under an old base all 380 00:46:00,229 --> 00:46:02,499 gap 381 00:46:17,589 --> 00:46:20,589 me 382 00:46:24,349 --> 00:46:28,500 we are under the tarpaulin we are wet we are not under the tarpaulin 383 00:46:28,500 --> 00:46:31,309 we are wet anyway 384 00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:35,280 [Music] 385 00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:42,329 Haiti is one of the cities of the American continent most affected by 386 00:46:42,329 --> 00:46:46,020 climatic catastrophes [Music] 387 00:46:46,020 --> 00:46:52,190 every year nearly twelve tropical storms devastate everything in their path 388 00:46:52,580 --> 00:46:56,230 not to mention hurricanes and cyclones 389 00:46:56,230 --> 00:46:59,060 [Music] oh 390 00:47:10,299 --> 00:47:13,589 do not make fun of it 391 00:47:15,720 --> 00:47:20,440 [Music] the cars don't pass they don't 392 00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:24,809 not enough power when it rains like that the flood can 393 00:47:24,809 --> 00:47:29,960 take people motorcycles and even small cars 394 00:47:30,630 --> 00:47:33,140 come on pass 395 00:47:38,850 --> 00:47:45,070 the voodoo priors of makelele have been answered, he arrives in gonaïves without 396 00:47:45,070 --> 00:48:06,570 we left at noon and we arrived at 7 pm it took seven hours 397 00:48:06,570 --> 00:48:11,230 of course I'm very happy to have arrived it was a tiring road on 398 00:48:11,230 --> 00:48:16,120 bourdieu granny safe and sound and I'm happy even if the Haitians nickname 399 00:48:16,120 --> 00:48:21,130 when he hates the damn they keep their incredible strength 400 00:48:21,130 --> 00:48:23,550 to live 401 00:48:25,050 --> 00:48:29,149 [Music]