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tv   Bolivia The Amazon  Al Jazeera  January 20, 2020 11:32am-12:00pm +03

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or even you new england. i live in the humid undergrowth of the bolivian jungle a family collects the shells from giant brazilian. if algol and of prey i'm going to my mother get the facts if they are buyable if the place is infested with insects and snakes genco the eldest of the siblings had a terrible experience and no longer uses his and most of the whole it's ethical colloq on the a lot imo but i've been in there a lot going on there and i knew i was in which ended up offended me what a skank on the mark to go. it may have been what it had been the mental the it
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the whole thing coming 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 shells with the batman but her great fear is to run she lives i think. this is much better 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 for the archive note above that i am with you on your but i'm an author from mindful of every photograph and handle. the shell the too heavy to be carried they have to be opened
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to extract the know that are exploited worldwide. chopping the shelves requires skill the blade of the machete is shot and can be dangerous. if caught and then forgot about on the left that if. i don't know i will be among the low water around them as the government wanted them i wanted one for the record cold arsala. i moved in for here along all your medical if. by the end of the day they filled 2 bags of brazil nuts but then much too heavy at this and they're going to haul it and us up
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a little got to. about 100 feet but nature often provides solutions few. feet. 100. 50. 1. if. the tropical rain threatens to raise an old trade to try. the family decides to leave the deep forests to see if they can. live.
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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 janko 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. 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.
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i think if they ask. 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 prize. that's bigger drama thanksgiving for. $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.
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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 a good he's 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 the. moment these women one of the men i was coming up. on the middle of the metal thing . this shingle made me out again as he says there will be another nickname. here in the gift of the motor me on the radio because we've kind of here. with the people here. with their. 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. jim to make him. feel that way but yeah it was such a long time but that wasn't going to let one of the people feel like. in 3 days' time it's back to school. 1370 kilometers away. if he's late 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. must cross a tributary of the amazon the rio beni. this year exceptional rains have
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caused massive flooding. and get this done. for inclusion my form for. going to. the dock has disappeared underwater. there are no boats to cross the river. the long wait is frustrating. a ferry struggling against the current finally arriving. edgar is one of the 1st to board but there's not enough room for every one.
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moment that people can walk on i don't know some of them but there's no. question. the bus is too long. so the sailors let the real wheels rest on the rusty fragile ramp. they usually try and get as many customers as possible on board ignoring the safe. with an old engine and a very strong current piloting the ferry is tricky. enough but i'm a gun. because i will
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go and look at 1st in the gulf and. 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 to 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. in
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a fairly the muslim community middle. yeah i mean don't know for me. the rest is region that's what's going on down they should. be after 3 days and 445 kilometers and get 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. to be dried they have to be ventilated. but since there's no breeze the employees
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are continually moving the mountains and moans around food. the operation is repeated of the other end of the way house. cold but a loved one of them go live but i've been playing but i've got a lot but like i like to. play out in this polluted atmosphere bacteria often contaminate the flow of. miriam the director of the factory and forces measures to deal with this as a mother london does a lot of mom feel it is good that it was only thought it was a loose monday yellow yes i knew somebody was about to get out of my life so i and inside a 1000 workers mostly women are manually dissecting the notes.
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again i began to get nothing but i mean says i maybe let me know if i get my money . ok so basically it's obvious it was ok but since i was a boy again it was the last september supposed to be ok was really good 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 oh such a low voltage was. you know if it
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was. if you mean that i think it was. that. there was. that it was. the workers repeat the same mechanical action all day long. and that it. was. paid per kilo of shelled nuts the workers hardly ever rest and quickly develop illnesses. if it got. really low without.
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the brazil nuts will continue their journey to shops around the world where they'll be sold for around $30.00 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. the unseasonable rains continue and the river beni has now flooded. the main road to the capital is submerged. the country is split into. this year the flooding has been. stenciled with entire cities being affected.
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the bridge on the main road has collapsed. the force of the waters makes matters worse. ramiro is transporting timber to the bolivian capital pads. looking at the damaged bridge he weighs up his options. yes i'm intelligent but i stop look i must not look so you want to hold the market at the knee i was. told that it's going to fall into the bottom. but it's what they see is special treatment that angers those who've been waiting for a day. oh my. god you know what i don't get it but i don't care but.
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fed up with weighty ramiro risked everything. i got a best selling ski industry went back to the. us have a bust up. he could easily be swept away by the current. house. he must now get across a mountain area eroded by deforestation you're no good what about on amadeo he may go get some more fairly go yes go forest. you see at the bare spot where they keep
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out the stuff that you know. about me or not that band of it all say about. to stay at a moderate off. yet which didn't bother coming out. of the room as i could possible without them because you know i was going without 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 a whole hill that's went down over the road. several
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hostile he thought he. was impulsive episodically going to get that high 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 180 so this. does not have the much of the stairs. to travel those are angry they say the road was poorly constructed. maintenance teams are overwhelmed and the trying to open an alternative route to believe they can miss a moment in quite good moments was the political view at c.s.u. one movement that i do view the most vivid for them because i was here for him to. but i thought my luck and see was you must refuse you. again see and we can
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go on with this thing is through the sea gives him time to say see a hand that's obama's so if you're not in the official what will you 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 job or what has been said or said that is a lot of court case yes the notes are good if it is not don't really like it it wasn't must. i went to oxford or my for a little bit of
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a 3rd test yes i guess it was you know my mother you don't have a good but the little bit of fun when you don't need it when are you going you know what is going through the community could get near you john. of the company jumping on and off with i don't know if you're going there if you're missing much of that because there's no no there's been a day or you see the only one i have that i wind up on the way that i mean that's. when the going is that the i'm full most of the one nobody that's the best in. ramiro will have to wait he counts another 4 days the full being able to continue. you. are 3800 meters above sea level
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law powers 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. can only pull world. shutters or other workers that are yesterday 30 and you're not in a house with a stint with his truck stuck in the embers and edgar has no vehicle and has to earn a living doing odd jobs most of the money her heirs openly quadrature what open or must story asking him to hold on to yesterday's can all this make up going to wish for me is restraint 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. ringback
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