A CRISE DA ESPANHA (e o efeito no Brasil) — Transcript

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1. 0:02Hey guys, I'm Ran Santos, coming to you
2. 0:05from a spot facing one of Spain's
3. 0:07landmarks, Barceloneta Beach, also
4. 0:10known as the Mediterranean Copacabana,
5. 0:13the busiest beach on this side of the
6. 0:15world. Today on Ryan News, I’m going
7. 0:19to read an article here from O Globo,
8. 0:23uh, which wasn't signed by anyone. So,
9. 0:25it's one of those articles from
10. 0:28international agencies that Brazilian
11. 0:31media outlets just copy, thousands take
12. 0:36to the streets in over 50 Spanish
13. 0:39cities against the housing crisis after
14. 0:41Congress rejected emergency measures.
15. 0:47Pedro Sanchez's government measures
16. 0:49provided for protection against
17. 0:51evictions and rent renewals. In Madrid,
18. 0:54the government estimates a turnout of
19. 0:5670,000 protesters, while organizers
20. 0:59claim 500,000. Spain is very polarized,
21. 1:07just like Brazil, only both sides
22. 1:13suffer from the same thing. One of the
23. 1:18two sides is much more anti-immigrant
24. 1:20than the other. But look, it’s no use
25. 1:24for people to bash Pedro Sanchez, who
26. 1:27is the communist prime minister here.
27. 1:31It’s no use. And these protests in
28. 1:34Spain, why did they start? An 87-
29. 1:37year-old lady was evicted from the
30. 1:39apartment she had lived in for 70 years
31. 1:42, because she was only paying € 500
32. 1:47in rent. And the market rate in her
33. 1:50neighborhood is around € 2,000 in
34. 1:53rent. And then, ah, inflation, this and
35. 1:57that, you know. Hum. So, they managed
36. 2:00to legally get her evicted. The old
37. 2:02lady ended up dying, she had nowhere to
38. 2:04go, got sick, went to the hospital, and
39. 2:06died in the hospital. And that
40. 2:09triggered protests all over Spain. But
41. 2:12let's read this here. Tens of thousands
42. 2:17of people took to the streets of Madrid
43. 2:19and 50 other cities in Spain this
44. 2:21Saturday to protest against the housing
45. 2:24crisis and demand measures to curb
46. 2:26rising rents and protect tenants. Man,
47. 2:28I've already mentioned this in another
48. 2:30video. The building I live in,
49. 2:34throughout its entire existence, was a
50. 2:37middle-class building in a
51. 2:39lower-middle-class neighborhood. Here
52. 2:43in Barcelona, nobody wants to live near
53. 2:45the sea, because historically the
54. 2:49neighborhoods near the sea were
55. 2:50fishermen and Romani neighborhoods.
56. 2:54Okay? So, if you talk to an upper-class
57. 2:57person from Catalonia, man, they'll
58. 2:59live on the other side of the Diagonal,
59. 3:01further up the hill, literally. Whoever
60. 3:04is rich here lives on the hill. Eh, and
61. 3:08there is a second aggravating factor,
62. 3:10which is the fact that, man, nobody
63. 3:13wants to live near where tourists party
64. 3:15, drink alcohol, and use drugs. This
65. 3:20humble beach is the epicenter of all
66. 3:22this. It's as if it were Times Square,
67. 3:25like it really was in Rio de Janeiro,
68. 3:27Copacabana beach mixed with Pedra do
69. 3:29Sal. Mix that right there. It's
70. 3:32Barceloneta. Semicolon. Middle-class
71. 3:37building. Man, my rent here is all in,
72. 3:442800 € per month. For an American or
73. 3:50a northern European looking at my rent,
74. 3:52wow. Holy crap, man, you live in an
75. 3:54awesome apartment. It only has two
76. 3:56bedrooms. This is my old apartment,
77. 3:58which is a studio now, but here there
78. 4:01are two bedrooms, a large living room,
79. 4:04facing the sea, an absurd view of the
80. 4:06sunrise, damn. For 2800 you can't even
81. 4:11rent a studio in a bad neighborhood in
82. 4:14the United States. To give you an idea,
83. 4:18I had one, and I built a house on my
84. 4:20American father's land there, right?
