Vuelo Panam 103 teoría de conspiración || Relatos del lado oscuro (Podcast)

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A conspiracy theory It is defined as
an alternative theory that tries to explain a

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phenomenon of great importance, but usually
tries to explain it beyond what has officially

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been explained. There are so many
conspiracy theories. There are all kinds of

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conspiracy theories. Tonight you may discover
something about this subject in this program accounts

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of the dark side, strange beings, events, is inexplicable, telling stories

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that other minds prefer to ignore.
Let' s go back in time It

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' s the' 70s. For
many young people. That happened in the

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last century and you probably haven'
t heard of it. But by a

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thousand nine hundred and seventy- one, the U S lost the Vietnam war.

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Even when your troops finished leaving until
seventy- two and whatever you wanted

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was already defeated. The longest war
and one of the cruelest ever was ending

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and the United States lost the war. For their part, the Soviet Union,

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that is, the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics, is having quite a

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peak in the communist movement and all
this form of government and all this political

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situation related to the Soviet Union is
expanding. There are movements that are financed

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either by the Soviet Union or by
chis and even with support from Cuba,

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in different parts of the world.
At the same time, there is a

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major discomfort in the territories of the
Middle East because of conflicts with Israel,

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so that the moment is very conflictive
let me discuss another little bit. While

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in Mexico we were living a more
or less good period and in many parts

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of the world there was economic boom
and some tranquility. In the Middle East,

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the situation was terrible. Israel had
had to face three or four wars

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in a very short time. The
last was the Yom Kippur conflict, an

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attempt to invade its territory that ended
with the defeat of its adversaries. The

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conflict was against Libya, Syria,
Egypt. Come on, that was getting

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ugly. There were terrorist movements in
various parts of the world and terrorist attacks.

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Frequent movements such as the Palestine Liberation
Organization, the Palestine Liberation Front and

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many others had begun to work in
the area of terrorism, such as bombing,

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detonating a train, attacking a minister. That was the environment, but

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there were more problems. There were
problems because the United States has suddenly had

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an economic boom and there is industry, growth. Everything you want to send

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out based on oil and you know
what. The large oil producers in the

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United States, within the United States, that is, in the United States,

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have begun to lower their production.
Texas' big oil tankers are shrinking

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because the mantles are running out,
the old fields are losing their strength.

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Mexican oil is very good, but
it' s not enough. They depend

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on Arab oil, the Arabian Peninsula
and in general, the Middle East is

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a territory with large oil deposits,
and this generates much interest for both the

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Soviet Union and the United States.
So there' s a huge conflict.

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The United States is subsidizing, is
providing money for the governments of Iran,

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the famous Shah of Iran, Mohamed
Reza Pahlevi. They are financing weapons to

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sustain that government in exchange for oil. But there are other problems. There

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is enormous instability in Iraq in nineteen
hundred and seventy- seven, and in

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Iraq the government is socialist and has
Soviet support. But for its part,

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Egypt is also generating some instability.
In general, they all have some problem

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and in one thousand nine hundred and
seventy- three the Union of Arab oil

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producers decrees a oil embargo. What
this means is that no one will sell

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oil to the United States, to
any of its allies, or to anyone

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who has supported Israel during the Yom
Kippur war. It was a huge problem

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because weapons came from several countries,
came from the United States, came from

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England, came from capitalist Germany.
At that time remember that Germany was divided

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into two, not belonging to the
Iron Curtain, the Soviet bloc and had

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the division of the Berlin Wall,
and another belonging to the capitalist bloc.

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The issue is that this becomes a
real problem, because America is dependent on

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oil and there are a number of
problems. The famous Suez Canal is another

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issue, but the blockade generates four
hundred percent oil. Imagine those cars in

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the United States that gave three kilometers
per liter of gasoline, the big planes

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flying all over the world is chaos. In the face of this, the

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United States has to rethink its position
before the world. If they do this

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to you again, they can bring
you to ruin all of a sudden.

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In the United States there are no
very long gasolines, rows of shooting cars

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fights because there is no gasoline.
Military aircraft with minimum fuel suspended missions stopped

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ships is a chaos without fuel.
They' re dead and the Arabs know

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it. But what can be done. Obviously, the U S is taking

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more money to Iran. Sha Mohamed
Reza Paclevi sells them and begins to diminish

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the attention a little, but other
Arab countries not Iraq No. And this

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is leading to a series of tensions
in the region that end in a thousand

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nine hundred and seventy- nine,
when the Shah of Iran is dethroned,

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despite all American efforts to stay in
power, that comes down and the new

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government is an Islamic government. The
new ruler in turn, the leader of

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the whole movement, is the famous
Ayatola Homeini. He is a rigid,

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strict Muslim man, strict turban practitioner, totally religious and as such has no

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interest in negotiating anything with the United
States. So simply and in fact he

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captures his diplomats and arms himself one
but of those United States he' s

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going to have to play with his
hand down the table. As simple as

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that, you can no longer afford
a new global war, such as Vietname,

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where it came out completely collapsed.
He can' t be on it

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anymore because at the same time he
was giving money, it didn' t

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do any good. But it also
has another huge powder keg, because at

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that time, in Central America,
Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador Honduras,

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very strong socialist movements begin to emerge. Nicaragua with Anastasio Somoza, the butcher

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of the United States and the movement
against Anastasio Somoza. Then suddenly they see

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themselves in a conflict that is affecting
them in all their interests. Meanwhile,

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the Soviet Union is having a good
boom, it' s funding Iraq,

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it' s funding Southeast Asia,
it' s funding here and there.

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The Chinese, who are also completely
filiated against the United States, are also

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having a very good impact on certain
regions. Well, what does America do

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with its classic strategies. Yes,
for years, the United States, according

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to conspiracy theorists, had used false
flags, for example, per Hardvard.

