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tv   Bolivia The Amazon  Al Jazeera  February 23, 2018 7:32pm-8:01pm +03

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you know unionists. the folks in the humid undergrowth the bolivian jungle a family collects the shells from john brazil and the folks
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. alcohol and of. mother get box. full of the place is infested with insects and snakes. genco the eldest of the siblings had a terrible experience i'm no longer using feeds and most of the ethical colquhoun of the a lot imo but i bet any there a lot going on there and there. i was in with a handful of offended when the what on. economic signal and it may have been what it had been the mental and the. whole thing coming up with a man 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 more than. that on. five hours the whole family works to near exhaustion
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collecting the shelves around the giant. you have one on one end of one of them had the flag i don't what i mean you have got to know about that i am what you are on your bill i'm an author i prefer mindful of everybody laughing and. the shell the 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 he. if he needs it if
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caught and then forget about it was that if. i don't know i would be among the low water around them as the government wanted them i wanted one for the record. i move there from here along all your medical if. by the end of the day they filled two bags of brazil nuts but then much too heavy at this and they're going to haul it and as a little bit of. of that of but nature often provide solutions he. feels if someone. 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 on the north 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 prize. for good drama thanks candy one. for. 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 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 his 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 chink amaze me out again as he says there will be another nickname.
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in the gift of the motor me i made him because he had a way of. the fittest. 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. jim to make him. feel that way but yeah i want to touch it 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 thousand
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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 beni. this year exceptional rains have caused massive flooding. is done. by inclusion i phone five. minutes going to us and. the dog has 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. edgar is one of the first to pull but there's not enough room for everyone. most effective but i'm going to some of them but not. in the bus on. the bus is too long. so the sailors let the real wheels rest on the rusty rajon. 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 thank . god but i'm a gun. thanks. because pro bono showed us looking for a nickel thank the fairies no longer being cold. and begins to drink. thanks it's 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 guide the ferry across. the arab. and get you know 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 a. few if any of us are going to get. there you have been doing a film made. history and that's what's going on down here. 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 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 way house. them better. than i want but.
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in this polluted atmosphere bacteria often contaminate the no. i myriam the director of the factory and forces 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 a. lot. and inside a thousand workers mostly women are manually dissecting the notes. i began examining by means of making them in that bucket of money and said. ok give me this is on the basis that was it was there was such a thing or you get it you know how much of a loves to say was feeling was such. in
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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. for two years. such as was. the us was such an example was. a was. gutting. the workers repeat the same the kind of. old. it was
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such. now. paid per kilo of shelled nuts the workers hardly ever rest and quickly develop illnesses. if it comes to it will that for. 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 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 lipans. 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. so you want to hold them off but at the knee i was. told that each time i see in the bottom. but it's what they see is special treatment because those who've been waiting for a day. but you know i get it but i don't care but. fed up with waiting ramiro risked everything. up to several ski industry went but he. must have 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 your movie buff what about the one amadeo he may go to go from we probably go yes go go to stalin look at the first gulf war to keep out the stuff that no. one knew not the fan of it all say about. obama but not enough. which you didn't bother coming up. i would go the old man
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i get but not going to weed out the because you know how it's going to weed out what i want what got caught in. the rain doesn't stop and bolivia's slowly sinks into a major natural disaster. ramiro is making slow progress towards the planets. but now it's a whole hill that's went down over the road. to. civil hospital he thought he was impulsive episodically going to get that high but it does not. stop to look at any rate i have. scored 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. does not have that much of the stairs and.
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the travelers are angry they say the road was poorly constructed. maintenance teams are overwhelmed and the trying to open an alternative route to leave they can miss the moment in quite good moments was the quick once you know at c.s.u. one move i meant that i do view the movie business with him ben i was to get close to him before that. but i thought my. seat was you must refuse you. again see and we can go on with this thing is to see just in time to say see a hand. if you're not in the official one thirty pm established. 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 given that all said that that is a lot of court case yes i'm not sure that if it is known i don't really like it it was a bus. went to hospital but i've. never been heard to say. well you know my mother doesn't have a good bus to do it to find you know. when are you going to europe and you know about what is going through because from it you can then you're going to bet on couple of the companies jumping and inevitably with the noise you're going to hear this one must move out because it is there must be a day or you see the only one i have but i wind up on the way that i think that's. going to connect at the. most and whether this 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 pull world. shatter other workers that are yesterday tell you in the end loaded
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a partial list. 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 store you're seeing him have more than ten years but it's going to 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. harvesters navigating dangerous rapids from the time we depart to the time we finish we're scared to the fish and i'm dicing with death. i'm afraid of falling i'm afraid of dying breed if i don't go buy coffee with my family i meet the man 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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