never imagine to live the whole day without seeing the sunlight, breathing toxic dust, making only one meal a day, from 40gradi to zero in a few minutes and slipping in burrows in strettisimi hundreds of meters below ground with a whole mountain with holes like a Swiss cheese on your head?
A Potosi, for generations, the work of the miner and 'the main use and is passed down from father to son like an art.
A miner and 'a true entrepreneur himself, pays an annual grant to a cooperative for the use of the mine and everything' and that is' her except for a Another 15% who leave each month to it.
The miners are divided into two categories: those who find the vein minerals, and consequently is more than luck to buy a house and car can improve its labor standards (trivially manages to get oxygen tubes in the area of \u200b\u200bits excavation using modern tools to extract the mineral) and who does fortune and continues to live in hardship and work with methods that date back to 1600. The two groups share the same destiny: to live no more than 50 \\ 55.
We fell in active mine of Cerro Rico, accompanied by former miners (ex just because 'suffering from serious accidents that have saved although the life, did not allow him 'to continue its work) to touch the art, the difficulties' and the devotion of those who go down to work underground.
Just like a miner every morning, we stopped to buy a stick of dynamite to 20bolivianos (around $ 3) and without supply of coca leaves (the miners chew it up to 300 per day, about 25 times more 'than they used to do the Bolivians, not to feel hunger, thirst, sleep, fatigue).
We have seen in their preparation: Before you go underground spend tens of minutes in total silence, thinking only of what 'they have to do once in mining, a kind of mental and spiritual retreat.
Gia 'a few meters from the entrance we were assaulted by dust that made breathing almost impossible, we walked on all fours down in tunnels where astento passed, all of which increased with temperature and the oxygen decreased. Some of us have had to go back and and those who 'has been made about whether a psychological work, not just ... Yet the heroes are the ones who live it every day.
The mine 'a sacred place, the miner worship 2 gods': the Pachamama (Mother Earth) and El Tio (the lord of the soil, companion of the Pachamama).
Both gods' must be honored. Since 'the mine' a place without any form of life, is Pachamama celebrated once a year with a feast that takes place underground. On this occasion, the mine is adorned with flower petals, flowers and colorful streamers with the sole aim of making it beautiful, lively and fertile so that it can return the gifts.
El Tio (of which you see a photo), built by the miners were found where large quantities' of minerals, is honored every day gifts (coca leaves, cigarettes and Alcohol).
E 'reassuring to see the world as there are people who do dangerous work and despite humble manage to maintain a relationship with the planet capable of feeding a virtuous cycle of energy positive (exchange love, devotion and gifts in exchange for his life and minerals that will). They know that the planet earth and 'alive, love and energy in balance with living things and try not to disrupt this mechanism.
E 'rather disconcerting to see how we in the West, while doing our work on leather chairs in the rooms clean and comfortable we continue to poison the planet with our negative energies we treat the world as a still life.
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