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A conspiracy theory claims that the aupr
Harvard bombing not only knew it was going

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to happen, but voluntarily did nothing
to justify their entry into the war.

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Also, for example, in World
War I, the sinking of Lusitania was

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something entirely deliberate and ended with the
entry of the United States into the war.

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And if we keep going around,
we' re finding a bunch of

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conspiracy theories. But in those seventies, America is playing several cards. On

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the one hand, in the Middle
East, Central America, in Eastern Europe,

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in the regions behind the iron curtain. While the Soviet Union has everything

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under control, the United States has
a multiple espionage service that injects money into

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ject money there. This terrible scenario
continues to grow. With the fall of

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the Shah of Iran. They all
get complicated in the Middle East. Then,

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in the 1980s, the movement continues
to gain strength and the United States

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continues to weaken, at least in
appearance. But deep down they' re

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negotiating, playing counter- espionage,
double spy like movie, code messages,

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murders, hidden, very impressive things. By nine hundred and eighty- eight,

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you' d think all that was
behind you. There were already some

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Olympics in Moscow, there were other
things. The world was very happy in

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the eighties. After all that vortex
in the Middle East, we' re

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all happy and listening in English-
speaking groups and things like that. The

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richest music movement in the United States
and little dances begin. It' s

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not disco music anymore, no,
no, no, this is all going

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very well. If you lived in
the 1980s, you remember we felt at

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ease, but deep down in the
United States you continued with the same concern,

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but stronger and stronger. For a
simple reason. Iraq, now under

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the power of Saddam Husseine, has
no affection for the United States. Iran

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is in the hands of Islamic religious
ayatolas and has no appreciation of the United

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States either. And the oil'
s down there. But that' s

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not the end of it. Someone
has to do something and there' s

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starting to be injections of money over
here. And there comes the famous Iran

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Iraq war, which would last almost
ten years, where financing went to both

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sides clandestinely. The U S was
giving money to Iran through sophisticated armaments.

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The Iran contras scandal sounds like Oliver
North selling American weapons to the Ayatollas in

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Iran, who were supposed to be
their enemies, but sold them the weapons

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and with that money went and bought
weapons for the Nicaraguan contras. Yes,

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yes, those who were against revolutionaries, for a counter- revolution and with

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Mexican drug cartels, the U S
CIA was dealing drugs to send weapons to

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Iraq. Who understands all that.
It was a horrible network, but the

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world is happy. Now let me
change the page. I' m going

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to talk to you about something different. You remember an aviation company called Panamerican

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Airways. PANAM was emblematic of one
of the world' s first aviation companies

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for American Airways in the 1930s or
the one that invented the first flights that

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went around the world. Panam'
s zero- flight one sailed because that

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' s what they called it,
from San Francisco, California. He went

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all the way around the world,
going through how many islands he could visit

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Hawaii, Japan, after Europe,
until he returned to New York. I

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mean, I turned it around completely
and then flight zero two went backwards in

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the opposite direction. The fact is
that Panama, in the 1970s, was

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seriously affected by the issue of oil. He hit him hard, but he

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was still surviving. It was a
valuable company. People loved working for Panama.

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Not everyone can work there. No. No, gentlemen, Panama has

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always been incredibly strict to be an
airplane employee, i e pilot or cabin

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staff. It was necessary to quote
certain characteristics not only to be beautiful or

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ugly, but to have a vocation
of intelligent polyglot service, willing to everything

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with a great training to become flight
captain Empanam was to be flight captain was

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someone who had fought for years for
this and who now, following captain,

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became mentor, that is, those
who came after him would learn from him.

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That was the real pride. I' m captain of Panama. It

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' s not anything. Being captain
of Panama means you fought for it and

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others recognize you. But the cabin
staff are all quiet. Being Panamanian cabin

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staff was a privilege, but a
privilege that costs and costs a lot of

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work. Getting there not because it' s hard to get in, but

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to stay because you have to get
up at four in the morning, leave

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the hotel at five in the morning
as if nothing, perfectly dressed, both

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them and them, because Panama not
only had pretty girls. In the 1970s

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and 1980s there were mixed crews,
men and women. That pretty girl thing

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had already been left behind. Now
there were also people with many years of

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flight and great capacity. The service
is impeccable, incredible. People would go

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up to panam as if it were
a dress- dressing dress tie, heels

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because it was panam So you'
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ranking diplomat from a rock star,
a well- known character from the farandula

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flying in Panama. The planes,
in addition, were great, but the

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staff were the key At six in
the morning they were at the door of

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the workstation and the next twelve or
fourteen hours would work and when they got

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off the plane, after arriving at
their destination, they should continue to see

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themselves as if nothing, as if
they had just come out of the shower.

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Smiles, strong and intelligent, able
to control a violent passenger, able

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to help a baby be born in
full flight, able to save the life

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of someone who is having a heart
attack. It wasn' t anything.

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And, as I was saying,
planes, planes from Panama were especially well

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cared for. Panam had several routes. It had the international routes, the

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big ones, the powerful ones,
those routes that traveled the world from tip

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to end and had the short routes
where it used smaller planes. The large

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planes were the seven forty- seven
the beautiful and impressive yun bulb with that

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classic emblem back. His first planes
were truly small and an adventure to fly

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into them. But Panam had enabled
these great seven forty- seven beautiful luxury

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crew. Let me tell you that
Panam was the one who established that cabin

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crewmen would leave the leather jacket and
the cap and pilot lenses of the Second

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War and wear the naval suit as
if it were naval personnel, and their

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planes. All of Panama' s
planes started calling themselves Clipper. Yes,

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the Clipper was a ship that had
sailed to China in the 19th century and

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was very famous for it Panam,
flying towards the territories of the East.

