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Cerro Rico, mining lifeline of Potosi community in Bolivia is beginning to collapse, while miners demand rights.
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In one Argentinian factory, workers refused to succumb to forces of failing economy, took matters in own hands.
Cerro Rico, mining lifeline of Potosi community in Bolivia is beginning to collapse, while miners demand rights.
In one Argentinian factory, workers refused to succumb to forces of failing economy, took matters in own hands.