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[ VO ] Honduras. San Pedro Sula is a city
with one of the highest crime rates in the world.

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[ Mortician ]Judging by the shell casings,
there were a lot of hits.

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[ Mortician ]There's about 8 cartridges.

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[ VO ] Gangs fight over territories.

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BANDITRY, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, AND
HUMAN TRAFFICKING ARE ON THE RISE

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[ Paulo ]In all the country, but more in this north area,
there is a lot of criminal groups.

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[ Paulo ]They control very big areas of the city.

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[ VO ]And as in any war the main victims
are the weakest – women and CHILDREN.

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[ Victim’s Father ] Sometimes decent people
who contribute to society are killed.

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IN HONDURAS, A WOMAN DIES EVERY 36 HOURS

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[ Witness ]Very very young
[ Mortician ]Very young

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CONVOYS OF MIGRANTS LEAVE
HONDURAS MANY GO MISSING

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[ VO ]Women in Honduras don’t have many options. To run…

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[ Migrant’s Mother ] They can't come back
because they've been threatened.

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[ VO ]To join a gang.

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[ Female Gang Member ] To join the gang,
I had to kill people who hadn't paid tribute.

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[ VO ]Or, if you’re strong enough, to fight and help others.

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[ Melania ] I got up the courage to come back.

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[ Melania ] These women promote change, transformation,
because you shouldn't have to leave the country.

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HONDURAN FEMICIDE

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[ Melania ] I can't look back because
bandits might notice and report it.

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[ Melania ] This is the border
between 2 gangs' territories.

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[ Melania ] There's all kinds of trouble here.

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[ Melania ] That's why I'm speaking softly.

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[ Melania ] It's dangerous here.

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[ Melania ] This is the cemetery where
our colleague's granddaughter was killed.

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[ Melania ] It hurts to remember
how we came to pick her up.

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[ Melania ] Her body was dumped here.

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[ Melania ] Her husband had left
because he owed people money,

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and they threatened to kill one of his relatives.

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MELANIA REYES
HEAD, MOMUCLAA RELIEF FUND

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[ Melania ] He escaped and, the next day,
they reported that a dead girl had been found.

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[ Melania ] She was already missing.

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[ Female Gang Member ] To join the gang,
I had to kill people who hadn't paid tribute.

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[ VO ]Harmless-looking young girls or
teenagers are often sent to crack down.

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on those who want to evade the
gang’s control or haven’t paid tribute.

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[ Paulo Cerrato ] At what age do people usually join a gang?

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[ FEMALE GANG MEMBER ] At twelve

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[ Female Gang Member ] Twelve-year-old kids first come
out to watch the surroundings.

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[ Female Gang Member ] As a rule, such kids
have neither parent, so they decide to join a gang.

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[ Female Gang Member ] Their first test is usually to watch
for other gangs in the blocks, we control.

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[ Female Gang Member ] They must keep an eye on the
block and give us a sign showing there's no cops around.

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[ Female Gang Member ] Watching is their first test

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[ Female Gang Member ] I joined a gang 
at 13 because I was alone.

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[ Female Gang Member ] My mother had gone to the States,
leaving me and my sister behind.

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[ Female Gang Member ] I’ve been with them for 15 years now.

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[ Paulo ]We've heard sometimes
women who want to join a gang.

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have to give themselves to a gang member,
which means they can be raped by anyone.

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[ Paulo ]What's your story?

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[ Female Gang Member ] No, I didn't
have to, but it's true, it happens sometimes.

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[ Female Gang Member ] You have to kill someone
if you want to join a gang.

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[ Female Gang Member ] This is not
a test that just any woman can pass.

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[ Female Gang Member ] I’m in charge of all the
women in the gang, as I've been a member for a long time.

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[ Female Gang Member ] I fulfill all the functions:

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collecting money, killings, and whatnot.

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[ Female Gang Member ] If someone doesn't pay,
they're given 24 hours to do it.

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[ Female Gang Member ] If someone
is behind, they've got 2 days to fix it.

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[ Female Gang Member ] If they don't, they're killed.

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[ Boy ] Mr, give me money!
[ Paulo ] Go away, kid!

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[ VO ]Paulo is a crime journalist from Honduras.
Like many of his colleagues he's been abducted.

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[ VO ]However, he managed to escape and even
helped to catch the gangsters who’d kidnapped him.