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He used the term clipper. All
of his planes had a name and,

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therefore, the crew dressed as if
it were a ship. They established the

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elegant sack, with awards, with
emblems, with a series of badges,

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with the stripes of a naval crew
and elegance. Imagine, you that brigi

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bardo traveling with Panama sofía a loren
sitting on a plane from Panama and everything

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you heard we' ve only heard
talked about. Once. Having said that,

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let me take you now to a
thousand nine hundred and eighty- eight.

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It' s complicated days. These
are complicated days because in nineteen hundred

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and eighty- eight the United States
has shot down an Iranian commercial plane,

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an Iranian airline plane loaded with two
hundred and ninety passengers has been shot down

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by a missile that was fired from
an American cruiser. A warship that had

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invaded Iranian territorial waters shot down a
passenger plane full of Iranians and knows what.

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The United States said it had been
with all or meaning, that the

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plane had entered the space of the
ship and that it had already approached in

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a disaster. He didn' t
even bother to say it was an accident

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at all. The President of that
time said I will not apologize for the

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United States. Never. The United
States never apologized, and in fact they

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gave a medal to the captain of
the ship that shot down the plane.

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I' ll tell you about that
later. So there was already there,

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there was a very strong international terrorist
movement in protest against all this. In

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addition, during the years of the
war Iran Iraq, the United States had

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invested fortunes on both sides and it
turns out that both sides were already reaching

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agreements. By one thousand nine hundred
and eighty- eight were already agreeing.

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It didn' t make sense.
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neither had won anything and were reaching
a peace agreement. But the U

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S wanted to take down the Iranian
government, take out the Ayatolas, set

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up a president or a government of
its own to exploit the oil and soon

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end Iraq and put someone like it
did many years later. That was the

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scenario in eighty- eight, but
let' s leave that for one thousand

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nine hundred and eighty- eight,
when December comes Syrian life and like every

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year, when December comes, Christmas
comes. You hear bells at the airports,

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there' s Christmas musiquita bollitos de
Navidad. In the United States everything

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is full of reindeer and Santa Clauss
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home. So when the Christmas period
approaches, around December 20th, the flights

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become saturated, fully filled and it' s the good season for Panama Your

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planes are full. People go up
and get very festive that when they get

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on the plane there' s music
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s all very nice. December twenty- one of a thousand nine hundred and

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eighty- eight is on a Wednesday
and as always, the planes are full

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because Christmas is approaching and we are
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on the American Pan American ar Ways
airline platform is the plane known as Made

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of the Seas Clipper Made of the
Seas. The Maiden Clipper of the Seas

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is a seventy forty- seven precious. He' s got a few years

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of flying, but he' s
supremely careful. You have an impressive crew.

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There are sixteen crew members captain first
officer flight engineer and thirteen flight attendants

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to attend a passage that would probably
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That gives you an idea of the
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In the morning everything is ready.
The plane will perform the last trajectory or

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the penultimate trajectory of flight one hundred
and three. Flight one hundred and three

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is a very complicated flight to Panama. It' s a flight that starts

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in Malta, in the Mediterranean.
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in Germany. From Frankfurt in Germany
flies to Heathrow in London, and from

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there they board the large plane that
crosses the Atlantic to New York and ends

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in Detroit, Michigan. So it' s an impressive tour, but not

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everything the same plane does, a
small plane transfers people from Malta to Frankfurt

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and from Frankfurt to Heathrow. In
Heathrow everyone changes planes to a seven forty

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- seven, which is much more
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and the plane takes off from Heathrow, flies north to grab the top of

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the globe and then descends to New
York. The bow that I' m

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putting on the screen right now is
the one that describes this flight and from

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and then there' s another plane
that takes people to Detroit and from there

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they disperse in the United States.
The important flight is the Intercontinental. It

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' s between eight and ten hours. The plane takes off starts to rise,

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reaches about thirty- five zero feet
about eleven zero meters high and from

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there flies cruise. Preparations have been
made on that day in the morning.

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The May of the Seas plane arrived
the day before. It' s full

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of fuel, almost a hundred tons
of fuel, and luggage starts to come

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up and the ticketing starts to happen, some passengers begin to arrive. The

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idea is that around six o'
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and take off with the idea a
little sunrise in New York. Throughout this

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time, transfer planes will also arrive
from Frankfurt. He takes Frankfurt' s

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luggage off and gets on the plane. There are two or three protocols.

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The first thing is that all the
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what it' s carrying. There
are some dogs out there that smell the

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luggage, too. Then the boarding
begins. People go up, take their

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place, accommodate the workers of the
plane, the cabin people. They and

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they are in charge of distributing in
their seats and uploading the hand luggage to

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the compartments above the seats. Everything' s perfect. They have a great

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crew. The captain' s an
old veteran who' s over 50 years

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old. It' s flown 17, 000 hours. He' s got

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a great copilot, too. An
old man too. The head of Beautiful

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or Hostesses is fifty- something years
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So they are very capable people.
They order that, they finish, but

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there' s a little detail.
The plane isn' t full. It

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' s not gonna be full.
It' s extrao. Year, December

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21 the evening flight for dawn December
22nd in the United States is usually a

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flight that there is no free space. But good are things that happen to

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the airline and so that about one
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some of them last minute. There' s no time to waste.

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You can' t wait to see
if someone else wants to go up or

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won' t have to go out. Thus, the plane closes doors turns

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on the large engines, heads towards
the track and about six twenty- five

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o' clock takes off on board. There are people of the most varied.

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The youngest of the passengers is only
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a beautiful baby. Her mommy is
a young woman who is on her way

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home to visit grandparents who want to
meet the grandson. She' s a

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beautiful creature. There' s also
a folk singer out there. Some athletes

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and thirty- five young people who
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United States and who were exchanging in
England go home to spend Christmas. There

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are also other people there, but
in general, out of the two hundred

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and fifty passengers on board, let' s say two hundred are Americans.

