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i'll go along the. 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 the fees and most of its ethical call on the a lot imo but above any there a lot of ground there and i knew i was in which end of the one hundred for me what i found on the months ago and it may have been what it had been the mental and the made the whole thing come on a little now when we fight them in the air and i've 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. not on. for hours the whole family works to near exhaustion
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collecting the shell around the giant not. if. you have one on one end of one of them had the flag i don't what i mean or the i've got a note above that i am with you on your bloomin not that i prefer mindful of everybody laughing and. the shell the too heavy to be carried they have to be opened to extract the know that are exploited worldwide. chopping the shelves requires skill . the blade of the machete is shot and can be dangerous. thief. if. things got better then for
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about on the earth that. i've ever known i would remember low water from them as the government wanted them i wanted one for the equity. arsala fly it's like you're falling all more like your mother going to fly. by the end of the day they filled two bags of brazil nuts but then much too heavy at this hour and they're going to haul it and us up a little to get about a few but nature often provides solutions he fled he. keeps. up he. fled. the tropical rain threatens to raise old traces of the dry. the family decides to leave the deep forests to see if
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a quagmire the weeks. since the death of his parents twenty c. . zero 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 news there on their. thank you. if feel good for some. of them to come to a. few. looking
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for a solution genco tries to negotiate with the village co-operative for more than the usual prize. that figure drama thanks candy 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 roth due to the moisture. to avoid losses i get 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. as well but. despite his troubles edgar is happy because for once he won't make the trip alone. a taxi has just dropped off the son we hadn'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 to the motor me on the radio because you know where. the people. with the. precious cargo of notes begins a perilous journey through the bolivian amazon to the capital. edgar was divorced a year ago he lives alone and this trip during the school holidays is the only opportunity to see his son. jeffrey made him. feel that way 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 for 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. by inclusion i phone five. minutes going to us and. the dog has disappeared underwater. there are no boats to cross the river. the long
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wait is frustrating. a ferry struggling against the current finally arrives. edgar 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 is not. the bus ride. the bus is too long. so the sale is let the real wheels rest on the rusty. they usually try and get as many customers as possible ignoring safety.
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the steering cable is finally repaired and. at the last moment the pilot manages to safely guy the ferry across. it 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 enough to live i'm. not privy to most of them coming to the net of. doing a film. just history denied us what's 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 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 wrote 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 way house. i think. that it was 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 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. of the idea that was being done by means of making them in that particular item on the missing. kid was on the basis of how did it was there was such a law against it you know how many lives that say was young because that was.
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such. now. paid per kilo of shelled nuts the workers hardly ever rest and quickly develop illnesses. to get a leg up. it 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. and good has just learned that the road to lipans is flooded and impassable. he doesn't know how i will get alan back in time for the new school year.
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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. 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 stumble come on. she want to hold them off but the. police come in the but the. but it's what they see is special treatment that angers those who've been waiting for days. but you know i get it but i don't care for that. fed up with waiting ramiro risked everything. up to seventy and the she 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 probably go yes go go to stalin look at the first gulf war to keep out the stuff that no. one knew not that brand of it also about. the model. we exceeded alabamian. i would go the old man.
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deposited one without the body because you know how it's going without what i want what. the rain doesn't stop and bolivia's slowly sinks into a major natural disaster. ramiro is making slow progress towards the path. but now it's a whole hill that's went down over the road. to. civil hospital he thought he. was impulsive if i thought he did make it that would happen but i was not. to stop to look at any of the high. school but i have a say but get there but i believe that. a landslide has swept away the roads one hundred metres below. together that of there's another number up at an average of three eighty so the film. doesn't out of them which at least they're
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. the travelers are angry they say the road was poorly constructed. maintenance teams are overwhelmed and a trying to open an alternative route to leave the chemist a moment. but good moments was the quick once you know at c.s.u. one move i maintain my juvie almost finished with him then i was to get closer to him before the. five. and see was you must refuse you. again see and we can go on with this thing is to see give him time to say see a hand. if you're not in the official quantity 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 your driver board but what has been said all said that that is a lot of yes but not so good if. you're not temperamentally get a bus a bus. went to hospital by for a little. bit yes and you say. well you know my mother doesn't have a fruitless but the little bit of fun you know. when are you going to get to know about what is going green ok for me i think you're going to bet on couple of the companies jumping and have a way with i don't know if you're going to share this with much of that because it is there must be a day or you. feel me to have but i wound up on the way i did 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 in . a three thousand eight hundred meters above sea level pads 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. can only bill will get. shot or other workers that are yesterday in the end loaded
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a partial list. with his truck stuck in the embers and edgar has no vehicle and has to earn a living doing odd jobs. for the money. what open or must seem him to volunteer years for this kind of it's made 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 lawns. harvest and navigating dangerous rapids from the time we depart to the time we finished scared to the fish and dicing with death. i'm afraid of falling i'm afraid of dying breed if i don't go by coughing up my family to meet the men who go to the extreme just to make a living. but you have to be a strong swimmer otherwise and surf and risking it all vietnam at this time on
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