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[ Paulo ]We have two big gangs
here: MS-13 and the 18 gang.

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THE 18TH STREET GANG, AKA BARRIO 18, AND MS-13 WERE
FOUNDED IN LOS ANGELES BY CENTRAL AMERICAN IMMIGRANTS.

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AFTER BEING DEPORTED BACK TO THEIR HOMELANDS,
THE GANGSTERS DIVVIED UP TERRITORIES IN HONDURAS, EL

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SALVADOR, AND GUATEMALA. BARRIO 18 AND MS-13 SOON
BECAME CENTRAL AMERICA'S BIGGEST AND MOST VIOLENT GANGS

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[ Paulo ]They kill a lot of people,
the police catch a lot of gang members but.

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the gang members continue growing.

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[ Paulo ]Gangs started here like in '94.

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[ PAULO CERRATO, JOURNALIST ] And, at that
moment, it wasn't normal, cause that's when it started.

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[ Paulo ]But now all the people… You can say,

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'Yeah, there's a gang member
in this neighborhood,'

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and people say that's normal.

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[ Paulo ]Like, 'Yeah, you don't need to cross that
street, you can be killed, you can get shot'.

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[ Paulo ]And the people know that,
and the authorities know that,

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because if the people know where
gang members are, the police need to know.

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[ Melania ]Choloma is now the country's second region
that is completely overwhelmed by crime.

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[ Melania ]People who've experienced
rape, violence, and eviction

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come here to find lost and dead relatives.

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[ VO ]Melania’s organization helps women and kids
who have experienced violence at home or on the streets.

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WOMAN SUPPORTING MUTUAL RIGHTS AND RESPECT

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[ VO ]She once had to flee the country herself. She was
about to be arrested for protesting during the coup.

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MILITARY COUP OVERTHROW
OF PRESIDENT ZELAYA, 2009

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[ Melania ]Yes, I had to leave. My mother told me:
'Daughter, you'll be killed!'

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[ Melania ]She sent me to Nicaragua,

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but a week later
I realized that this was not the way out.

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[ Melania ]I'd left my son here.

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[ Melania ]I called and said, 'I'm coming back!'
I plucked up my courage and returned.

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[ Melania ]Tomorrow we need to come at 8 o'clock.

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[ Melania ]Today we need to carry this to the basement.

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[ Melania ]Now we'll clean up.

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[ Melania ]There are 12 - 13 female volunteers
in our organization.

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[ Melania ]We aren't paid, we do this out of conviction,
a sense of responsibility.

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[ Melania ]I'm the most combative here.

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[ Melania ]I do a lot to support these women.

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because I needed it once too:
I was also a domestic violence victim.

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[ VO ]Melania was determined not to flee a second
time, though her home and “Momuclaa” organization.

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are in one of San Pedro Sula’s most volatile
suburbs, over two gangs constantly fighting.

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[ Melania ]I'm going to the place where my
house was, and my business was located here too.

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[ Melania ]It was here that a massacre took place

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4 people were killed,

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including one of my colleagues.

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2 gangs collided here.

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RESTORING MY COMMUNITY

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[ Melania ]Everything was riddled with bullet holes,
but then we painted and fixed up this place,

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so young people could see
that we have somewhere to be creative.

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[ Melania ]We relax and spend our leisure time here.

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[ Melania ]It says here:

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'Women, don't flee your country!

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[ Melania ]With a prudent government,
women wouldn't run'.

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[ VO ]Hundreds of unidentified bodies
are buried in Mexico every year. Many are

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of migrants from Honduras and
neighboring countries, who died under tragic

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circumstances on the way to the USA.
Statistically, every fifth female refugee

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experiences violence. Yet out of despair
people take the risk and whole families flee.

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[ VO ]This bus station in San Pedro
Sula is a travel hub for many migrants.

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[ VO ]Here they can spend the
night, sheltered from the rain in a tent.

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[ VO ] Then they take a bus to the Guatemalan border.

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[ VO ]This is the terminus, before crossing the frontier.

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[ VO ]Here guides are paid to get
people illegally across the border.

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[ Paulo ]So, this area is used by the traffickers.

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[ Paulo ]They cross this way illegally, to that mountain,

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cause most of the people don't have
the documents or the permission.

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[ Paulo ]Even if it's legal to go from Honduras to
Guatemala, most of the people have children,

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and they don't have the permission
to cross with a child.

