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tv   Bolivia The Amazon  Al Jazeera  October 10, 2017 12:32pm-1:00pm AST

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was. you. told. in the humid undergrowth of the bolivian jungle
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a family collects the shells from the giant brazilian. thanks. i'll go along the way i'm going to my mother get a. fair deal by a boy of. the place is infested with in. sick and snakes genco the eldest of the feelings had a terrible experience and no longer uses his and most of the it ethical colquhoun of the a lot imo but i've learned there a lot of ground there and there i knew i was in which end of the one hundred for me what on. economic to go and it may have been what it had been the mental home the mayor the whole mess in coming up with a mess when we fight for the general here and i got them in for the juncos wife claudia has never been bitten and still collects the shells with the batman but her great fear is torrential that. this is more than.
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that on. five hours the whole family works to near exhaustion collecting the show around the giant not. me that when i don't want anything when the member. got him what i mean obviously of course the ark i know about that i am what we are i knew but i'm an author i prefer mindful of everybody laughing at all. the shelves that too heavy to be carried they have to be opened to extract the not that are exploited worldwide chopping the shelves requires skill. the blade of the machete is shot and can be dangerous. if moved with you.
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if if. caught then this. about on the left that. i don't know i would be among the low water around them as the government wanted them i wanted one for the record on both arsala. i moved here a long while i was little. by the end of the day they filled two bags the brazil nuts but then much too heavy at this hour and they're going to holler and as a little crowd of. about one hundred but nature often provides solutions he fights. with. five hundred. one.
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and. the tropical rain threatens to raise an old trade the price of the family decides to leave the deep forests to see that they can. on the way home the young couple who had known each other since childhood already knows that the bag of nuts will not provide enough money for the whole family and
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it's no longer possible to collect any more because the torrential rains will turn the forest into a quagmire for weeks. since the death of his parents twenty six year old genco is the head of the family and has fifteen mouths to feed and. he had to give up his medical studies and claudia her dream. genco younger brother roma who's eighteen will go to university in his place but there's just been some bad needs vary on the earth yeah the polytheists of. the whole. ok i think it's a hassle that. the fees give us a lot more so
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a lot of them become to. flee. looking for a solution janko tries to negotiate with the village co-operative for more than the usual price for a year that figure. can enter one to. one hundred. fifty dollars or twenty five cents a kilo one be enough to pay for roman's university registration. lower rates ensure the bolivian harvest has continued to live hand to mouth. there's a consignment of nuts that my rots due to the moisture. to avoid losses i get must deliver them as quickly as possible to
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a processing plant. but he's just found out his tank is empty and he has to buy fuel from a collie. plant in the month of may. despite his troubles a girl is happy because for once he won't make the trip alone. with. a taxi has just dropped off his son we haven't seen in months. to young alan and his father's blue truck is amazing. from the moment this human point of view that i was. coming. up with. this. as he says there will be another nickel middle class.
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you get when you get up to the motive i mean i made it because we've had it with the area. with a few things here to help you. with. the precious cargo of nuts begins a perilous journey through the bolivian amazon to the capital la paz. edgar was divorced a year ago he lives alone and this trip during the school holidays is the only opportunity to see his son. just to make him want to fall behind. you that way but i thought it was fun but then once you get going i
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wonder what are you going to put. in three days' time it's back to school alan one thousand three hundred seventy kilometers away. if he's late as afraid his ex-wife will no longer allow him to have his son. but it's the rainy season and the route through the forest has already flooded slowing the traffic. across a tributary of the amazon the rio benny. this year exceptional rains have caused massive flooding. and get this done. more inclusionary form fall. you know we're going to madame's our son shot.
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the dog has disappeared underwater. there are no boats to cross the river. the long wait is frustrating. ferry struggling against the current finally arriving. at gare is one of the first to pull but there's not enough room for every one. moment that you put on what's coming out over time at the end of the day it's not. in the parts of. the bus is too long. so the sailors let the real wheels rest on the rusty fragile ramp.
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they usually try and get as many customers as possible on ignoring say. with an old engine and a very strong current piloting the ferry is tricky. enough for them a gun. because they don't know shit about looking for when they go for. the ferries no longer being pulled and begins to drift.