85. 4:22Over in Los Angeles, in a black
86. 4:24neighborhood, it's Hood, Inglewood.
87. 4:29Rent is 3,000 for a back house in a bad
88. 4:32neighborhood. Here it's 28. Let's say
89. 4:37the dollar is one-to-one with the euro.
90. 4:392800 facing the sea. But by government
91. 4:47indices, people in this building
92. 4:49shouldn't be paying more than 100 €
93. 4:51per month. So, the person who rented
94. 4:57this apartment to me is, quote-unquote,
95. 4:59ripping me off, but I pay it with total
96. 5:01happiness. For me, it’s well worth
97. 5:04paying 2800 here. It’s just that my
98. 5:08Spanish neighbors pay 1,400, 1,500.
99. 5:12Around there, within the index. What
100. 5:15did they discover? Oh, if I rent to
101. 5:19foreigners, I can get double. And screw
102. 5:24the Spaniards. And so, what do people
103. 5:26try to do? Evict the Spaniards who have
104. 5:28been here for 20 years. Man, here I
105. 5:31have way more Americans in my building
106. 5:34than Spaniards. Already in the elevator
107. 5:39, common areas, I only hear American
108. 5:41English, Californian English. Why?
109. 5:44Because for a Californian, this is a
110. 5:46piece of cake. It’s like candy to a
111. 5:50baby. There's no way in the United
112. 5:54States you could pay, man, for an
113. 5:56apartment like this facing the sea, in
114. 5:58a normal, nice place, it would be about
115. 5:598, 9,000 in rent, on a good beach like
116. 6:01this. Around there. Let's keep reading.
117. 6:08In the capital, about 70,000 people
118. 6:10participated in the protest. According
119. 6:13to the deleg...Oh, another thing. Oh,
120. 6:15Ran, you're very rich because you pay
121. 6:19rent. How pretentious, how pathetic,
122. 6:24brothers and sisters, being a landlord
123. 6:28in Spain is a nightmare. Go look up
124. 6:33what "okupas" are. And me, a man who
125. 6:38travels to Brazil every month and posts
126. 6:41that he's in Brazil, would be a very
127. 6:44easy target for the okupas. To get a
128. 6:49squatter out of my property, it takes
129. 6:51months and maybe years and many, many
130. 6:54thousands of euros in lawyer fees,
131. 6:59communist country, you know? So, man,
132. 7:03um, whoever has money doesn't dare buy
133. 7:06in Spain, especially if they aren't
134. 7:08going to live there, won't stay there
135. 7:10for the rest of their life, you know?
136. 7:15Huh, the organizers, however, estimated
137. 7:17the presence of Ah, and another thing,
138. 7:19if I, if I were the owner of this place
139. 7:21here and wanted to rent it to someone,
140. 7:27I wouldn't be able to charge the price
141. 7:29I want. I would have to pull some
142. 7:31strings to charge the price I want,
143. 7:33just like the owner here did with me, I
144. 7:37would have to charge 100 euros. Well,
145. 7:43the organizers, however, estimated a
146. 7:45turnout of 500,000 protesters. The
147. 7:48marches held under the banner "Towards
148. 7:51a General Strike" started from the camp
149. 7:54maintained for a week by about 100
150. 7:56activists at Puerta del Sol, one of
151. 7:59Madrid's main squares. I believe that
152. 8:03these housing protests are neither
153. 8:05left-wing nor right-wing. That is the
154. 8:07problem. It's that everyone got
155. 8:10together to bash Pedro Sanchez. The
156. 8:14mobilization comes amid a housing
157. 8:17crisis that has worsened in recent
158. 8:19years and gained new momentum after the
159. 8:21eviction of 87-year-old Mar Carmen
160. 8:24Bascal. The retiree was removed from
161. 8:27the apartment where she had lived for
162. 8:29seven decades, after the company that
163. 8:31bought the property tried to raise the
164. 8:33rent she paid by 275%. The case turned
165. 8:37Bascal into a symbol of the crisis and
166. 8:39triggered a wave of protests across the
167. 8:41country. Protesters are demanding rent
168. 8:44reductions, protection against
169. 8:46evictions, and restrictions on
170. 8:47investment fund activities in the
171. 8:49housing market. This is happening in
172. 8:52Rio de Janeiro. So I really chose this
173. 8:56article today, not to be a national
174. 8:58correspondent journalist for Spain. Man
175. 9:02, the modus operandi is the modus
176. 9:04operandi of Rio de Janeiro. Housing in
177. 9:07Rio de Janeiro is becoming impossible
178. 9:10for someone under 50 to afford.
