Que hago yo aquí
What leads a Spaniard to live in Siberia? Why does a hotelier decide to settle in Ciudad Juárez where shootings are common? These questions will be answered in What am I doing here, the new news program that Cuatro will broadcast starting this Sunday. With a format similar to that of Spaniards around the world or Traveling streets, the reporter Elena Ortega has visited Spaniards who emigrated to peculiar or extreme places, either because of their climate, insecurity or lack of resources.
In the program, produced by Mandarina, Ortega has lived for 10 or 12 days with people who live in landscapes very different from those of his origin. In the first program, for example, she will be in Siberia, a region that reaches 40 degrees below zero in winter and with a population density of three inhabitants per square kilometer. She will live there with Juan and Cecilia, a couple who are raising her seven children on this stage; Ricardo, a journalist who has been working in the steppe for five years; Paula, a Spanish teacher, and Sandra, an anthropologist specializing in the study of ethnic minorities. "There are two profiles, the vocational and the romantic," explains the reporter, "some came there for work and others for love."
Ortega affirms that they have been brutal and intense experiences due to the harshness of the areas she visited. From Siberia she takes the way to warm the body of the Siberians: "The population easily falls into alcoholism because for them it is the easiest way to warm up. While a kilo of tomatoes costs three euros, a bottle of vodka does not reach one euro, "she points out.
But Siberia is only the first scale of the six that they propose. The program will also end up in Chernobyl, where Raúl, a Spanish cementer, participates in the construction of a new sarcophagus for the damaged nuclear power plant; in the Atacama desert, in Chile, where an Asturian construction company has lived for years in a climate so dry that it even makes the nose bleed; in the Mexican Ciudad Juárez and in the Pacific ring of fire, where they contacted a Spanish survivor of the 2004 tsunami who lives in Indonesia.
