this tradition probably goes all the way back. as old school, and as awesome as it gets. a timeless classic, something that has been good forever. xavier: baby s in the house! anthony: pretty. xavier: beautiful, huh? anthony: a great idea that will never be anything less than great. put a pig on a stick and turn him slowly, slowly, over a low fire. xavier: you want some of the skin? anthony: oh hell yeah. xavier: cheers on that. anthony: twenty-five minutes up into the hills from san juan, an institution that celebrates pork. the whole damn pig, in ways that can only be described as spiritual.
and make a profession, 10 percent come back and that s a high number. there is no jobs for them. our population is getting older and it s formed by retired people. anthony: where are they going? elda: main island or united states. anthony: what s the plan when you guys grow up what do you want to do? girl in purple stripes: i want to be a chef. anthony: a chef? good for you, that s hard. your dream restaurant where would it be? girl in purple stripes: on the main island. erica: you see? [ laughter ] anthony: so in 20 years. elda: that s scary. anthony: who s going to live? elda: not our kids. anthony: who will own vieques, i mean who will be in charge? elda: not locals. not people that studied here. erica: the land is too expensive for the local people. anthony: so this will be vacation homes for wealthy people from other countries. who will save puerto rico? who will save vieques, it ain t going to be big daddy america. elda: it s ourselves. anthony:
who are retiring right now. in a pyramid scheme by the time it gets down to you who has been paying in for your entire life liza: there s no money left. i worry about my future. i don t know what i m going to live off. i have two jobs in order to pay my bills, have my car, have my house, and pay for my kids education. there s no way with one job as a teacher i can do that. anthony: so how do you continue? liza: i know i can get paid triple in the states, but i don t want to give up on my country. my kids see how their parents struggle. things can change if only one stands up and decides i m going to do this. but we have to empower those children. we have to make them believe they can change that there is a better life for them. and i m getting emotional because sometimes i feel that i failed. i cannot save all of them that s the truth, but i can save a lot. and that s my job.
we got to go back to farming. anthony: because you don t want to be buying from imports. xavier: we shouldn t! of course my restaurant i started 6 years ago with just 2 farmers. now we have more than 15,16 farmers. it s like a chain, you go to many farmers and you ask them this type of root vegetables and they don t have it because people stop buying the local root vegetable because the imported one is a whole lot cheaper. and that s all they have in their mind. but if you go to the farmer and you tell the farmer i m going to buy your product. the farmer is going to start having the product. anthony: pay more is a hard argument to make when people are struggling. xavier: but if we don t change our mind i don t know what is going to happen with the island. anthony: do people listen if you say look it s not particularly patriotic, you re not helping the country by eating mcdonalds or shopping at walmart? xavier: uh yes, like i tell you tony we have a lot of different types of
is, i ll have a shot of that. ana: actually we call it lagrima de monte, teardrop of the mountain. anthony: will i be crying afterwards? ana: maybe, it s very intense. anthony: how long have you had this farm? how long have you been doing this? ana: jorge started the farm around 10 years now but the farm was originally part of the area that the navy took. so it s part of the rescues that happened throughout the 80 s 90 s. anthony: farming is difficult work so why? ana: my mom would ask the same question. she was like what are you doing? are you quitting your job that in puerto rico it s hard to find a good job but i think that farming is the most practical thing that we can do in the midst of a crisis. xavier: that is something that is going to create work that is going to help the economy. anthony: it s a blunt question but can you make money farming? ana: in puerto rico it s still a challenge because obviously we still get food that is super subsidized from the