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[ Paulo ]Or some of them need to have a Covid test,
and the people don't have money to do that,

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so, they cross illegally this way and they're
in Guatemala and start their way to the USA.

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[ Paulo ]How many have you helped cross today?

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[ COYOTE ] Two - one girl and two women to be exact.

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[ Paulo ]And yesterday?
[ Coyote ]You should've come yesterday.

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[ Coyote ]Nothing has changed, but,
now, with the change of government,

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people are very edgy.

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[ VO ]Here is one migrant way around the frontier checkpoint.

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[ Migrant’s Mother ] Many people use this route.

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[ Migrant’s Mother ] They migrate because of poverty
or threats from MS-13.

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MS-13– A CRIMINAL GANG ALSO KNOWN AS MARA SALVATRUCHA

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[ Correspondent ]Why did your daughter immigrate?

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[ Migrant’s Mother ] She was raising a child by herself
when she met her boyfriend.

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[ MIGRANT'S MOTHER ] He said he'd been in a gang but had quit.

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[ Migrant’s Mother ] A year later,
they tried to force him to rejoin.

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[ Migrant’s Mother ] They had no choice but to migrate together.

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[ Migrant’s Mother ] Besides being pregnant with twins,

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she has her first child, still a baby.

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[ Migrant’s Mother ] It’s tearing me apart thinking
about that little child…

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wandering with them
through all these dangerous places.

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[ Migrant’s Mother ] Once, they ran into some gang members
from the Los Zetas cartel.

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[ Migrant’s Mother ] They wanted to do something bad to her.

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[ Migrant’s Mother ] She turned to run but, because of
her big belly, she slipped and let go of the child's hand.

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[ Migrant’s Mother ] He fell into
the river and started screaming!

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[ Migrant’s Mother ] Somebody helped her get out
and then to pull out the child.

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[ Migrant’s Mother ] She grabbed him and sat like this
until somebody came to help her.

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[ Migrant’s Mother ] She also said it was hard
to spend nights in abandoned houses.

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[ Migrant’s Mother ] Everything was dirty and rusty there.

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[ Migrant’s Mother ] She wrapped the baby in her shirt,
but he still got allergies and blisters.

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[ Migrant’s Mother ] The child is exhausted,
he can't sleep because of the itching.

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SCHOOL ZONE

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[ Paulo ]In these poor neighborhoods,
a child who lives in the street.

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has no other way to escape poverty
but to become a gang member.

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[ Paulo ]Nobody helps him, and there are just
a few organizations,

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like Melania's, that try to help them.

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[ PAULO CERRATO, JOURNALIST ]But we need
more of that... we need the government to get involved.

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[ Melania ]It's a special day for us

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because we will be handing out presents
to children from four communities.

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[ Melania ]They are poor communities,
like Colonia Lopez Arellano.

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[ MELANIA REYES HEAD, MOMUCLAA RELIEF FUND ] Our mission
is not to forget about the kids growing up before our eyes.

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[ Melania ]That's our battle.

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[ Melania ]We want them to feel joy
as they grab their presents and shout,

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[ Melania ]'Wow! A present! Thank you!
I'm so happy! Now I've got a toy!'.

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TODAY WE ARE BUILDING HOPE FOR
A JUST WORLD WITHOUT VIOLENCE

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[ VO ] The “Momuclaa” was founded by
Melania’s mother, Marta Velasquez. To escape from

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poverty, she graduated from school and
is thought to be the first Honduran feminist.

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[ Melania ]She's very strong, but her health's
been undermined by all the hard work.

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[ Melania ]In the communities we go to,
no one thinks about them.

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[ Melania ]They are simply forgotten.

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[ Melania ]During the pandemic,

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many children were sexually
abused by their parents.

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[ Melania ]Many adolescents who've come today
even wanted to commit suicide.

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[ Melania ]Many teenagers are now sexually abused
and mistreated by their stepfathers.

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PARENTS, REMEMBER: YOUR
CHILDREN FOLLOW IN YOUR FOOTSTEPS

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[ Melania ]Even their real fathers do it,
and girls get pregnant.

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[ Melania ]There are also those who run away
from home and live on the streets.

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[ Melania ]Sometimes their own families don't believe them.

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[ VO ]In a country of flourishing machismo,
and two main meals whose names

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translate as “Shot dead” or “Chopped
with a machete”… family violence is common.

