Enterrada al fondo de uno de los muchos barrancos que separan entre sí los barrios de la capital de Guatemala, a poca distancia del Palacio de Gobierno y a unos 300 metros de profundidad hay una mina de oro, plata, chatarra, basura y muerte escondida en un río que casi nadie conoce.
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| Esta ventana es la entrada a la "Mina" (A window used as an entrance to "The Mine," one of Guatemala City's biggest trash dumps, is seen early in the morning) |
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| En este desfiladero se buscan la vida (A gorge at the edge of one of the biggest trash dumps where workers look for scrap metal) |
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| Un hombre se cubre de la lluvia sobre un montón de basura. Con esta peligrosa actividad consiguen 150 quezales (14 euros) al día, casi dos veces el salario mínimo diario (A man covers himself from the rain on a mound of garbage at the bottom of one of the biggest trash dumps in the city, known as "The Mine," in Guatemala City. Hundreds of informal workers descend daily into the mounds of the landfill and the rushing waters that come from a storm tunnel and a sewer at the bottom of a gorge to search for scrap metal to sell. This activity known locally as "mining" is extremely dangerous due to mud slides and collapses, but earns many of them about 150 quetzals ($20 dollars) a day, nearly twice the minimum daily wage) |
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| David Flores busca chatarra en medio del agua contaminada (David Flores digs for scrap metal in contaminated water at the bottom of one of the biggest trash dumps in the city, known as "The Mine," in Guatemala City) |
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| Usan imanes para conseguir metales (A man uses a magnet to find metal in the material collected from the contaminated water) |
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| Una mujer en medio de la basura (A woman stands amongst the debri as she searches for scrap metal. Hundreds of informal workers descend daily into the mounds of the landfill and the rushing waters that come from a storm tunnel and a sewer) |
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| Miguel con la mano llena de metal (Miguel carries a hand full of metal he collected in the contaminated water) |
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| Zapatos deportivos en el vertedero (Mud caked sneakers hang from a nail in a mud wall at the bottom of the trash dump) |
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| Buitres sobrevuelan "La Mina" (Vultures fly over men searching for scrap metal in the trash dump known as "The Mine") |
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| Irma (29 derecha) y Dora (30) cargan con el metal recolectado durante toda la noche (Irma (29, right) and Dora (30) carry sacks of metal they collected after working all night) |
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| Julio (el segundo de izquierdo) muestra lo encontrado (Julio (second from left) shows off what he found to other metal collectors) |
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| Un saco lleno de metal (A collector reaches for a bag of metal he he collected in the trash mounds) |
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| Un joven busca metal en un tubo de desagüe de aguas fecales (A young man who goes by the name Paleta searches for metal in contaminated water by a tunnel where the water from sewage converges with storm water runoff) |
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| Oro encontrado (A man holds up a gold ring he found while searching for scrap metal) |
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| Hombres buscando chatarra (Men search for scrap metal in contaminated water, a task that earns many of them about 150 quetzals ($20 dollars) a day, nearly twice the minimum daily wage) |
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| La pesa y el libro de contabilidad de un comprador (A scale and ledger of a metal buyer sits at the top of the trash dump) |
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| Tomás Pérez Hernández (67) se dispone a llevar un saco de metal (Tomas Perez Hernandez (67) prepares to carry a sack of metal he collected from the bottom of one of the biggest trash dumps in the city, known as "The Mine," in Guatemala City) |
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| Ronnie con un saco de metal (A man who gave only his first name as Ronnie carries a sack of metal he collected) |
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| Un niño ayuda a un comprador (A boy who only gave his first name as Wilmer helped a fellow collector, Gilberto, weigh a sack of metals that they collected) |
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| Hombres clasificando chatarra (Men sort scrap metal they found at the bottom of the trash dump) |
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| Jóvenes descansando en la lluvia (Young men rest from working in the rain searching for scrap metal in "The Mine") |
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| Baluquita (15) busca chatarra en el agua contaminada al lado de una montaña de basura (A youth who goes by the name Baluquita (15) searches for scrap metal in contaminated water next to a mountain of garbage) |
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| Ha encontrado un anillo de oro (A man holds up a gold ring he found while searching for scrap metal) |
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| Trabajadores buscando metal (Informal workers search for scrap metal in contaminated water at the bottom of one of the biggest trash dumps in the city, known as "The Mine," in Guatemala City) |
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| Wilmer carga con un saco de metal despues de un día entero de trabajo (A man who only gave his first name as Wilmer carries a sack of metal he collected after working the entire day at the bottom of one of the biggest trash dumps in the city, known as "The Mine," in Guatemala City) |
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