deep down underground with the real workers for tuppence a day breathing in toxic fumes and exloding dynamite

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deep down underground with the real workers for tuppence a day breathing in toxic fumes and exloding dynamite

 South America » Bolivia By Juanes
June 22nd 2007
Jason Burnettmore words about the fascinating and nauseating trip down the Bolivean mine in Potosi.

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Photos

light the fuse - Its Dynamite Time
getting ready to explode things

bye bye bunny
Local miner loading teddy bear with TNT prior to exploding the bear

bye bye easter bunny
hasta luego bunny

if i had a hammer, i would hammer in the morning !
The Boliveans doing a proper days work for about £2.30, no minimum wage here !

Breathe in that dust
The Boliveans doing a proper days work for about £2.30, no minimum wage here !

Hard At Work
The Boliveans doing a proper days work for about £2.30, no minimum wage here !

The Miners of Potosi
The Boliveans doing a proper days work for about £2.30, no minimum wage here !

the miners of Potosi, Bolivia
The Boliveans doing a proper days work for about £2.30, no minimum wage here !

harworking Miners
The Boliveans doing a proper days work for about £2.30, no minimum wage here !

who is here ?
cant see for all the dust

Its getting hot in here
to quote the words of Nelly, its getting hot in here, working with all the chemicals and hot climate and hot gas, make sure nobody lights up a cigarette !

underground, oveground
to quote the words of Nelly, its getting hot in here, working with all the chemicals and hot climate and hot gas, make sure nobody lights up a cigarette !

underground, overground
to quote the words of Nelly, its getting hot in here, working with all the chemicals and hot climate and hot gas, make sure nobody lights up a cigarette !

waiting outside the mine in Potosi
waiting to go down under

The All Mighty Pacha Mama
here is to the God of the Mother earth

Friends of Pacha mama
these guys have been working too long down here

here's to Pacha Mama
god of the earth, lets make a donation and give you some cigarettes and drink to safeguard our lives in the mine !