The program is named: COMANDO ACTUALIDAD (CURRENTLY COMMAND) and today it will talk us about some foreigners who a day they decided to live in Spain.
The presenter takes over control of the Naval Base Rota (Cadiz, South of Spain) and talk to the soldier, who is on duty. He tells her:”Good morning, Miss: May I have your paperwork? ". And she says," Are we going to step on American floor ...?”, to which the soldier replies: "Spanish floor".
After that, the presenter speaks with another American soldier.She tells him: “Whole economy in the Base works with dollars” and he says: “With dollars, yes”.
After, a spanish woman says: “They come here to eat sausages; they like things from Germany.
After, it is asked: “What is Cricket for people from Pakistan?. And a man from Pakistan says: “It is a life”.
The presenter says: “They have become the place where they live in a small piece of their country”.
Another presenter says: “Here, in Mallorca, there is a great number of people from Germany, Is not it?”.; and a girl answers: “I think that 90.000 residents”.
After, we see a man painting a house. The presenter says: “You are preparing the house, because you want to rent to american people”. And the young woman, owner of this house says: “Yes, to American people.About 1500 Euros per month, we can rent it”.
Another lady says, in a supermarket: “I'll make meatloaf fish. The Norwegian mayones ....”. And the presenter says: “All we see here are products from America”. A sir says: “That they have no sensation of notto be in their country”.
A lady is asked: “Why they choose us?”. And she says: “Food, people…we are kind for them and they live happy”.
Another girl says: “Imagine it: with a retirement from there: 6000 0r 8000 dollars…..A ticket of bus: in Finland, 25 Euros and in Spain, 14”.
Another presenter asks a man in a restaurant: “If you had no colony from Norway….., your bussines….” , the man answers: “It should not go forward”.
The ypung presenter man says the tittle of the program, today: “Better that at home”.
The program starts in Rota (Cadiz, Southwestern Spain). The presenter says: “More than 6000 people from NorthAmerica will occupy the Naval Base, upon completion of the Missile Shield despleiegue. This means that the population of the Base will be multiplicated by two. While, the neighbors of the village cast accounts”.
She is now going to a Real State.She says them: “Hello, good morning.You are a Real State. Are there many more real states in Rota?”. And the Manager says:“Yes, there is any real state”.
The presenter aks him: “How many real states work for American people?”. He answers: “Right now…all of them”. And she asks him: “How is the home that American people are searching?”. He says: “The do not want the typical house: a floor in a building….They want a single family home, semi-detached house, with patio, basement ... big house”. The presenter asks a girl who is working in the Real State: “An American pay the same than a spanis for the renting of these houses?”; and the girl answers: “Not at all”. The presenter asks: “Pay they more…, how much?”.; and the girl answers: “Too more…..1.200 Euros per month”; the presenter asks: “How much a Spanish should pay?”; the girl answers: “But…500 or 600 Euros. In fact, many Spanish families decide to live by rent in another cheaper houses and renting their big houses to American people”. The Manager explains: “They have a subsidy of the Base, then directly does not hurt perhaps to the pocket”.
The presenter go to see a house to rent. She talks to the owner; the presenter says: “Hello…you are Charo.Is you the owner of this house?” and Charo answers: “Yes, I am”.The neighbors say that you are preparing this house, because you want to rent it to the American”. Charo says: “Yes, we have put the offer in the “Housing” –it is an Agency, in the Base, where you put your offer and the tell you if your house can be rented. This house, according of the zone where it is, the meters…..we can rent it on 1.100 Euros per month. The good thing is that they pay surely each month. Here there is a wonderful beach –one of the best in Andalussia—and the Naval Base of Rota, that although many people criticize, it lets to eat to many people…, indirectly or directly, because the taxi drivers eat from that; for example, we are owner of a butcher shop and if the American people go to a bar to eat a burger, we are making money indirectly”. Charo tells the painter: “That it is uniform. All the hands that it is needed; if you have to buy another kilogram, you do it.What we do?, this have to be perfect”.
Charo tells the presenter: “I am going to show you the house”. The presenter asks Charo: “How many meters the house has?”. Charo answers: “Less than 120 meters.This is the living. Ussually, all american want to have dog; but it does not matter…., I …even a cocodrile, because they pay all they break”. The presenter asks Charo: “How much money do you are spending?”; Charo answers: “But…the paint has been 2.000 Euros.But…if you want that the house is well, you have to spend money”.
They go up to the roof.Charo says that American love roof, because the make barbecue”. The presenter asks: “Some of these houses, which we are seeing, are being rented to American?”. And Charo answers: “Also. Here a couple we know lived. Those houses are around 2.000 or 2.500 Euros. They make their own life: they work, work and work. At 8 p.m. are sleeping the children and them; they have not much life, it is not same than us”.
