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Bolivia | Potosi, (Living in the Shadow of Cerro Rico) (30 images)

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In the high altiplano region of Bolivia, in the impoverished and largely indigenous community of Calvario in Potosi, hundreds of subsistence-income miners enter the ominous black mouth of the Cerro Rico mines.
Potosi is a city deeply pensive of the pain of colonialism. From the discovery of silver there in 1545 until today, it has been a city of suffering for the indigenous population, while for Europeans, it was a mythical land of riches. While European powers claimed the riches of...
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