I´m very much a trainer person, but I wish I´d brought a pair of shoes with me, because shoe shiners can be found on every corner, and I bet they are real characters. Some wear rather sinister masks. At first I thought this was to preserve their lungs but I was told it was because they were ashamed of having what is considered an undignified job.
Those with the full shoeshine stall seem to have a higher standing.THINGS I DIDN´T KNOW BEFORE TODAY
1. Eight million Bolivian miners, mostly indigenous people, are thought to have died in the tin and silver mines of Potosi in the 17th and 18th Century
2. Some spent six months underground
3. Today 5,000 are working there, with a life expectancy of 40
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