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SHOT DEAD
CHOPPED WITH A MACHETE

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FEMINICIDE – GENDER-BASED
MURDER OF GIRLS AND WOMEN

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[ VO ]Concern over the killing of
women began in 2014, when the country

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was shocked by the high-profile
murder of Miss Honduras and her sister.

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[ Paulo ]Miss Honduras's sister was
Plutarco Ruiz' girlfriend.

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[ Paulo ]He was a drug baron
and a very dangerous man.

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[ Paulo ]It was his birthday that day. He threw a party
at his village, Santa Barbara...

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[ Paulo ]Plutarco got drunk,

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FOOD AND DRINKS NOT ALLOWED

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and he started...

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to get jealous about his girlfriend.

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[ Paulo ]Finally, he shot her!

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[ Paulo ]Miss Honduras tried to
shield her sister, so he shot her too.

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[ Paulo ]So... he killed both sisters!

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ARREST OF PLUTARCO
RUIZ NOVEMBER 2014

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[ Paulo ]Where the murder happened,
nobody wanted to talk to the police.

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[ Paulo ]Everyone was frightened of Plutarco.

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[ Paulo ]But finally the police
caught his subordinates at that place.

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[ Paulo ]They confessed, saying they
were following Plutarco's orders.

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ARREST OF PLUTARCO RUIZ
NOVEMBER 2014

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[ Paulo ]The police arrested Plutarco...

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and finally, the sentence is 30 or 40 years.

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[ Paulo ]Miss Honduras represented the country,
so, it's like...

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[ Paulo ]They didn't just kill Miss Honduras,
they killed the hopes of women for security...

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for their safety in the country.

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[ Mortician ]Hi, how are you?

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[ Mortician ]Is this the first call today? Hello, Doctor!

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[ MORTICIAN ]Judging by the number of shells,
there were many shots: about eight and eight shells.

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[ Witness ] She was so young!
[ Mortician ]Yes, she was. Strong physique...

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clearly young!

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[ Witness ]I heard three or four shots.

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[ WITNESS ]I was at home and woke up.
I heard them at about 4 am.

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[ Witness ]A guy was recently burned somewhere there!

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[ Witness ]You go out into the street,
and you are always in danger.

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[ Witness ]Yes, many have died.

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[ Mortician ]She'll be taken straight
to the morgue for identification.

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[ VO ]The victim was quickly identified,
because her friends and relatives were

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already looking for her. Her parents were
called to the morgue to identify the body.

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[ Victim’s Father ]We're waiting for her body

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VICTIM'S PARENTS

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to be handed over to us.
We'll take her to Siguatepeque.

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[ Victim’s Father ]We want to take her...

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to the chapel of rest...

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and then bury her.

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[ VO ] Naturally, families gathered
for the funeral. The newspapers

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reported that this was only
one out of five victims in a week.

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FIVE WOMEN FOUND DEAD.
EX-BOYFRIENDS UNDER SUSPICION

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[ VO ] In each case the husbands are under suspicion.
However, the parents don’t believe this, thinking

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she was killed when crossing the border of the
two gangs’ territories, and came under crossfire.

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[ Victim’s Father ]In some cases...

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people who benefit society get murdered.

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[ Victim’s Father ]She was active.

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[ Victim’s Father ]She was determined.

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[ Victim’s Father ]And she was a good hardworking girl.

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[ Paulo ] Do you have children?
[ Female Gang Member ] Yes, a son!

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[ Female Gang Member ]No, our son doesn't live with us,
he lives with his grandmother.

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[ Female Gang Member ]His father and I sent him there because
we don't want him to end up where we are.

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FEMALE GANG MEMBER

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[ Female Gang Member ]Yes, I'm very afraid! This has already
happened with other couples and their kids.

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[ Female Gang Member ]Members of your own gang
can sometimes kill children!

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[ Female Gang Member ]Just because their parents
didn't follow some gang rules.

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[ Female Gang Member ]We're sent to collect money
or to kill, for example...

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[ Female Gang Member ]We must give the boss the money.

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[ Female Gang Member ]1 lempira missing, you're dead!

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LEMPIRA
HONDURAN CURRENCY

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[ Female Gang Member ]We have accommodation, food,
sometimes they give us money for clothes.

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[ Female Gang Member ]But this isn't a job with wages!

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[ Female Gang Member ]For example, do you know about the woman
who was recently murdered here?