After that, the presenter go into a car dealer. She is about a couple of vendors and asks: “Is this one a car dealer for American soldiers, as put on the door?”. And the girl answers: “For members who are in the Army”. Then, the presenter asks: “Here a Spanish can not buy?”.And the girl says: “No, it is a program, for Americans, that BMW made after the Second World War, according to the service by America; so, if the soldiers are working out of America, they can get a car cheaper”.
The presenter also inside the car dealer asks an American soldier: “Is it more difficult to get a car in United States…, there they are more expensive?”; and he answers: “Much more expensive”. The girl, who are selling cars, says: “24.700 dollars, that in Euros are 20.000”.
The presenter talks to the soldier again: “Is this the first car that you buy?”. And he answers: “The second one”; the presenter asks him: “Have you bought another one in this car dealer” and he answers: “Yes. I bought before, whe I was alone; but now I have wife, a girl and they gave me a better car for them”. The presenter tells him: “Your wife is from Rota” and he says: “She is from Jerez”. The presenter asks him: “Can you take this car to USA?”; he answers: “Yes”; the presenter follows: “They take it gratis on the ship”; he answers: “Yes”.
After that, the presenter asks another girl, who is working in the Base: “How long time are you working in the Base?”; she answers: “6 months”; the presenter tells her: “And do you already want to buy a car?”; the girl answers: “This one”. The presenter asks the Manager of the car dealer: “Las year how many cars you bought?; he says: “300 cars”.The presenter says: “One each day”.
After, the presenter says: “The Base of Rota occupies an area of 2.300 hectares, a perimeter of 26 km and has a population of 20.500 inhabitants. As you are seeing, each day 18.000 vehicles go into the Base, because many people work inside. The presenter talks to the soldier, in the Control of the Base, and she asks him: “Are we going to step on American floor …...?, to which the soldier replies: "Spanish floor". Then, she says: “Let us see how people live in the interior of this area”.
Inside the Base, the presenter goes to a big shop. She talks to an American soldier who is buying; the presenter tells him: “You are buying a coffee maker” and he says: “This one is for the job, for the job”. The presenter says: “You pay it with dollars…” and he answers: “Yes, yes, with dollars”; the presenter follows: “The whole economy in the Base operates with dollars”; he says: “With dollars, yes”. Now she talks to a sir, who is working in the shop; she says: “What we find in the Base is much cheaper; he answers: “Much cheaper and moreover we have a lot of offers”. The presenter talks to the soldier again and asks him: “Do you buy all the technology in Rota?...and you already go back to USA with the suitecases full”.; he says: “Yes, the suitcases full…, yes”. She asks him: “Do you like Rota?” and he answers: “I love it, I love it”. She asks him agai: “Do you feel here like at your home?” and he answers: “Yes, like at home, like Puerto Rico”. The presenter goes to talk to the sir who works in the shop; she tells him: “Everything come from United States?; he answers: “Yes, from USA”; and she follows: “And it is a technology cheaper”. And he says: “Besides that, they pay no taxation. We the people who work here can not buy anything; only authorized the military personnel who are stationed in the Base and the civilian personnel stationed at the Base too.
Now, the presenter goes to talk to the Director of the company shop in the Base.She tells him: ·Hello, I am Sara, from Comando Actualidad and he answers: “Hello, Rubén Nadal”; she tells him: “You are the Director of the company store”. She says: “Everything we see here are northamerican product, as you are telling us, and the prices in dollars”. And Rubén tells her: “I sell one million dollars each month”; she is surprised and asks: “One million dollards in food each month?”; and he answers: “Yes”. And she asks: “And also medicines…..: aspirin…, this is Pharmaceuticals. Medicines come from there, Do not they?”. The sir, who works in the store explains her: “Both this company and the Navy change intend to bring them a piece of America where the American people are, in order that they have no feeling of being out of home.
Afeter, the presenter talks to a Spanish gir, who is working in the store. Sara tells her: “Are you Spanish?”; she answers: “Yes, and American”. And Sara (the presenter) follows: “And you are here packaging everything the clients carry on”. The girl answers: “Our job is package the things and we take them to their cars and our pay is based on tips they leave us”. Saras tells here: “This boy has just left you one dollar”; the girl says: “Yes”; Sara asks her: “How much you got today?”; and she answers: “Today has been a very good day…..I have…around 40 dollars… in the lasts 3 hours”.Sara tells her: “Good, it is well. How much you get at the end of month?; the girl laugh and says: “800 dollars working only….”….; Sara surprised says: “Three hours….and a little while doing this one?....it is a good job….”. Sara asks her: “Did you bron in the Base?”; and she answers: “Yes. Also my son was born in the Base and my father too. We are the only who were been three generations who were born in the Base”. Sara asks her: “Is your father an American”; and she answers: “Yes, my father was a military and now he is a contractor for the Base”.
