[ home / rules / faq ] [ overboard / sfw / alt ] [ leftypol / edu / siberia / latam / hobby / tech / games / anime / music / draw / AKM ] [ meta ] [ wiki / tv / tiktok / twitter / patreon ] [ GET / ref / marx / booru ]

/latam/ - LATAM

Latino Americano
Name
Options
Subject
Comment
Flag
File
Embed
Password(For file deletion.)


 

This is the craziest most capitalist thing zi ever seen. All the guys making videos keep saying, dystopian, dystopian, dystopian.

La Rinconada: Human sacrifice and slave trade
>Known as the Lawless City of Peru. The highest mine in the world. A dangerous world where we find violence and crime of all kinds, from murdedrs and human sacrifice to slave trade. Life is worth nothing. Why would someone live in a place like this? The answer is simple: gold. Welcome to La Rinconada.

>>3481
I also watched this whole vid on it. I think the first video I posted was a little more interesting because he came prepared and was staying with a local who showed him around and this guy came with 0 preparation, but maybe that makes it interesting in different ways in its own right. At the end he does end up getting the local cops to give him an impromptu tour lol. You can just go up to a police station and be:
>Hey I'm a travel vlogger
>Can you give me a guided tour so nobody kills me?

>>3481
I stumbled on this the other day randomly. I started following that miner on instagram and he uploads interesting videos. you get a local perspective because he lives there permanently.
he also has some interesting stories like he saw goblins in the mine once.

I have two friends whom had worked there at some point of their lives
And I have the opportunit to work there (although they have disssincouraged it a lot)
And its shit
From some anecdotes from them:
>Once almost got killed for doing some cab for some miner (he had just being paid)
>Once got a granade put in the door of his hotel
>Witness s* explotaition (in other cities and in the rural countryside people will see adverts for "hosts / servers" that are just facades for the oldest profession. They are paid to be company and for something more (which ends up in girls being held captive)

Capitalism + reactionary traditions breeds monsters. And it is not just limited to the city high within the heavens, but other mines in the jungles and the coast

Are they not organized?
Yes they are, in some mines there have been enough support even among the population to expell venezuelans from their towns (in others the the decree passed but without effect)
https://larepublica.pe/sociedad/2024/12/24/este-pueblo-minero-de-ayacucho-expulso-a-los-extranjeros-en-24-horas-decision-se-tomo-por-creciente-ola-de-extorsiones-y-amenazas-evat-1634832
https://www.infobae.com/peru/2024/12/26/centro-poblado-de-arequipa-se-suma-a-relave-de-ayacucho-y-expulsa-a-extranjeros-tras-ultimatum-de-24-horas/
And they have enough union force to extend the law of formalization for small and artisanall miners in congress. Of course with support from the right and the left, and criticism from anyone that knows about law, climate, etc.
https://larepublica.pe/politica/congreso/2024/11/29/reinfo-las-claves-sobre-la-tercera-ampliacion-otorgada-desde-el-congreso-2083389

File: 1737322690253-0.jpg (132.75 KB, 826x1035, Profile_-_Mad_Hatter.jpg)

File: 1737322690253-1.jpg (47.73 KB, 800x600, mercury.jpg)

>>3510
>Witness s* explotaition
Yeah in the two videos they said there were a lot of miners with minors.
>And I have the opportunit to work there (although they have disssincouraged it a lot) And its shit
Yeah besides the obvious immediate danger, to get mercury poisoning is terrible. It makes ypu crazy. Heavy metal poisoning is incurable.

Side note, back when thermometers were mercury, kids used to break them and play woth mercury in their hands all the time.

>>3547
Such are the risks.

File: 1737554262304.jpeg (99.32 KB, 440x554, image.jpeg)

>>3510

depressing how capitalism and reactionary superstitions merge.
there are mountain gods who if you make an offering it is believed to bring good luck and lots of gold. the more scarce the better the reward. a virgin girl child's pants is the highest.
it was also said that if the mountain god grants you a lot of gold you have to spend it all on booze whores or drugs.

>>3667
Yeah, didn't want to write it down.
You can see why they bring young people, not to me8ntion the folktale that miners and/or shamans sometimes do human sacrifices to appease the mountain gods. Normally they do livestock sacrifice.
Anyway, I found this recolection by some usanian.
And made me remeber folktales about the prospector who gets his fat chance after wondering in this case into the desert mountains for gold.
That is what all is about, getting your spot of luck and go back and integrate yourself into the petty, or in the case of the late Percy Torres, into the bourgeoisie. One of the most notorious congressman of Puno, the late Fujmorist M. Mamani, was known for being a millionaire whom his main avenues of income (registrated) was doing private security to the mines.
https://www.appstate.edu/~perrylb/Courses/Peru/3140/Readings/Finnegan_2015.pdf


Unique IPs: 8

[Return][Go to top] [Catalog] | [Home][Post a Reply]
Delete Post [ ]
[ home / rules / faq ] [ overboard / sfw / alt ] [ leftypol / edu / siberia / latam / hobby / tech / games / anime / music / draw / AKM ] [ meta ] [ wiki / tv / tiktok / twitter / patreon ] [ GET / ref / marx / booru ]