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The vast majority. After that,
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s cocktail. There are twenty-
one nationalities in there, there are Mexicans,

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Filipinos, Spaniards, there are all
kinds. The plane takes off without

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any news as expected. It'
s a quiet afternoon and it' s

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starting to go back. The flight
starts to rise as the big engines propel

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him to full power. Traveling in
a seven hundred and forty- seven of

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Panama is an experience. While this
happens let me move it a little further

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north. Let' s go Scotland, down fres county It' s a

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region a little far from the borders
with England. It' s a cool,

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cold region for December, cloudy as
ever. And that' s where

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we' re headed for Lockerby Village. It' s an even more remote

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area and we' re in a
very small neighborhood known as Sherwood Crescent.

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It' s a neighborhood, it' s a few houses, it'

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s got a little church over there, it' s got a little school

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there and they' re very few
inhabitants. In fact, all over Lockervino

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there are more than four zero people
living. It is a small population,

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there are many sheep in the area. It is very cold and that evening,

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moreover, is the shortest day of
the year, Wednesday twenty- first

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of December of one thousand nine hundred
and eighty- eight was the shortest day

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of that year and, obviously,
at six o' clock last night.

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But that' s no problem,
because Lokerry' s people have a hobby

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of the best sitting around watching TV. They love watching a program known as

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thec seor life. This is your
life. I don' t know if

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you' ve seen him. I
never saw him, but they love him.

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Even when the show ends. People
go pop to the tavern to talk

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about what they saw on the show. So everyone' s home, they

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' re delighted with life when about
the program started at six o' clock

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is well advanced. It' s
all very exciting. Everything is perfectly fine

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in the bea locker houses and little
lights that light and turn off at Christmas

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and everything is fine. Everyone is
very happy until suddenly, in the middle

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of the silence of the night,
a kind of lightning is heard. It

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is a very strong lightning, very
strong for the old men, the older

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ones, those who lived the time
of the war. It' s a

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sound that immediately brings shock, because
it' s an explosion. They just

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heard that. Other people say how
weird those lightnings are and I don'

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t know how much any of them
are looking to stay frozen, because what

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they just heard is the clipper made
of the you explode in mid- flight

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and start falling apart by disintegrating one
of the wings. It falls completely over

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the Sherwood neighborhood, growing with fifty
tons of fuel and immediately bursting fragments of

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the plane begin to fall everywhere.
The impact kills eleven residents of Locker By

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and all those cute people on board
are dead. The clipper made of the

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Seas has disappeared from flight control radar
screens everywhere, exploded in mid- flight

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and fell into thousands of pieces,
watering on an area of 1, 800

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square kilometers. Impressive. The plane
was passing thirty- five thousand feet high,

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had reached its flight level and has
disappeared. The impact of that has

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generated a telluric wave that was recorded
by London' s ismographers several hundred miles

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away. The impact of the fragments
that have fallen in Lóckerby has caused a

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fire that causes a kind of glow
on the horizon that can be visible up

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to forty kilometers from there. The
guards, the vigilante people who were in

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other regions have been able to see
how the horizon lights up in an intense

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red color. When the first cops
arrive at the scene, they can'

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t even get close. The heat
is so intense that it has begun to

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melt. The pavement of a nearby
road and the metal fences protecting one of

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the curves of the road have begun
to melt, but also objects continue to

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fall. When the first firefighters arrive
there, they have no idea what to

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do. It' s locker by
for the whole region. There are 20

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policemen who, when a fire occurred, change their uniform and are firefighters.

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When firefighters begin to arrive from other
regions. That' s a terrible scenario.

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During the night, it' s
a nightmare. The smell of fuel

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is everywhere, the smell of burnt
things is impressive. The sounds, the

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clicks, are something that stays in
the memory of those who were there and

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cannot forget it. In addition,
this rare phenomenon is generated where you feel

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that there is silence, sepulchral,
which inhibits shock, inhibits you from detecting

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the sounds themselves and the darkness.
They can' t see what' s

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happened. They don' t know
exactly what it is. At first it

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is thought that there was a bomb. There was a lot of fear,

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thinking maybe a Russian missile had hit
Lockerby. The media later reported that the

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plane, Panama' s one hundred
and three flight, the clipper made of

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the Seas, the Maiden of the
Seas, had fallen to the ground.

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It' s not clear what happened. The news goes and goes in all

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directions. There is much confusion at
dawn with the first rays of light is

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shocking. Neighbors of quite remote localities
begin to arrive at Ockerville. They don

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' t come to visit, they
don' t come to say hello,

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they don' t come to see
what they help. Some of them bring

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in their vehicles bodies, bodies of
people who have fallen off the plane.

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Then begins the painful recovery of that
scattered. In all this huge surface there

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are very small fragments, there are
other very large ones. A full wing,

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a complete engine that ruined the road
by falling and sinking one of the

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wings has caused a crater when it
fell to the ground and exploded, caused

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a hole of almost fifteen meters deep
and another one hundred meters long. He

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' s destroyed 20 houses. The
stage is tremendous. Questions begin to arise

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how this could happen, what happened, what happens when. The experts,

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the experts, the people from F
to North America are also beginning to arrive.

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As it is an American- made
plane, that is, from the

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United States, of the Boing.
The Boing experts arrive, the people of

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the US Federal Aviation Agency arrive,
the English experts arrive, the international experts

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arrive and people arrive from Germany,
because, as the flight had started in

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Frankfurt, they also arrive there and
what they find is shocking as the day

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goes by. They begin to recover
some bodies that are being placed in the

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Municipal Palace, in the Hall,
the town hall, as they call it.