After, Sara goes to talk to the Captain Scott; then, she goes to talk to a Secretary and tells her: “Hello, we wants to talk to the Captain Scott”. Sara talks to him and answers him: “Who are the main problems you have to face every day?”. She also tells him: “We have an administrative question: are we stepping on Spanish soil or American soil?”.
Now, Sara talks to two young men. They are playing golf. One of the men is telling to the other one: “This tournament is going to be through the field”; then, Sara tells them: “Speaking Spanish?” and one of them answers: “Well.., half and half”; then, Sara asks him: “Have you born in United States?” and he answers: “I was born in United States, my father is an American but my mother is from Jerez de la Frontera”. After, one of them says: “The lucky with the tournament in the weekend; we hope that, we hope that the weather is good”.And Sara tells them: “Enjoy you!, thank you very much, bye”.
Then, one of the young men tells Sara: “But…let us go to the gym of the Base!” And while they arrive there, Sara asks him: “Are there hospitals, is there a fire department?” and he answers: “Yes, look at there. Moreover, the firetrucks are the typical from America”. She tells him: “Eric: it is not easy that a camera go inside to record the everyday life; is not it?.It is difficult in the Base” and he answers: “So difficult.In fact, I am going half afraid, because the people of Securityis going to stop me and is going to tell me : What are you doing?. The Base is one of the largest for extension of Europe; it was a Spanish government expropriation to Rota and it is a lot, a lot of ground”. They have just arrived to the gym. Sara asks him: “How will the Base will respond to the arrival of all these new soldiers?” and he answers: “We are buying a new equipment, renovating buildings” and she says: “And besides hiring Spanish people, right?, and he answers: “Yes, here we have a rule, which was signed among the Spanish Ministry of Defense and the American one, that says that for every 3 Americans employed must have seven Spanish”.
After that, Sara went to talk to another American sir in the Base. She tells him: “Hello.., Sara from Comando Actualidad” and he answers: “Hello…, nice to meet you” and Sara tells him: “I was searching you. You are Director of Future Operations” and he says: “Yes. Today we have a kind of training of Martial Artes. They are doing this practice”. And Sara tells him: “These instructors come from United States” and he says: “Yes, they come from United States” and Sara follows: “And they travel for all the bases that U.S. has around the world” and he says: “Yes”.
Afeter, Sara went to the Library and she told to a spanish woman. Sara asked her: “Hello, you are Spanish.How long time you are here?” and she answered: “I am 17 years; there is a school in the Base, Institute and University” and Sara adds: “And Nursery” and the woman says: “And nursery”.
Now, Sara talks to another Spanish girl; Sara asks her: “Salaries are highest, here in the Base?, The American people win more than the Spanish one? And the girl answers: “Doing the same job, yes. We are a labor personnel, working for the American department of Defense, through the Spanish Ministry of Defense”. Sara says: “You are paid by United States, but are labor perssonel of Spanish Defense”.
Afeter that, Sara goes to the Housing. Sara says there: “We are in the Housing: the placement agency, seeking accommodation for soldiers”, Sara asks to an American girl soldier: “How long time are you here” and she answers: “I came exactly today “ and Sara asks her: “From United States?” and she answered: “Yes”.Then, the lady who is working in the Housing asks to the soldier: “How many rooms you want?” and she answers: “Three”. Sara asks her: “Do you come alone or with family?” and she answers: “I came with my son. I am a single mother”.Sara asks her: “Where is your son?” and she answers: “In the school”. Sara look at a house choosed by the lady and says: “Nice, Is not it?” and the soldier answers: “Yes, it is very nice”.
Now, Sara talks to another man: “The employees of this department are currently showing house, now” and he says: “Showing or inspecting new houses”.They go out and he tells her: “This is one of the developments that we have. Here there is people who are for three years and they do not go out of the Base; young people, who never went out of United States. If they have everything here, perhaps they have not going out. I'm from Philadelphia, but I was married to a girl from Cordoba, many years ago”. Sara asks him: “Where do you live?” and he answers: “I live in Chipiona, right now”. They go to see a home: He says: “We have just reform this house”. Sara tells him: “This is the typical from America: with two doors…, with a special door against mosquitos. And he says: “This was two houses but we united them”; he shows her the house and says: “This is the living room and there you have a bathroom, the dining room and the kitchen” and Sara says: “I call the attention of these plugs, these are very American”. He tells her: “All the light in the base is 120 volts and 60 hertz. This is the output of the main bedroom to the garden, it has a view to the sea”. Sara says: “You have just reformed these houses, but, whe the new people who will come here….” And he says: “Waiting list, waiting list” and Sara surprised says: “Yes?”.
Here you have the link to watch the program:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ymZGyrPoKc
To be continued……..
I hope that you liked the first part.
Till soon, kind regards,
Luis.
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