179. 9:14Impossible. Impossible. And so the
180. 9:17young person who wants to live in a
181. 9:19good neighborhood, they can no longer
182. 9:21live in Ipanema, or Leblon, or
183. 9:22Copacabana, or Botafogo. And then they
184. 9:26get pushed out to Gloria, Catete,
185. 9:33Flamengo, for an upper-middle-class
186. 9:35youth, because whoever is just starting
187. 9:37out will have to live in Gamboa,
188. 9:38downtown, or in São Cristóvão, you
189. 9:41know? And so, what is the problem in
190. 9:47Madrid and Barcelona? Tourist
191. 9:50apartments or apartments for gringos,
192. 9:56digital nomads, non-lucrative residency
193. 9:58, people who come from other countries
194. 10:00who have more money than the Spaniards.
195. 10:07And why in Spain, man? Because Spain is
196. 10:09the country where everyone wants to
197. 10:11live, just like Rio de Janeiro.
198. 10:12Everyone wants to live in Rio de
199. 10:13Janeiro. So you don't compete for an
200. 10:16apartment with the guy who is a lawyer,
201. 10:19the guy who is a civil servant, or the
202. 10:21guy who is an engineer. No. You compete
203. 10:25for an apartment with the guy who is
204. 10:27the son of the owner of Nestlé. People
205. 10:34want to have an apartment in Rio de
206. 10:36Janeiro, you get it? Why does everyone
207. 10:40want to live in Spain? Because it’s
208. 10:43an organized and warm country. If you
209. 10:47stop to think about it, there isn't
210. 10:49another country with a tropical
211. 10:51temperature that is as organized as
212. 10:53Spain. Name another country then.
213. 11:00Portugal. No. The difference in
214. 11:05civilization, organization, and
215. 11:06structure between Portugal and Spain is
216. 11:08something else. It starts with the
217. 11:12bureaucracy of getting a visa and
218. 11:13residency. What does Portugal compare
219. 11:17there with Portugal and Spain? Spain is
220. 11:21perhaps the best country in the world
221. 11:24to live in. Then the guy will say Dubai
222. 11:29, but Dubai is on the other side of the
223. 11:31Strait of Hormuz and it’s damn hot in
224. 11:32the summer. Man, there is no other
225. 11:34country as good as Spain to live in. So
226. 11:36, people from all over the world are
227. 11:38making the same move as me. And so the
228. 11:43Spaniard who works as a waiter here at
229. 11:45the W Hotel, he is going to compete
230. 11:47with me to live in Barceloneta. He
231. 11:51makes € 1,600 a month. I make, I
232. 11:53don't know, how much do I make a month,
233. 11:55€ 80,000, € 70,000. Damn. The
234. 12:02demonstrations this Saturday were
235. 12:04already planned before the vote on
236. 12:06Sanchez's measures on Friday, but the
237. 12:08government's defeat increased pressure
238. 12:10on the prime minister. The coalition
239. 12:13formed by the Socialist Party (PSOE),
240. 12:15which is in power, and its minority
241. 12:17ally Sumar no longer has a majority in
242. 12:20parliament and relied on the support of
243. 12:22smaller parties to pass proposals. Look
244. 12:26, let's draw a parallel here to this
245. 12:29election in Brazil. There were rumors
246. 12:37that the election in Brazil was already
247. 12:39decided, like, there was external
248. 12:41interference. If there is really
249. 12:47external interference, Lula will be
250. 12:50elected president. Let me explain. What
251. 12:57I just read here about Spain, the
252. 12:59president doesn't have a majority in
253. 13:02parliament, so you can't execute
254. 13:05absolutely anything, especially with
255. 13:08problems in the judiciary. There, here
256. 13:11in Spain, there are also three branches
257. 13:12of power just like in Brazil. What
258. 13:15parallel can we draw? Look, if the idea
259. 13:18is really to destabilize Brazil, they
260. 13:24won't let Flávio Bolsonaro be elected.