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In an impromptu morgue. People are
asked, please, not to touch

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the objects where the reports are.
If there' s a piece of plane

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in your house that fell, that' s where they report it and someone

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' s going to go there that, please, doesn' t move anything

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anymore. It is important for experts
to know where each piece fell, to

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put it together and try to reassemble
the Made of the Seas. The fact

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is, very soon, after a
couple of days, maybe three days,

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something is very clear. This plane
didn' t fall. Only all passengers

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are dead. Yes, the two
hundred and forty- three passengers, sixteen

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crew members and eleven Lockerby residents are
dead. No survivors, no chance at

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all. But what becomes more evident
as he recovers fragments of the plane is

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that it was shot down by an
explosive attack. It wasn' t the

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first time. Some years ago,
in nineteen hundred and eighty- three,

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there had been another attack on a
plane from Panama. A flight from Tokyo,

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Hawaii, United States, had suffered
an explosive attack and was about to

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take it down thanks to the pilot' s expertise had survived. But in

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the case of Lockerville' s flight, Panama' s hundred and three,

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that had not been the case.
This had been much worse. The experts

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are becoming aware of two central parts. The accident had described two different trajectories,

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that is, in mid- flight, the plane had been segmented.

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The front where the pilots go and
the front of the cab had separated from

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the rest of the fuselage and had
fallen on its own on an elliptical trajectory

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that had lasted approximately two minutes.
Before landing, the rest of the plane

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' s body had continued to fly
with engines at full power, but without

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aerodynamics. By losing the front,
the plane began to unravel by throwing a

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piece outwards quickly because, moreover,
at the time that explosive device had detonated

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the explosion, it had opened a
gap such that it separated the cabin and

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caused damage by explosive decompression that had
disintegrated the plane. This was obvious.

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The trajectory of the remains, the
dispersion that was everywhere, made it very

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noticeable that this had happened. There
wasn' t much to say. Now

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came the task of arming it.
As the weeks pass and with all the

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pain of the people who had lost
their loved ones who knew nothing, reports

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begin to be given and it becomes
evident this was an attack. There'

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s no more. The FB and
North American experts from the FA and other

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experts began to analyze the remains that
were being recovered and put them together in

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a kind of skeleton. They were
placing the fragments that arrived in a sort

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of macabre exhibition. It was clear
where the number one cargo explosion went.

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As the weeks go by, more
remains are recovered and experts can determine where

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the explosion started and where the bomb
was. And the amazement is enormous because

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they find the remains of the bomb. The bomb was placed on a Hitachi

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radio recorder, a model like the
one I' m showing you on screen.

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They had removed some of the internal
mechanisms where they had placed an explosive

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with a time detonator. After a
while after the plane had taken off,

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the device had exploded, causing an
expansive wave that damaged the cargo hold,

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broke the bulkheads and this generated segmentation
of the plane. The other thing,

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it was the effect of the tragedy
itself. But not only that. As

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the experts and experts in explosives were
analyzing the remains that were being recovered,

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they were able to determine which bags
were closest to the explosive and finally,

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which suitcase contained the explosion and what
clothes were in the suitcase. You'

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ll think about how that could be. If the plane spread over 800 square

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kilometers, it wasn' t fast. It took almost three years, but

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they managed to determine that the luggage
containing the bomb was a brown Samsonight suitcase.

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Inside was the radio recorder and there
were clothes. The fragments of clothing

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carried directly to a store in Malta, where one hundred and three of the

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recovered clothes had begun to fly.
These fragments of clothing had a name mark,

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the size and you could appreciate the
fragment of the cloth as they knew

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it. These are expert techniques,
but basically what they do is analyze the

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different garments and according to the order
in which the bags were uploaded, determine

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which one was closest and which one
further, and then, by the content

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of explosives, they were able to
determine that it was a semtex type explosive

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does not smell, unlike other explosives
that are easily detectable by dogs. The

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zentex doesn' t smell. But
there were too many questions left. It

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was obvious the suitcase had caused the
explosion. All the misfortune, who packed

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the suitcase. The suitcase had no
label. Yes, even if you don

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' t believe it, in the
fragments of the suitcase that were loaded with

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explosive remnants and that determined that this
was where it was started, it had

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no label. On the other hand, other suitcases that were very close or

439
00:39:35.199 --> 00:39:39.119
in contact did. This one didn' t carry a passenger, she wasn

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' t assigned to anyone. No
one was accompanying that suitcase. It was

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deliberate, but who had done it, who had an interest in it.

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The investigation continued and as progress was
made, the evidence revealed little more,

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for example, that the suitcase as
such had been purchased in Malta. The

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clothes had been purchased in Malta,
but the recorder had not, the Hitachi

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recorder had not been purchased there.
It was originally said that it had been

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purchased in Libya, but Hitachi'
s invoice and export order indicated Iran.

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The questions were huge. The investigation
went on for some time. It was

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finally determined that the Libyans had caused
this attack. The famous Colonel Gaddafi,

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who had a personal quarrel with the
United States. Colonel Gaddafi was said to

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have ordered the attack and, through
a last name subject, the East Macraji

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was responsible for placing the explosive,
arming the suitcase, putting it on the

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plane in Malta, hence taking it
to Frankfurt and Frankfurt to Heathrow. But

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he wasn' t there. He
was the one who organized it. It

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all pointed to him and another guy
who would have been the one who packed

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his suitcase at the airport, a
Libyan airline employee who was in Heathrow.

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That' s what it was all
about. The United States and, in

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general, the international community claimed Libya. For this. Livia originally did not

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accept anything, did not recognize anything, nor did I say I am the

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author, let alone the subject whom
they had pointed out as guilty to the

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Mcgrahi it turned out that he had
pointed it out. The clothes salesman.

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Apparently he recognized it and said this
is the one who bought the clothes that

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were in the suitcase. Well,
Grahi soul was a relief intelligence operator,

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00:41:43.280 --> 00:41:45.000
that is, a guy who had
to do with terrorism and all this at

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Gaddafi' s service. So it
sounded good the theory sounded good. This

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guy is in charge of arming the
bomb with an explosive technician. He had

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taken it, brought it, put
it on and exploded without being on board.

