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00:00This is the story of a family that was forced to leave their home in the middle of the night.
00:19On Sundays we get up at 10 in the morning because it's Sunday.
00:24I like it because it's not so easy to do it during the week.
00:27We do it because it's Saturday or Sunday.
00:36Well, the truth is that around here, there aren't many things that we can hold on to.
00:42Well, to be honest, we hardly go to the movies because the tickets are so expensive.
00:57Don't forget to pass the boards.
00:59No, no, no.
01:01Ok, let's go.
01:06Many, for example, from the center of the country, or where there is no sea,
01:11many come here to cool off.
01:14Also foreigners come to enjoy the beaches.
01:18When I was little, I didn't know that the beaches were private.
01:22There are children here in Quintana Roo who don't know the sea.
01:25The beach for Mexicans, for us, has not allowed us.
01:29Because here we don't even have public access to the beaches,
01:33even though we have a few meters.
01:36They use our roots, they use our names.
01:40It sounds like a very important name, to say the Riviera Maya.
01:46But where are the Mayas?
01:48A Maya can't see it on the beach.
01:50A Maya, a native of the region, can't see it on the beach.
01:55They catalog us, they almost sign us as criminals.
02:21We were anxiously waiting for Friday to go out and relax.
02:26We were waiting for Friday to go dancing.
02:29From La Maquila, directly to the dance halls in the center.
02:33The Joyce Place.
02:35The Hilbert, the Rio Bravo.
02:37At six in the morning, the dance halls were closed.
02:40At six.
02:41And I would go out until six in the morning.
02:43There is no way to explain the tranquility that I had never experienced before.
02:47I remember when the girls started to disappear.
02:52You live in fear.
02:54They were lost and they were found in the cotton field.
02:58A friend of ours disappeared.
03:01You would come home on Friday.
03:05I was so afraid that I didn't want to live in my house anymore.
03:08It's not like it used to be.
03:10At eight o'clock at night, it was closed, you couldn't go anywhere.
03:13No, it's not like that anymore.
03:16It's not like that anymore.