261. 13:26Why? Because if Flávio Bolsonaro is
262. 13:30elected, he will bring stability to
263. 13:32Brazil. Because as head of the
264. 13:36executive branch, he will have Congress
265. 13:39, he will have the House and after the,
266. 13:41I mean, Congress, the Senate, the House
267. 13:44...after the Senate meets and votes to
268. 13:47impeach a judge, he will have the
269. 13:49Supreme Court as well. So, a president
270. 13:53will have allies in all three branches.
271. 13:58When that happens, the country becomes,
272. 14:03the country is a rocket, but it is not
273. 14:08in the interest of external forces for
274. 14:10Brazil to become a rocket. So, if this
275. 14:14rumor of external interference is
276. 14:17actually true, Lula is president with a
277. 14:20right-wing Senate and House, and they
278. 14:23will just keep clashing for a long time
279. 14:26, unable to execute anything, and the
280. 14:29country will keep dragging itself
281. 14:32downhill. That is what is happening
282. 14:36here in this case. So, let's keep our
283. 14:39eyes wide open, okay? The election is
284. 14:42not won. Far from won. And again, if
285. 14:47this rumor of external interference is
286. 14:51real, what the enemy, what the external
287. 14:55interest wants is an unstable,
288. 14:58destabilized Brazil. Not a strong
289. 15:03Brazil on anabolic steroids. The
290. 15:09right-wing People's Party and the
291. 15:11far-right Vox had announced they would
292. 15:14vote against the texts. Junts, a
293. 15:17center-right Catalan independentist
294. 15:19party, also positioned itself against
295. 15:21both initiatives on the eve of the vote
296. 15:23. So, the initiative was like freezing
297. 15:27rent prices. This doesn't let anyone,
298. 15:32doesn't let anyone be evicted, that is,
299. 15:35against the free market, against
300. 15:38capitalism and in favor of the little
301. 15:43old lady. The first decree is rejected
302. 15:47by 178 votes to 172, wow, that was
303. 15:49close, huh? It provided for the
304. 15:52suspension of evictions of vulnerable
305. 15:54tenants until 2030. The extension for 2
306. 15:58years of rental contracts expiring
307. 16:00before 2028, tax increases on
308. 16:02apartments intended for tourism, and
309. 16:04restrictions on the purchase of
310. 16:05residential properties by investment
311. 16:07funds. Another aggravating factor, even
312. 16:12if I wanted to buy this apartment, I
313. 16:15couldn't. Why? Because there is a 100%
314. 16:19tax rate for those who are not Spanish
315. 16:21and buy here. Now an apartment in my
316. 16:25building must cost 1 million euros. I
317. 16:27would have to pay two because I am not
318. 16:30Spanish. The second, defeated by 184 to
319. 16:37166, provided for the automatic renewal
320. 16:39of rental contracts, one of the main
321. 16:42demands of tenant organizations. Ah,
322. 16:49automatic renewal of rental contracts.
323. 16:53The rejection of the measures has again
324. 16:55fueled the possibility of early general
325. 16:57elections originally scheduled for 2027
326. 16:59. According to the Spanish press,
327. 17:02Sánchez must evaluate in the coming
328. 17:04days whether to call for a new vote.
329. 17:10Pressure on the government occurs while
330. 17:12housing supply does not keep up with
331. 17:14demand. Look, housing supply. There’s
332. 17:17a lot of immigration and many wealthy
333. 17:19people wanting to own apartments here,
334. 17:21yet nothing is being built. Just like
335. 17:24in Portugal, nothing is being built.