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But Libya said nothing. Launo established
important economic sanctions, trade blockades,

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product blockade, food blockade, everything, everything, everything, why the hypothesis

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said it was Libya in the year
two thousand and three. Finally, Libya

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issued a very brief letter stating that
it recognized that one of its intelligence operators

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had been the cause of the attack, not that they, i e Gaddafi,

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00:42:29.760 --> 00:42:32.760
had neither authorized it, planned it
nor ordered it, but that a

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00:42:32.800 --> 00:42:39.159
free agent belonging to Libya intelligence had
been the culprit and handed this agent over

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to the Scottish authorities. The officer
was prosecuted and sentenced to life imprisonment.

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I think in the two thousand thirteen
or two thousand fifteen he was released for

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health reasons and sent back. For
its part, Libya, recognizing the attack

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as being caused by its agents,
delivered$ 2 5 billion in compensation to

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families who lost a loved one on
the flight. An extraordinary figure was followed

479
00:43:07.360 --> 00:43:13.079
by the United Nations lifting the trade
embargo and the flow of oil markets again.

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00:43:13.199 --> 00:43:17.519
All that and the matter was left
there the culprit in prison, although

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he was later released. Two hundred
and ninety people died, but the story

482
00:43:22.960 --> 00:43:28.920
had two or three seconds, two
or three doubts. The first question asked

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00:43:29.000 --> 00:43:35.239
by different experts in international intelligence,
that is, experts in espionage, is

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why Libya Qaddafi was certainly not very
fond of the United States of America,

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but had received support from the United
States on different occasions. Within these mysterious

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programs of financing and armaments, Gaddafia
had received support from the United States.

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Second, why in such a peculiar
way, why suddenly? Why Libya against

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00:44:04.320 --> 00:44:07.079
a plane of this nature, why
not attack a ship, why not do

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something else, why I hired a
plane that left England and was loaded with

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people. It wasn' t Gaddafi' s style, but there was also

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00:44:19.960 --> 00:44:24.400
another question left out there. When
the USS Vincenes, the missile cruiser shot

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down the Iranian plane, the Ayatollahs, that is, the religious ministers who

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were in Iran' s power,
said that the sky would cry blood sounded

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00:44:37.679 --> 00:44:43.480
more like Iranian revenge than a Libyan
attack. But, of course, it

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00:44:43.519 --> 00:44:46.000
all meant that it was a livio
who had organized this. And there was

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00:44:46.039 --> 00:44:51.000
a lot of silence. But as
time went by, the questions kept growing.

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And let me plant two or three. The first of them is how

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on a commercial Christmas flight one hundred
and sixty- five wave passengers seal their

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00:45:00.320 --> 00:45:05.440
last- minute ticket. That'
s not usually the case. Christmas planes

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00:45:05.519 --> 00:45:09.239
are full. People want to reach
their destination, celebrate, etcetera. But

501
00:45:09.280 --> 00:45:15.000
in addition, there was also the
big question who were the ones who had

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00:45:15.000 --> 00:45:20.320
cancelled and obviously, a very strong
evidence was jumping. First, most of

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00:45:20.360 --> 00:45:24.239
the staff at the U S Embassy
in Moscow traveled for Christmas to the United

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00:45:24.400 --> 00:45:30.840
States and cancelled their ticket. Being
in Frankfurt, I mean, they were

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00:45:30.840 --> 00:45:35.199
already on their way to Hidrow.
When they cancelled the flight, the entire

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00:45:35.239 --> 00:45:39.639
South African diplomatic delegation going to the
United Nations for a matter of Namibian independence

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00:45:39.719 --> 00:45:47.440
got off the plane. The ambassador
of Lebanon, that is, the US

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00:45:47.519 --> 00:45:54.719
ambassador to Lebanon in Lebanon, cancelled
his flight. After that, a series

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00:45:54.800 --> 00:46:01.199
of characters belonging to the U S
party cancelled the trip. The trip was

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00:46:01.280 --> 00:46:06.239
the son of the assistant to the
director of the FEB and the United States

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00:46:06.239 --> 00:46:09.280
of America. A rebel last name
guy canceled his flight. Last minute at

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the airport. He cancelled all this
immediately. He raised more than one eyebrow

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00:46:15.880 --> 00:46:21.480
in suspicion that it was happening.
But, of course, that was not

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the end of the matter. The
matter became much more complicated, because years

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00:46:24.320 --> 00:46:30.639
later a series of documents would begin
to emerge that were classified as top secret.

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On November 2, the Federal Aviation
Agency in the United States issued an

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alert for possible explosive radios, i
e explosive gittachi recorders, because specifically that

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00:46:45.920 --> 00:46:54.159
because they had discovered in Frankfurt a
car of an Iranian terrorist belonging to an

519
00:46:54.239 --> 00:47:00.000
Iranian movement and in his cajuel there
was an explosive device instantly on a Hitachi

520
00:47:00.079 --> 00:47:06.840
radio recorder, the same model that
shot down the plane over Ocherby. The

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00:47:06.840 --> 00:47:12.760
warning became stronger. The 17th was
an urgent alert for an imminent explosive attack.

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00:47:13.840 --> 00:47:16.719
On 18 November, the alert was
no longer opened. It was direct

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against Panama, the most emblematic line
in the United States of America at the

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00:47:22.039 --> 00:47:30.199
time, but on December 5 the
alert was even clearer. They had detected

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00:47:30.280 --> 00:47:36.000
a phone call in Helsinki, where
an anonymous subject warned of a direct attack

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00:47:36.719 --> 00:47:42.880
on a flight from Panama that he
would make from Heathrow in London two weeks

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00:47:43.000 --> 00:47:45.199
after that day, that is,
on the twenty- first of December.

