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More about “Silenced Crops”

We are almost done with the filming. I wanted to share with you this picture. We have 66 gigabytes of video. I do not even have access to it, as the Venezuelan internet speed is so slow.

I has taken a long time, a lot more than we thought, but it is a much larger project than we thought it’d be. It is a better documentary, longer and more complex, with more people.

I am humbled, it has been a long road, but we are almost at the end. I just hope that the long night that my people are going through ends soon and we can see the dawn.

 

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Silenced Crops First Trailer!

Recently I was able to show for the first time this trailer of Silenced Crops. This is what I said, roughly, as I didn’t write my speech, I said it as it came out, spontaneously:

Sixteen years ago we had advanced biotechnology in Venezuela. Today, we are starving.

More than 60% of Venezuelans cannot eat three times a day. I am not telling you this because I read the statistics, I am telling you this because some friends and relatives are going through this right now.

16 years ago, a group of zealots destroyed a field of transgenic papayas and managed to make fierce opposition to GMOs part of the government policy.

Now, I won’t tell you that we are starving because we don’t use GMOs. That would not be true. But there is a connection between the food crisis and the GMO rejection. Hunger is what happens when your agricultural and economic policies are not based on facts, science and evidence. It’s what happens when your policies are based on rumors, lies, dogma and blind ideology.

I am making this documentary not only to tell you what happened 16 years ago, but to show that hunger is the price that people pay for the irrationality of their rulers.

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Silenced Crops First Preview

Sorry for the delay, but here’s the first sneak peek of Silenced Crops with subtitles!

We are still filming, this is just a very rough, very preliminary sample of the documentary, but I am very happy about it and I want to show it to you. I am proud of this work and I want to tell the story of how the promising Venezuelan biotech was destroyed by fanaticism and the wrong decisions, by policy making based on ideology and not facts.

Silenced Crops Preview

I managed to track one of the main activists anti GM papaya, but she refuses to talk to us. I want her side of the story too, but nothing I can do if she refuses to be interviewed.

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