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it's dangerously close to the banks of the river. the steering cable is finally repaired and. at the last moment the pilot manages to safely guide the ferry across the the. egg it is not the owner of the truck and once he's paid off the hire the fuel of the food this trip will hardly make enough to live on. not going to the us once again i mean do you never get. there you aren't doing a full meal charlie made during the gulf war history that this was going on down there. after three days and four hundred forty five kilometers eg it completes the first stage of his journey a river around town. isolated and near the brazilian border the small
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town grew as a result of the rubber gold and timber industry. today one hundred thousand people live in these muddy streets and depend on the not processing plants for their livelihood. in this warehouse tons of the precious nuns arrive every day. because of the dam many will rot even before they're open. to be dried they have to be ventilated but since there's no breeze the employees are continually moving the mountain from knowns around. the operation is repeated at the other end of the warehouse. thing that i love. that i want but. when i get the lighting.
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in this polluted atmosphere bacteria often contaminate the north. miriam the director of the factory enforces measures to deal with this that. a lot of money is also in the form of. funding. yes a. lot of it. and inside a thousand workers mostly women are manually dissecting the notes. i began to see what i mean i make them and if i get money and said. ok this is on the basis that it was
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a success i was able to get it you know what i meant above that. was. in fact several members of the same family are taking turns on a single machine. this family averages less than three hundred sixty dollars a month. who's on the eighteenth has worked here for two years was that is what. was. it was there was it was. the workers repeat the same mechanical action whole day long. but it
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was . now. paid per kilo of shelled nuts the workers hardly ever rest and quickly develop illnesses. a lack of. will without. the brazil nuts will continue their journey to shops around the world where they'll be sold for around thirty dollars a kilo. has just learned that the road to lipans is flooded and impassable. he doesn't know how
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i will get allan back in time for the new school in. the unseasonable rains continue and the river benny has now flooded. the main road to the capital is submerged. the country is split into. this year the flooding has been extensive with entire cities being affected. the bridge on the main road has collapsed and. the force of the waters makes matters worse. ramiro is transporting timber to the bolivian capital lipans. looking at the damaged bridge he weighs up
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his options. yes i mean that i do but i myself what am i saying. no so you want to hold them accountable to the neon as they. come in to the bottom. but it's what they see is special treatment that angers those who've been waiting for a day. or a little oh my god you know you know what i don't get it but i don't care but. fed up with waiting ramiro risked everything. i. bet that's a risky and the scene with a few dollars. members have about how.
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he could easily be swept away by the coverage. that. he was now get across a mountain area eroded by deforestation you're no good. at it he may go. yes go go to. the fair stuff where the kids are the stuff that you know. that you're not the fan of it also. says. the moderate up. and. coming on.
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my shoulders almost. without them because you know how i'm going with all. what i want what. the rain doesn't stone and bolivia's slowly sinks into a major natural disaster. ramiro is making slow progress towards the past. but now it's a whole hill that's went down over the road. to a. civil hospital he thought he. was impressive at about how to begin to get that high but a bus that. was awful couldn't that i had. missed but get there but i believe that. a landslide has swept away the road is one hundred metres below. the benefit of there's another number up at an average
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one for eighty so this. doesn't out of that much at least there's. the travelers are angry they say the road was poorly constructed. maintenance teams are overwhelmed and a trying to open an alternative route to believe is in this moment in flux in a moment first of when of course you know at c.s.u. one never meant to let you have you know most of us with them but i was here for you in the form. of a horse. and see course you must refuse you. again see and we can go on with you this evening is through the c.d.'s in thunder see. if you're not in the official be a misstep. the trouble is have no choice but to brave the danger.
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stuck on the other side the truckers are fed up and now want to try them. you know if you are convinced that all said i was one of them not to go. yeah no problem again it was a must. when i was out of my for the first little bit more time i thought yes i guess it's really going to matter he doesn't have a clue of what to do and to find there's no yes or no your turn you know what he's doing great ok for me i think you can hear you. could accomplish jumpin have a way with the noise you become very seriously must mean that because there's no noise they don't see. the way that i think that's. going to
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connect with the ample most of the one nobody that i see best in.

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