Daily Archives: 17 May 2011

The difficulty of a Bolivian coca farmer’s life — Al Jazeera’s video presentation about “Risking it all: The flying men of Yungas valley” 0

Bolivian mountain poverty necessitates physical risks and difficult family lives Riding the 400 meter long cables the farmers use to cross the river canyon to get to their coca fields are challenging enough.  The bus ride they have take to market on a narrow and precipitous road is scarier still. Al Jazeera did an outstanding [...]