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00:47:47.079 --> 00:47:52.440
But that' s not the end
of the matter. The testimony of the

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00:47:52.519 --> 00:47:54.719
subject of Malta, that is,
the one who sold the clothes was,

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00:47:55.079 --> 00:47:59.519
moreover, conspicuous. The guy couldn' t find out who the terrorist was,

531
00:47:59.719 --> 00:48:04.280
but until the fourth time they showed
him the pictures in a row of

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00:48:04.280 --> 00:48:07.440
prisoners, he wasn' t able
to identify him. Second, the suitcase.

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00:48:07.519 --> 00:48:12.760
According to the first experts, the
suitcase should have been in the middle

534
00:48:12.800 --> 00:48:15.840
of the cargo compartment from bottom to
top in half, as it came from

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00:48:16.159 --> 00:48:24.760
Frankfurt. Interconnection flights had arrived after
baggage had begun to be loaded. Therefore,

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00:48:24.960 --> 00:48:30.400
the first suitcases were the suitcases that
had been brought up in Heathrow,

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00:48:30.920 --> 00:48:36.480
England, and then the suitcases that
had come from other places. However,

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00:48:36.840 --> 00:48:40.079
when the experts begin to analyze further, they realize that the only way to

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00:48:40.119 --> 00:48:45.039
destroy the lower bulkheads opened the cabin
and take it off is by being below.

540
00:48:47.440 --> 00:48:52.679
The remains of the luggage container showed
that the explosion had occurred below.

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00:48:52.840 --> 00:48:57.599
Therefore, the suitcase had been put
in Heathrow. He had not traveled from

542
00:48:57.679 --> 00:49:04.079
Malta or Frankfurt. It had been
put there. By chance, the two

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00:49:05.079 --> 00:49:10.119
platforms known as Tarmac of Iranian lines
and Panam are together on Headhroop in nineteen

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00:49:10.199 --> 00:49:15.800
hundred and eighty- eight, but
there was another problem. Several technicians of

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00:49:15.840 --> 00:49:22.679
the company had indicated that small carts
where luggage was kept were exposed had been

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00:49:22.719 --> 00:49:30.559
about four hours without being accommodated by
anyone for any reason. But it'

547
00:49:30.639 --> 00:49:36.320
s not over there yet. As
the days passed and the number of cancellations

548
00:49:36.440 --> 00:49:42.000
became evident. Something else was also
evident. On board the plane were at

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00:49:42.119 --> 00:49:52.239
least five U S CIA agents travelling
to people who were in charge of analyzing

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00:49:53.039 --> 00:50:00.280
Iranian terrorism and were based in Lebanon
and who were also investigating drug trafficking into

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00:50:00.280 --> 00:50:07.119
the Middle East and the Middle East
into the U S, which served to

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00:50:07.880 --> 00:50:14.679
finance the counterrevolutions that the U S
was shutting down. The only prisoner convicted

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00:50:14.800 --> 00:50:21.800
of the attack was Almagraje. He
did not agree to have been the perpetrator

554
00:50:21.800 --> 00:50:24.400
of the attack, he did not
agree to have planned anything. But why

555
00:50:24.519 --> 00:50:32.639
this. All this raised many suspicions
and all arrows pointed to Iran. Iran

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00:50:32.719 --> 00:50:38.480
had the motive. An American ship
had shot down its plane, killing two

557
00:50:38.519 --> 00:50:44.880
hundred and ninety passengers, or I
don' t know how many more,

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00:50:44.880 --> 00:50:46.199
in a declared belligerent attitude. Why, because the ship had invaded Iranian territorial

559
00:50:46.280 --> 00:50:52.960
waters. The plane was on a
commercial route away from the ship, not

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00:50:52.039 --> 00:50:58.639
approaching, as he originally said to
the captain, but moving away and still

561
00:50:58.639 --> 00:51:00.239
shot it down. Knowing that it
was a plane like a Nero with a

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00:51:00.280 --> 00:51:05.840
transponder that identified his address name,
flight, etcetera. But not only that,

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00:51:05.880 --> 00:51:09.000
but the American President awarded the captain
a medal for the downing of the

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00:51:09.039 --> 00:51:14.119
plane. This was in offense after
offense after offense against Iran. All arrows

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00:51:14.119 --> 00:51:17.400
point that way. The Hitachi found
in the wreckage of the plane. This

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00:51:17.559 --> 00:51:22.440
Cassetera radio recorder, as you want
to call it, had been sold to

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00:51:22.519 --> 00:51:28.280
Iran. The suitcase wasn' t
where they said it wasn' t.

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00:51:28.880 --> 00:51:36.039
Everything focused on a conspiracy theory and
what is this good, very simple for

569
00:51:36.599 --> 00:51:40.760
the great conspiracy theorists, the United
States wanted to create a false flag.

570
00:51:43.800 --> 00:51:49.079
What does this mean to blame Iran
for the attack on Panama' s one

571
00:51:49.199 --> 00:51:53.239
hundred and three flight, most of
which were American passengers. In an emblematic

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00:51:53.360 --> 00:51:58.559
line and therefore and as a result, attack Iran and invade it, end

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00:52:00.159 --> 00:52:06.159
the problem. Then they could do
whatever they wanted with Iraq. Why they

574
00:52:06.159 --> 00:52:10.719
didn' t. And here comes
another conspiracy theory And it' s very

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00:52:10.800 --> 00:52:19.039
interesting because by chance, at the
same time Iran was acquiring equipment for nuclear

576
00:52:19.039 --> 00:52:27.639
production. The U S valued whether
or not it could attack Iran. The

577
00:52:28.159 --> 00:52:32.840
operation was probably already fully planned,
fully indicated. The downing of the Iranian

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00:52:34.000 --> 00:52:37.159
plane was deliberate, not casual.
It wasn' t an accident. Obviously,

579
00:52:37.280 --> 00:52:40.519
it wasn' t a mix-
up. They had shot down the

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00:52:42.440 --> 00:52:45.920
Iranian plane to provoke an Iranian attack. The Iranian attack did not occur and,

581
00:52:46.079 --> 00:52:52.679
in fact, the ayatóla homeinie in
one of so many interventions clearly said

582
00:52:52.840 --> 00:52:59.159
that they were not in a hurry
to take revenge based on a verse of

583
00:52:59.159 --> 00:53:05.960
the Koran. Therefore, Iran was
not then the one who shot him down

584
00:53:06.039 --> 00:53:10.920
on board. There were four U
S agents, there were many other people.

