Tales of silver
March 9th 2009 How lucky we are
A visit to the co-operative silver mines at Potosi reminds you how your life can be determined just by where you are born. If our school group had been born in Potosi, there is a fair chance a few would be working in those mines, inhaling lung fulls of dust and dying young, because it is the best of few options.
We’d seen a film in Sucre called the Devil’s Miner.
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