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[ Female Gang Member ]She was from another gang, got mixed
up with one of ours, and they killed her.

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SECTOR PLANETA IS ONE OF THE MOST
DANGEROUS DISTRICTS IN SAN PEDRO SULA

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[ Female Gang Member ]We grab strangers, get the
truth: 'What gang are you from? Why are you here?'

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[ Female Gang Member ]It's against the
rules, he's been seen with another gang.

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[ Female Gang Member ]We take
him to a place called 'Madhouse'...

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and kill him there!

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[ Female Gang Member ]We
take revenge on the other gang,

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because sometimes it ends up

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they want to collect money on our territory.

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[ Female Gang Member ]Gangs fight for territory.

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[ Migrant’s Mother ]She left eight months ago.
She is due to give birth soon

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[ Migrant’s Mother ]I am very sad because we have lost contact.

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[ Migrant’s Mother ]It makes me very worried.

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[ Migrant’s Mother ]She said that she met a man
who would help her cross the border.

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[ MIGRANT'S MOTHER ] But this man
said that if she didn't pay his demands,

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she would be given to the Los Zetas cartel.

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[ Migrant’s Mother ]I hear news of bad things happening
to people, or they died...

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[ Migrant’s Mother ]I pray to God to bring her back to me.

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[ Migrant’s Mother ]Then I remember why she left and pray that
she can live elsewhere, and move on.

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[ Migrant’s Mother ]We have a beautiful country,
but there are many bad things here.

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[ Migrant’s Mother ]I don't want them to return.
I ask God that they stay there!

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[ Paulo ]I have a daughter, and I have fear.

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[ Paulo ]Most of my tattoos are for my daughter.
I told her, 'You need to be Daddy's tank!

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[ Paulo ]Strong, you need to be strong!'.

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[ Father ]It's very hard.

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[ VICTIM’S FATHER ] It's scary...

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[ Father ]You wouldn't wish it on anyone. Nobody cares!

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[ Father ]A crime's happened but no one knows
anything and everything stay as it is.

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[ Father ]That's what's happening in this country.

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[ Paulo ]If you had the opportunity to decide again
whether to join a gang or not, would you?

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[ Gang Member ]Yes!
Yes, I'd join again.

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[ Paulo ]Why did you decide to give us an interview?

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[ Female Gang Member ]It's because...

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[ Female Gang Member ]The boss ordered me to give it!
It isn't me! I must follow his orders.

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[ Melania ]How many girls from 10 - 16 years old
are dragged into this, and taken away...

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[ Melania ]They return in a body bag?

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[ Melania ]We just don't know where they are,

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whether they died. They never returned.

00:24:04.150 --> 00:24:08.080
[ Melania ]Whether they were in another country,
whether they were raped...

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[ Melania ]We don't know anything about them.

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[ Melania ]Our hopes are high because a woman
has come to power.

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XIOMARA CASTRO TOOK OFFICE AS
HONDURAS' PRESIDENT IN JANUARY 2022.

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HER HUSBAND HAD BEEN THE COUNTRY'S PRESIDENT
BEFORE BEING OVERTHROWN IN A COUP IN 2009.

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and we feel relief in our hearts
I hope to God...

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she won't give way to machoism.

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[ Melania ]Otherwise, we women,
the social movements, the feminists...

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will become a rock in her shoe:

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we will be loud...

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[ Melania ]We won't let that happen!

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[ Boy ] So beautiful!
[ Hairdresser ] Yes! Just look at her hair!

00:24:58.200 --> 00:25:02.060
[ Hairdresser ]She'll be beautiful today for her birthday.

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[ Melania ]The idea is to bring these places
back to normal.

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[ Melania ]These women promote
change and transformation,

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because leaving the country is wrong.

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WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY NATALIA
KARACHKOVA CAMERA OPERATORS SERAFIM

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FYODOROV NATALIA KARACHKOVA
PRODUCER OKSANA BOYCHUK VIDEO EDITORS

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ANDREY VASYUTKIN DMITRY BORZENKO
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EDITOR SERGEY EVSTIGNEEV MOTION DESIGN
DIANA SHANGARYAEVA STEPAN BURNATOV

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MUSIC KSENIA PRASOLOVA TRANSLATORS
OLGA VOLKOVA ALIK BERDUKOV

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ALEKSANDR PETROV NARRATOR
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