585
00:53:14.360 --> 00:53:17.360
The conspiracy theory points to the fact
that they themselves took him down,

586
00:53:17.559 --> 00:53:22.920
as Iran did not attack them.
They alone attacked to invade Iran. They

587
00:53:22.960 --> 00:53:29.559
probably changed their minds because in a
thousand nine hundred and ninety- one the

588
00:53:29.599 --> 00:53:32.760
famous desert storm occurred. The U
S invaded Iraq and changed its target.

589
00:53:35.559 --> 00:53:42.480
Of course all this is just theories
and conspiracy or not. The fact is

590
00:53:42.480 --> 00:53:49.639
that people, children, adults,
travelers, very interesting characters who went there

591
00:53:49.679 --> 00:54:12.880
lost their lives in a completely absurd
spy game. You don' t think

592
00:54:12.920 --> 00:54:16.559
so, and after discussing these very
gruesome issues, I think the best thing

593
00:54:16.599 --> 00:54:20.119
we can do is to send some
greetings and congratulations. First of all,

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00:54:20.239 --> 00:54:22.960
we' re going to send a
big greeting and a huge congratulations to Lily

595
00:54:22.960 --> 00:54:28.039
the Garza. He' s celebrating
his birthday and we' re very happy

596
00:54:28.159 --> 00:54:30.519
to be accompanied by his uncle Patrick, who' s always in the chat

597
00:54:30.559 --> 00:54:32.519
room who' s a great friend
of this channel. He asked us to

598
00:54:32.599 --> 00:54:37.000
congratulate him and we sent him this
loving, strong hug. They' re

599
00:54:37.000 --> 00:54:39.840
a big family and we really appreciate
them. And after that, well,

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00:54:40.360 --> 00:54:47.519
we have to send some other greetings
to Oliver Zaguerube madeel for Osiris Yamilet Fines,

601
00:54:49.119 --> 00:54:53.039
for Susana Tapia and her brothers who
are in Atlanta, for Edwin Valdez

602
00:54:53.159 --> 00:54:58.440
and her wolfies. They hear us
while they work. They have a furniture

603
00:54:58.440 --> 00:55:00.239
repair shop and they' re listening
to us while they' re working.

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00:55:00.679 --> 00:55:06.039
For Dante López Rosas, he was
listening to us when we were fourteen years

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00:55:06.039 --> 00:55:07.400
old when we were there on the
radio. Now when he' s 30,

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00:55:07.880 --> 00:55:10.360
he keeps listening to us. But
now in the channel man Dante we

607
00:55:10.440 --> 00:55:14.719
send you a big hug. Dude. Thank you so much for joining us

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00:55:14.719 --> 00:55:17.440
for so many years. Francisco Flores
Sanchez. He is a person with visual

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00:55:17.519 --> 00:55:23.440
impairment and likes this channel because he
listens to us. That is the idea,

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00:55:23.679 --> 00:55:28.440
precisely to make Francisco' s idea
We are very happy that he has

611
00:55:28.480 --> 00:55:32.519
encouraged us to write and that he
talks about this because for us the fact

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00:55:32.599 --> 00:55:39.920
that we are radio people and now
being on YouTube forces us to remain much

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00:55:40.239 --> 00:55:45.159
more auditory than visual. There are
some people who consider it inappropriate for me

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to be here talking to them for
an hour and only to look at my

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ugly face. Well, what happens
is that we understand that many people put

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the video and are listening to us
while they are in the office, while

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they are cooking, while they are
restoring furniture or those people who cannot see

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us and that we are fascinated to
know the family Salgado Ocampo and Ocampo Magdaleno,

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who listen to us, also Christian
Monzón and his father- in-

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law Manuel, who are in Argentina
and hear us together. How beautiful Isabel

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Arias and Freddy and Romero from Caracas, Venezuela, her husband Andrés, their

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children Ami and Max, who are
in Chile and from there listen to us.

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And well, we also want to
send other dear birthdays Héctor Hyat,

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friend who has accompanied us for a
long time, birthday this month. A

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big hug, Hector. Thank you
for always accompanying us creations. Estela and

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her granddaughter who also accompany us Guadalupe
delÁngel and Daniel Chaires, Emilio and

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María Flores, the mother of Diana
Bendaño Cisbelis, who also celebrates their birthday.

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For all of them goes this hug
very affectionate. A great congratulations that

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is a great year and I want
to especially thank all the people who,

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with their donations through either chat,
during the programs or in the videos later,

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support us to support this project.
Miriam Maxin Melgosa, Rodolfo Hollos,

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Juan Manuel Martínez, Maite Valdés,
Jaime Ricardo Orrego, Alicia, Judicio Patrick

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Rosas, Alma Hernández, Guadalupe Garza, Otivo that is always out there.

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Raúl Jiménez, Gonzalo Barrios, Guillevalda, Alonso Monse Blanco, Corazoncita full María

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izaguirre joel Villarreal, of course,
Patrick Rosas, Patricia Cortés, Liliana Díaz,

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Carina Gutiérrez. Thank you so much
for so much generosity and for supporting

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us. And we also want to
send a very special message because Toto Kai

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wants to tell Cintia Nutsen that he
has him in love. Thank you very

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much. They are two very beloved
followers of the Canal. Maria Lerena Gómez,

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who is in California, also thank
you very much for joining us very

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good night until soon