336. 17:26Why? Because the people who hold the
337. 17:28power won’t let supply increase, as
338. 17:30they are property owners themselves. If
339. 17:32the housing supply increases, their
340. 17:34properties will drop in value.
341. 17:38According to the British network BBC,
342. 17:39the Bank of Spain estimates a deficit
343. 17:41of about 700,000 properties in the
344. 17:43country. Considering the gap between
345. 17:45demand and the number of new
346. 17:46constructions, residential property
347. 17:48prices have risen by 12%. Man, the
348. 17:50people I know—actually, I don't know
349. 17:53a single person who lives 100%—oh,
350. 17:57Eric lives 100%alone. But everyone else
351. 18:02I know here shares an apartment with
352. 18:04someone, whether it's a wife or
353. 18:06girlfriend—it’s very normal to have
354. 18:09a partner to split costs—or with
355. 18:11three or four friends; most share with
356. 18:13random people. Residential property
357. 18:19prices rose by 12%in a one-year period.
358. 18:22Damn. In the rental market, prices
359. 18:25increased by 8.5%in 2025. In Madrid,
360. 18:28the increase reached 10%. Madrid and
361. 18:32Barcelona are by far the most expensive
362. 18:33cities in the country to rent a
363. 18:35property, according to Idealista, with
364. 18:37average values of € 22 per square
365. 18:38meter. And 20—oh, wow, Barcelona is
366. 18:43more expensive. 23.80 per square meter.
367. 18:48Let’s do the math here. 139 Reais per
368. 18:50square meter. This apartment here must
369. 18:52be about 100 square meters. In Brazil,
370. 18:55that would be 13,900. I pay more than
371. 19:00that, but that’s because of that
372. 19:01whole mess I mentioned at the beginning
373. 19:03of the video. The reaction to the
374. 19:05eviction of Asbaix managed to produce a
375. 19:07temporary solution for the case. The
376. 19:10company Urba, owner of the apartment,
377. 19:11negotiated the retiree's return to the
378. 19:13property for a lower rent. The
379. 19:15mobilization, however, continues. In
380. 19:18Madrid, protesters kept their camp at
381. 19:20Puerta del Sol and organized new
382. 19:22marches. In Valencia, there were
383. 19:25clashes between police and participants
384. 19:28of a demonstration near the Palau de
385. 19:30les Arts, where a real estate sector
386. 19:32meeting was held. According to the
387. 19:34Spanish press, protesters removed
388. 19:36barriers and threw objects at police,
389. 19:38who responded with rubber bullets. Damn
390. 19:42, there are some photos here with a lot
391. 19:44, a lot, a lot of people in the streets
392. 19:46. What you breathe in the streets is a
393. 19:50new energy, an energy we haven't seen
394. 19:52in a long time. "An energy that shows
395. 19:54that eight days of people power are
396. 19:56capable of doing much more than 8 years
397. 19:58of progressive government," she said in
398. 20:01a note obtained by AFP. Now begins real
399. 20:04politics, the politics that has always
400. 20:05belonged to the people and is returning
401. 20:07to the streets once and for all. The
402. 20:10entity states that the rejection of the
403. 20:12government's measures aggravates a
404. 20:14crisis that mainly affects the working
405. 20:16class. So the conclusion is left and
406. 20:20right against Pedro Sanchez, who is a
407. 20:22left-wing leader, a left-wing prime
408. 20:25minister. Well, uh, AFP, you know? Uh,
409. 20:32who wrote that was AFP. I want to know
410. 20:36your opinion on this housing crisis in
411. 20:39Spain, if there is any parallel in
412. 20:41Brazil with politics or the real estate
413. 20:43market. The comments are there to be
414. 20:47screenshotted, meaning my team and I
415. 20:49will screenshot the most intelligent
416. 20:51and interesting comments to build an
417. 20:54intellectual elite based on that. We're
418. 20:57in this together and it's just the
419. 20:58beginning. Big hug to everyone. M.