Environmental Issues In The Movie Tambien La Lluvia

Over the course of history the Natives or Indians as most people identify them as, have endured abuse and discrimination. Being part of lands that contain valuable environmental resources has targeted them for mistreatment. A mistreatment that happened everywhere they lived and still continues to happen today. In the movie “Tambien la lluvia”, it ironically depicts the exploitation and violence towards the native when Christopher Columbus “found America”. In addition, it portrays the real life struggles that the Bolivian natives suffered because of the lack of water. The poverty and ignorance of this people had labeled them as irrelevant individuals of society. However, this irrelevant people where tired of the discrimination, tired of watching their kids go without water and tired of watching …show more content…
Company Bechtel assigned a long-term contract in the region of Cochabamba, which is the third largest city in Bolivia many issues emerged (Assies 18). This company took control of all of Cochabamba’s water, even rainwater. The company had the legal right to reposes debtors’ homes and to auction them if they didn’t pay the debt. People where forced to make choices: from eating less, not sending children to school, or not even going to the hospital when feeling ill. As stated by the character Daniel in the movie Tambien la lluvia, “water is life”. This demonstrates that people where willing to fight and risk their life because if they didn’t they might still die without water. After being abused for a long time the people began fighting back. The people were seeking water and in response obtained tear gases, the people wanted justice and in return obtained bullets. As a result of these immoral acts many individuals got injured. In the fight for their water rights, people lost arms, legs, where left handicapped and in the worst-case death emerged. However, this only infuriated the people more and no matter what the consequences where they refused to