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i. know you are. in the humid undergrowth the bolivian jungle a family collects the shells from giant brazilian.
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i'll go along the way i'm going to my mother get the. ball into. the place is infested with insects and snape. genco the eldest of the siblings had a terrible experience the no longer use of his and most of its ethical code will want the a lot imo but i bet any there a lot going on there and there i don't yeah i miss him a tenth of a hundred what a. economic signal and it may have been what it had been the mental and the. whole thing come on a little now when we fight for them in the air and i've got them in for the juncos wife claudia has never been bitten and still collects the shelves with the batman but her great fear is torrential that. this is much. better on. for hours the whole family works to near exhaustion
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collecting the shelves around the giant not. for. me when i'm going off what ends up being one of them at the flag i don't quote what i mean on a quarterly i know the budget i am we are on your bill i'm an author i prefer mindful of every photograph and handle. the shelves the too heavy to be carried they have to be opened to extract the know that are exploited worldwide for chopping the shelves requires skill. the blade of the machete is shot and can be dangerous if if if
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caught at the end of this fight about on the left that if. i don't i would be among the low water around them as the government wanted them i wanted one for the record cold arsala. i moved there for a long while i your medical if. by the end of the day they filled two bags of brazil nuts but then must be heavy at this and they're going to haul it and us up a little got to. about one of these but nature often provides solutions few. feel if one hundred. fifty. one. if. the tropical rain threatens to raise an old trade to try. the family decides to leave the deep forests the scene
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if they can. flew on the way home the young couple who had known each other since childhood already knows that the bag of notes will not provide enough money for the whole family and it's no longer possible to collect any mole because the torrential
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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 them on their. feet. and. if each of us some. of them becomes. a few flights. looking for
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a solution genco tries to negotiate with the village co-operative for more than the usual price. that's a good plan or thanksgiving one. in. fifty dollars or twenty five cents a kilo won't be enough to pay for roma's university registration. lower rates ensure the bolivian harvest has continued to live hand to mouth. there's a consignment of nuts that my rocks due to the moisture. to avoid losses edgar must deliver them as quickly as possible to a processing plant. but he's just found out his tank is empty and he has to buy
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fuel from a colleague. in the month of may. despite his troubles agrees happy because for once he won't make the trip alone. if. a taxi has just dropped off the son we haven't seen in months. to young alan his father's blue truck is amazing. from the moment vision the point of view none of us can go. on the middle of the middle trying. this week or maybe out again as he says there will be another nickname.
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when we get up to the murder me on the radio because you know where. with the people you. will be. the precious cargo of notes 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. jim finish him off with. your family but yeah i want to touch him but then once you get to me i want it but it didn't feel like. in three days' time it's back to school alan one
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thousand three hundred seventy kilometers away. if he's late is 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 allison the rio benny. this year exceptional rains have caused massive flooding. is done. more inclusionary fun for. going to the us and. the doctors disappeared under water. there are no boats to cross the river. the
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long wait is frustrating. a ferry struggling against the current finally arrives. at gare is one of the first to pull but there's not enough room for every one. moment that people from both commented on to some of them but it's not. the bus and . the bus is too long. so the sailors let the real wheels rest on the rusty. they usually try and get as many customers as possible on board ignoring safety.
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with an old engine and a very strong current piloting the ferry district thanks . coming up but i'm a gun. thanks. because we're going to showboat looking for a nickel thank the ferries no longer being pulled. and begins to drift. thanks dangerously close to the banks of the river.
