A Bold Peace | movie | 2016 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

One nation's quest to abandon the fever of war. | dG1fWTZiM1VpcTROVUE

Transcript

00:00 We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat.

00:06 We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.

00:12 This is not a way of life at all.

00:15 Is there no other way the world may live?

00:20 [Music]

00:33 He's a man who is so brave.

00:37 That's why he was able to do something that is unique in the history of mankind.

00:46 He first disarms the communists, then he eliminates the army,

00:51 and then he disarms his own army that was expecting that he would make war

00:55 against the dictators in the rest of Central America.

00:58 The most important consequence of not having an armed force in Costa Rica

01:02 was the financing of public institutions, and most of them related to social well-being.

01:08 The social reforms that Don Jose Pepe Figueres initiated in the '40s

01:13 were very much like the New Deal.

01:17 And so their experiment, their social democratic experiment, has been marvelous.

01:22 They shot for the pie in the sky, and I think they've achieved incredible things.

01:26 We don't have an army, and that means we don't have to be afraid of the army.

01:32 The United States channeled all the money to support the countries, to support civil wars,

01:38 so therefore the United States is accountable for almost 30 years of bloodshed in Central America.

01:45 You know, the U.S. is a country that was born fighting.

01:49 Violence does not, in any moment, prevent more violence or cure a society of violence.

01:56 We must stay on the offensive. We must be determined, and we must be relentless.

02:02 We will be relentless in defense of our citizens.

02:07 [crowd cheering]

02:09 The world doesn't need to spend $1.3 trillion in arms and soldiers.

02:16 The U.S. can have a peaceful society, and if the U.S. can do it, then it will be a peaceful world.

02:26 We don't want to participate in wars. We want to develop pacific ways of solving conflicts.

02:33 Countries need a mission to follow, that everybody gets involved and will work for the same idea.

02:41 There are one billion people who have no access to clean water.

02:45 With a tiny percentage of military spending, we could bring potable water to everybody on this planet.

02:53 [music]

03:07 (music fades)