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you. i told you. thanks in the humid undergrowth of the bolivian jungle a family collects the shells from giant brazil. thanks. i'll go along the way i'm going to get mother get a fix ok i'll buy a ball into. the places infested within $0.06 in. jan code the eldest of the feelings had a terrible experience and no longer use the phrase and. its ethical call point of
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a lot imo but i bet any there a lot going on there and there. i was in which ended up 100 for me what i think on the mark siegel and it may have been what it had been the middle and the through the whole thing come on up with them and 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 not. that on. 5 hours the whole family works to near exhaustion collecting the shelves around the giant know. if. you have one and i don't want anything when i'm at the flag i don't quote what i mean one of the i know the boy but that i am what he knew but i'm an author from
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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. chopping the shelves requires skill the blade with a machete is shot and can be dangerous if he. if caught and then fell about on the roof that if. i don't i will be among the low water around them as the governor wanted them i wanted one for the record to vote arsala. i move there from here along all your medical if. by the end of the day they filled 2 bags of
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live. plane. 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 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 cool idea her
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dream. genco younger brother roma who's 18 will go to university in his place but there's just been some bad needs them on their faces. if each of us on the north of them becomes a. few. looking for a solution janko tries to negotiate with the village co-operative for more than the usual price. that's a good drama thank you every one. for.
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$50.00 or $0.25 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 egger 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 edgar is happy because for once he won't make the trip alone.
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a taxi has just dropped off the son we hadn't seen in months. to young alan his father's blue truck is amazing. for the moment these women one of the men i was coming. up with and then the single message. this week or maybe on again as he says they were going to let me come in. here in the gift of the motor me on the radio because we've kind of here. with the people here. with you. the. precious cargo of notes 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. feel that way but yeah it was such a long time but then once you get going to want it i wanted to feel like. in 3 days' time it's back to school alan 1370 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.
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across a tributary of the amazon the rio benny. this year exceptional rains have caused massive flooding. just. like listen i phone 5. minutes going to the us and. the dog has disappeared underwater. there are no boats to cross the river. the long wait is frustrating. the ferry struggling against the current finally arrived.
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edgar is one of the 1st to pull but there's not enough room for every one. moment that people from boca raton are 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 rondo. 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 .
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god but i'm a gun. control going to showboat looking for when they go on. the ferries no longer being pulled. and begins to drift. it's dangerously close to the banks of the river. 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 of
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the food this trip will hardly make enough to live on. in a very different game coming to the net of. doing a film on telly made during the draft history that's what was going on down decision. after 3 days and 445 kilometers eg 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 industry. 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 rot even before they're open.
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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 better. than anyone but they are. like to. thank in 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 if it goes out on the farm it would. be a lot of yes
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a. lot. and inside a 1000 workers mostly women are manually dissecting the not. a good idea because i mean this is i mean to tell me in that particular i mean one man said. this isn't the case it was it was there was such a boy again it was a labs that said was the c.e.o. of a was. 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 on the 18 has worked here for 2 years.
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a leg up. if it will work out for. the brazil nuts will continue their journey to shops around the world where they'll be sold for around $30.00 a kilo. lego has just learned that the road to le pears is flooded and impassable. he doesn't know how 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.
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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 then the. police come out in the front then. but it's what they see is special treatment because those who've been waiting for a day.
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but i do know get it but i don't care but. fed up with waiting ramiro risked everything. in the best of several ski industry went back to the. us how to buy a bus how. he could easily be swept away by the current. how. he must now get across a mountain area eroded by deforestation you're moving what about on amadeo he may
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go to go from we probably go yes go go to stalin look at the 1st gulf war to keep out the stuff that no. one knew not that band of it also about. the modern. yes which you didn't bother coming on. my show the moment i get positive going without a body because you know i was going to weed out what i want what. the rain doesn't stone and bolivia's slowly sinks into a major natural disaster. ramiro is making slow progress towards the pines. but now it's
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a whole hill that's went down over the road. to the hospital he thought he was impulsive it about how to get make it i have but it does not. stop to look at any of. these but get there but i believe that. a landslide has swept away the roads 100 metres below. together that of there's another number up at an average 1380 so this. does not have that much of the stairs. to travel those 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 the moment in quite good moments with the political view at c.s.u.
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one moment that i do view the most vivid for them because i was he got close to him to talk about. what i thought my life and i see was you must refuse you. again soon we're going to go on with this thing is for us to see give him time to say see about how on this obama doesn't you're not in the official quantity to 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. they're not really sure if that all said that is
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a lot of court case yes i'm not sure but if they don't i don't really like it it was a bust. when i bought a starter buy for a little bit of a 3rd to yes i guess it's really you know my mother you don't have to feel good but a little bit of fun then you know. when are you serious and you know what is going green ok for me if you can get here you just. come to compose jumping and never leave with the noise you're going to miss it doesn't mean that because it is there must be a day or you're. the only one i have that i want the by 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. ramiro will have to wait he counts another 4 days be full being able to continue.
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you. are 3800 meters above sea level pads the capital of the andes also suffers from flooding. you young alan 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. shatter the book as they were yesterday tell you and you're not in a house with this thing with his truck stuck in the embers and edgar has no vehicle and has to earn a living doing odd jobs mobile money arrow and nichol researcher what open or must story asking him to volunteer years because it's my program going to wish for me for stand of a pony for me despite its natural beauty year after year
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