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the steering cable is finally repaired and. at the last moment the pilot manages to safely guy the ferry across. and get you know the owner of the truck and once he's paid off the hire the fuel and the food this trip will hardly make him enough to live i'm. not privy to most of them coming to the middle. don't know for me. the best history that us was going on down there. after three days and four hundred forty five kilometers edg it completes the first stage of his journey a river around town. isolated and near the brazilian border the small town grew as
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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 nuts 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 notes around. the operation is repeated at the other end of the warehouse. i think. that a lot of. the lighting. in
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this polluted atmosphere bacteria often contaminate the no. i miriam the director of the factory enforces measures to deal with this that some other london is a lot of money is that it was only thought of it would. be a lot of yes i. would get out of what. i and inside a thousand workers mostly women are manually dissecting the notes. i began examining by means of making them in the bucket of money and said. ok we set up a census obligates it was there was such a thing well you got to see the to lives that say was young because i was.
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in fact several members of the same family you know taking turns on a single machine. this family averages less than three hundred sixty dollars a month. for two years. such. was such a was . a was. gutting. the work his repeat the same the kind of. old. was
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such. now. paid per kilo of shelled nuts the workers hardly ever rest and quickly develop illnesses. get it cut. it will without. because. 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 will get alan back in time for the new school year.
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the unseasonable rains continue and the river beni 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. the force of the waters makes matters worse. ramiro is transporting timber to the bolivian capital of pandas. looking at the damaged bridge he weighs up his options.
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this time and then i do but i'm broke on the last number so you want to hold them off but the. best thing. to let each them end of the bottom. but it's what they see is special treatment that angers those who've been waiting for a day. in my. life. but i do know i get it but i don't care for that. fed up with weighty ramiro risked everything. up to federal ski industry went back to the. us how about how. he could easily be swept away by the current.
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house. he must now get across a mountain area eroded by deforestation you're no good what about on amadeo he may go to go family fairly go yes go go to stalin look at the best. way to keep out the stuff that know. that you're not the man of it all say about. the modern. whitsitt it was about me and. i would go the old man.
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deposited one without the body because you know my heart going without what i want what about. the rain doesn't stop and bolivia's slowly sinks into a major natural disaster. ramiro is making slow progress towards the pines. but now it's a whole hill that's went down over the road. to a. civil hospital he thought he was impulsive if i thought he did make it i will have but it does not. stop to look at any of that i have. been and have a say but get there but i will be dead. a landslide has swept away the road is one hundred metres below. i got a bit of here's another number up at an average of three eighty so this. doesn't
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out of that much at least there's. the travelers are angry they say the road was poorly constructed. maintenance teams are overwhelmed and the trying to open an alternative route. they can miss the moment you walk in a moment first a quick one you know at c.s.u. one movement they lead you have you can move it with them ben i was seated close even before the. seat was you must refuse you. again see and we can go on with you this evening is to see give him time to see see about hand. if you met him official what would he be a misstep. the trouble is had 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 your driver board but what has been said all said that that is a lot of court case yes i'm not sure if that is the number of them again it was a bus. went to hospital by for a little. bit of attention yes i guess it's well you know my mother doesn't have a fruitless just a little bit of fun you know. when are you going to get to know about what is going through look at them and she could hear you john. of the company jumping on and off it with the noise you're going there if you're missing much of that because there's no noise big day or you see the only one up there with the by the way i mean that's . when the knesset the ample most of this he is the one nobody that's the best in.
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ramiro will have to wait it out another four days before being able to continue. at three thousand eight hundred meters above sea level. as the capital of the n.d.s. also suffers from flooding. young allen made it back to class but was one week late. he and his father both flew home with help from the government. normal support your money can only pull will get. shattered other workers that are yesterday in the end loaded a house with
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a stint with his truck stuck in the amazon edgar has no vehicle and has to earn a living doing odd jobs mobile money and legal research or what open or must seem him to volunteer years for this kind of ismay program for me for stand of a bunny for me despite its natural beauty year after year the rains in bolivia continue to have an impact on people's lives. struggling with the effects of climate change sierra leone's dry season is on forgiving but compounded by corruption and it's wet season months lives that are claiming most lives i don't remember even the wall when if i think would be one thousand one hundred people died in too many people in power investigates the effects of deforestation and illegal building and asks what the future holds if there's a north already failed to act the mountain will fall at this time on al-jazeera one
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