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was. you. know first in the humid undergrowth of the bolivian jungle

a family collects the shelves from john brazil in the first six. alcohol on the tray i've got to my mother get the. idea by a bull if the place is infested within things and snakes genco the eldest of the siblings had a terrible experience i'm no longer using feeds 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 for me what a. economic signal and it may have been what it had been the mental and the made the whole thing come on up with him and when we fly through the air and i meet up i'm 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 it down.

a bit so much. that on. five hours the whole family works to near exhaustion collecting the shells around the giant no. you have one on one end of one of them had the flag i don't what i mean obviously on a quarter you have got to know the bow but that i am what you are on your bloomin whatever form 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 shells requires skill. the blade of the machete is shot and can be dangerous. if. you.

if this fight about on the left that if. i don't i will be among the low water around them as the government wanted them i wanted one for the record cold arsala. i moved there from here feeling lonely all your medical 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 holler and as a little going to get a cup of coffee but nature often provide solutions he flew if one hundred. fifty odd he. flew in. the tropical rain threatens to

raise old tracy to try. the family decides to leave the deep forest to see if they can. fly 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 it's no longer possible to collect any mole 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 need them on their. feet. if feel give us some. of them to come to.

feel. looking for a solution genco tries to negotiate with the village co-operative for more than the usual price. that figure thank you never went. to. 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 role is 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 fuel from a colleague. in the month of may. despite his troubles agrees happy because for once he won't make the trip alone. in. 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 these women 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.

when they get to the mother of 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 la paz. edgar was divorced a year ago he lives alone on this trip during the school holidays is the only opportunity to see his son. jimmy him off. 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 for 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 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 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 ride. 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. with an old engine and a very strong current piloting the ferry is tricky thank . god but i'm a gun. thanks. because pro bono looking for a nickel thank the fairies no longer being cold. and begins to drift. thanks 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. 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. up to the front and come into the middle. doing a film. just because he didn't just was going home on the. basis of. it 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 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 notes around. the operation is repeated at the other end of the warehouse. i think. that a lot of. the lighting. in

this polluted atmosphere bacteria often contaminate the no. i miriam the director of the factory enforces measures to deal with this that he has some other london a lot of money is that it was only for him it would. be a lot of yes i. would get a lot. and inside a thousand workers mostly women are manually dissecting the notes. again i began to see what i mean since i make a living in that particular. kid was set up a census obligates it was such

a bore you got to see how many lives that say was 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. for two years. such. a was such an example was. a was. gutting. the work has repeat the same the kind of. old a long. time but it

was such. now. paid per kilo of shelled nuts the workers hardly ever rest and quickly develop illnesses. get it cut. it will without. because. of 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.

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.

this time and then i do but i stumble come on. she want to hold them off but the. police come out in the front then. 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 waiting 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. house. he must now get across a mountain area eroded by deforestation you know. what about on amadeo he may go to go from we probably go yes go go to stalin look at the best. way to keep out the stuff that you know. that you're not the man of it all say about. the modern. which he did coming. i would go to the old man's

deposit going to weed out the body because you know how it's going to weed out what i want what. the ring doesn't stone 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 if i thought he did make it that would happen but it does not. stop to look at any of that i have. misquoted and i have a say but get there but i believe that. a landslide has swept away the road is one hundred meters below. together that of there's another number up at

an average of three eighty so this. doesn't out of them which at least they're. 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 with a quick one you know at c.s.u. one movement they let you have you can move it with them ben i was seated close to him before. but i thought my. seat was you must refuse you. again see and we can go home with you this evening is through the sea gives him time to say see you my hand. if you're not in the official what will you be a misstep. the trouble is had no choice but to brave the danger.

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 they don't i don't really like it it was a bus. went to hospital by for a little. bit yes i guess it's. been my mother who 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 through because for me i think you're going to bet on couple of the companies jumping and they have a way with i don't know if you're going to share this with much of that because it is the most big day or. the only one i have but i want the by the way i mean that's

. when the knesset the i'm full most of the one nobody that's the best in. 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. can only pull will

get. shot or other workers that are yesterday in the end loaded a partial list in with his truck stuck in the amazon edgar has no vehicle and has to earn a living doing odd jobs more pull money and legal research or what open or much store you're seeing him hold on to yesterday's can of it's me 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. on counting the cost how corrupt is your country transparency international has the latest global rankings venezuela makes history by launching a crypto currency south africa plug a hole in its finances as cape town faces a water shortage counting the cost at this time. the nature

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