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tv   Bolivia The Amazon  Al Jazeera  January 18, 2020 5:32pm-6:00pm +03

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live. or even you live. live in the humid undergrowth of the bolivian jungle a family collects the shells from giant brazilian. if alcohol and of prey i'm going to my mother get the if by a bull if the place is infested with insects and snakes genco the eldest of the siblings had a terrible experience i'm no longer uses his and most of the whole it's ethical cloak on to a lot imo but i needed
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a lock on that as. i knew i was in with and for the whole of me what a scar on the mark to go. everybody i have been to mental home be it the whole thing come on up with them and 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 shelves with the batman but her great fear is torrential that. this is much better that on. 5 hours the whole family works to near exhaustion collecting the show around the giant not. if. you have one on one end of one of them had the flag i don't quote i mean one of the i know the above that i am with you on your but i'm an author i prefer mindful of
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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 show requires skill. the blade of the machete is shot and can be dangerous. if 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 cold arsala. i moved there from here along all your medical if. by the end of the day they filled 2 bags of
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brazil nuts but then must be heavy at this and they're going to haul it and us up a little got a lot of the above but nature often provide solutions he. feels . if someone. if. a tropical rain threatens to raise an old tray for the fry. the family decides to leave the deep forests to see if they can.
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live. fly on the way home the young couple who know 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 rains will turn the forest into a quagmire for weeks. since the death of his parents 26 year old genco is the head of the family and has 15 mouths to feed and. he had to give up his medical studies and claudia her dream.
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genco younger brother roma who's 18 will go to university in his place but there's just been some bad needs there on the earth from the public there's a feeling. ok i think if they ask. you. if each of us on the north of them becomes a. few. looking for a solution genco tries to negotiate with the village co-operative for more than the usual prize. let's begin drama thank you every one. for. $50.00 or $0.25
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a kilo one 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 rots 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. or plant that in the month of may. despite his troubles edgar is happy because for once he won't make the trip alone. if. a taxi has just dropped off his son we haven't seen in months.
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to young alan his father's blue truck is amazing. for the moment between the point of view that i was going to. come in. with and then the single message. this week or maybe on again as he says there will be another nickel middle class. here when they get up to the market we made it because we are going to where. with the people here. we have. the. precious cargo of nuts begins a perilous journey through the bolivian amazon to the capital la paz.
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edgar was divorced a year ago he lives alone and this trip during the school holidays is the only opportunity to see his son. to make him. give that label but i thought it was something that was going to get me up on it but it could be something. in 3 days' time it's back to school alan 1370 kilometers away. if he's late is afraid he's 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.
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across a tributary of the alice and the rio benny. this year exceptional rains have caused massive flooding. and get this done. more inclusion i phone call. going to us and. the dog has disappeared underwater. there are no boats to cross the river. the long wait is frustrating. ferry struggling against the current finally arrive.
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edgar is one of the 1st 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 the same thing. with an old engine and a very strong current piloting the ferry is tricky. thank.
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god but i'm a gun. control bonus robot looking for a nickel thanks. the fairies no longer being pulled. and begins to drift. its 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 . i. get as you know the owner of the truck and once he's paid off the hire the fuel and
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the food this trip will hardly make enough to live a. few if any of us on him come into the middle. yeah i mean don't fool me. the rest is history and that's what i was going to say on the. basis of. after 3 days and 445 kilometers edg it completes the 1st 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 industries. today 100000 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.
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to be drawing they have to be ventilated but since there's no breeze the employees are continually moving the mountains unknowns around. the operation is repeated at the other end of the way house. boat them paddle up one of the. better off the table i. like to. pose in this polluted atmosphere bacteria often contaminate the known. miriam the director of the factory and forces measures to deal with this idea that some other london does a lot of money if it is also on the farm if. monday he'll look yes i need somebody to say i got it i want. and inside
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a 1000 workers mostly women are manually dissecting the notes. again i began to think what that means as i mean if you tell me in that particular . case given this in the piece it isn't as if it was self-defense how do you believe that if it was that was a healthy young man was killed i mean. in fact several members of the same family are taking turns on a single machine. this family averages less than $360.00 a month. who's only 18 has worked here for 2 years i was
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you know i was. the workers repeat the same mechanical action all day long i was . paid per kilo of shelled nots the workers hardly ever rest and quickly developed illnesses i guess it was because he was
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a little doubtful. brazil nuts will continue their journey to shops around the world where they'll be sold for around $30.00 a kilo. you. edgar has just learned that the road to lopez is flooded and impassable. he doesn't know how we'll get allen 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.
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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 the pads. looking at the damaged bridge he weighs up his options. this time and then i do but i stop locomotion. so you want to hold them off but at the knee i was. told that it's going to come in the bottom. but it's what they see is special treatment because those who've been waiting for a day.
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but you know i get it but i don't care but. fed up with waiting ramiro risked everything. to the best of the federal ski industry when but he. must have a way about how. he could easily be swept away by the current. how. he must now get across a mountain area eroded by deforestation you're no good what about when i'm out that
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he may go to go from we probably go yes go go to stalin look at the 1st dump whether he thought of the stuff that no. one knew not the fan of and also about. the model. which you didn't bother coming up. i'm going to home as i get but i'm going to weed out the because you know my heart going we don't know what i want what god. the rain doesn't stone and bolivia's slowly sinks into a major natural disaster i remember oh he's making slow progress towards the planets i. know it's
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a whole hill that's went down over the road. to a. civil hospital he thought he. was impulsive at about how to begin to get that high but it does not. stop to look at it from a high. school but not have a say but get there but i believe that. a landslide has swept away the road as 100 meters below. got a bit of here's another number up at an average one for 80 so the film. does not have the much of the stairs and. 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 they can miss a moment in phuket a moment 1st a quick one for you at c.s.u. one movement that i do via the move to live with them ben i was here close even
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before the. flood my life and see course you must refuse you. again see and we can go on with this thing is through the sea gives him time to say see a hand. so if you're not in the official quantity be a misstep. the trouble is have 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 if it all said that that is a lot of court case yes but not to go if they did not don't really like it it was
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a bus. went to hospital by for a little bit yes. well you know my mother doesn't have a fruitless but the little bit of fun you know. when are you or your friend you know about what is going through the community can get near you john. of the company jumping on and off with the noise to become very seriously must mean that because it is the no is very day or you see the only one i have but i want the way that i think that's. going to connect at the. most the point of this he is the one nobody that's the best in. ramiro will have to wait it out another 4 days before being able to continue.
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through 2. or 3800 meters above sea level pads the capital of the andes also suffers from flooding. to new young alan made it back to class but was one week late. he and his father both flew home with help from the government. not a ploy or money and can only pull will. shatter other work as they were yesterday dalia and yet not get a nationalist in with his truck stuck in the amazon edgar has no vehicle and has to earn a living doing odd jobs mobile money as openly called researcher what open or must story asking him to hold on to yesterday's can of all this make grafter wish for me for stand of a pony for me despite its natural beauty 'd year after year
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