Where salt is a way of life
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Nico is 40, and for 30 of them, he’s been a salero or salt gatherer. Nico’s father and grandfather were saleros too. But the profession of salero is likely to disappear with Nico. It is becoming less popular in Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni, the world’s largest salt flat.
Nico has a big family of five brothers and two sisters, and he’s one of the few who keep coming to the salt flats, gathering the raw mineral left behind by prehistoric lakes and selling it. But Nico is not just a salero; he’s also an artist. Nico makes sculptures with salt - flamingos, llamas and off-road vehicles.
An RT Documentary’s crew spent ten days with the Bolivian saleros to make a documentary about the people who gather salt 3,500 metres above sea level. It’s coming soon! Subscribe to our channel, and don’t miss our new videos!
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This is the Chambi family from Bolivia. Eric, his wife and children, work as saleros or salt gatherers. Eric rides his old pickup truck to get salt blocks. He’s been collecting them for three years to build a small hotel. After a few thousand salt blocks, Eric finally opened his business in December 2019.
Instead of a new start of not having to chop salt from the earth’s crust under the scorching sun, the Covid pandemic struck. Not a single tourist has stayed at Eric’s hotel since March 2020. Eric keeps coming to the salt flats to bring more salt blocks in his truck. Sometimes, his family keeps him company.
RT Documentary’s Pavel Baydikov and Artyom Vorobey are in Bolivia, shooting a new documentary about saleros. Stay tuned for the premiere and subscribe to our channel not to miss anything.
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These are two guises of Estanislao Laime from Bolivia. Don Laime is a farmer who owns dozens of llamas. He is also a shaman, known as a Yatiri. Locals come to Estanislao for advice on making money or getting healthy.
But as a Yatiri, Estanislao has more responsibilities, including bringing the rain. Water is of great value in this arid region, home to the world largest salt flat. Everyone at the Salar de Uyuni looks forward to the rainy season at the end of December and lasts till March. Yatiris ask local spirits to bring the rain. The ceremony that Estanislao performed worked - the rain started in the Salar de Uyuni the day after the RT Documentary crew filmed the Yatiri.
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Where salt is a way of life
#photo#Bolivia
Nico is 40, and for 30 of them, he’s been a salero or salt gatherer. Nico’s father and grandfather were saleros too. But the profession of salero is likely to disappear with Nico. It is becoming less popular in Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni, the world’s largest salt flat.
Nico has a big family of five brothers and two sisters, and he’s one of the few who keep coming to the salt flats, gathering the raw mineral left behind by prehistoric lakes and selling it. But Nico is not just a salero; he’s also an artist. Nico makes sculptures with salt - flamingos, llamas and off-road vehicles.
An RT Documentary’s crew spent ten days with the Bolivian saleros to make a documentary about the people who gather salt 3,500 metres above sea level. It’s coming soon! Subscribe to our channel, and don’t miss our new videos!
Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary
#Bolivia. Lucha interna en el MAS acaba con la expulsión del Presidente Arce, el vice David Choquehuanca y 28 altos cargos más... y la re-entronización de Evo Morales
https://www.perfil.com/noticias/internacional/el-mas-expulsa-al-presidente-luis-arce-y-propone-a-evo-morales-como-candidato-unico.phtml
#Bolivia Huelga de trabajadores de la maternidad de Percy Boland, Santa Cruz. https://www.reduno.com.bo/noticias/anuncian-paro-de-24-horas-con-movilizaciones-en-la-maternidad-por-hacinamiento-y-falta-de-items-202411291440
Andes Mountains, #Bolivia
The Uyuni salt marsh (Spanish: Salar de Uyuni) is a dried—up salt lake. Thanks to the development of tourism in the Uyuni salt marsh, local residents began to build hotels from salt blocks in which they can stay overnight. It is noteworthy that beds made of salt blocks keep warm very well, and it is very hot on them at night. Everything is built from salt — chairs, tables, beds, walls, floors.
Bolivia, país suramericano que posee diferentes geografías y variados paisajes, muchas naciones y étnias; rico en historia, impresionante en cultura y tradiciones ancestrales.
¡Eso es magia!
Bolivia corazón de Suramérica. #bolivia
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🇮🇱Bolivia ha caído, Israel se posiciona en Latinoamérica
Tel Aviv y La Paz están restableciendo oficialmente relaciones diplomáticas completas, otra gran victoria para el bloque emergente de los Acuerdos de Isaac.
Bolivia primero cortó lazos con Israel en 2009 y nuevamente en 2014. Una breve restauración se produjo en 2019 bajo el Gobierno interino de derecha de Jeanine Áñez, alineando a Bolivia nuevamente con Israel y EEUU.
Pero en 2020, después de que el Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) volviera al poder, las relaciones colapsaron una vez más.
Tras los ataques del 7 de octubre, Bolivia cortó todos los lazos con Israel y más tarde se unió al caso de genocidio de la Corte Internacional de Justicia (CIJ) de Sudáfrica contra Israel en 2024.
El mes pasado, el centrista Rodrigo Paz Pereira se convirtió en el nuevo presidente de Bolivia. Bajo su liderazgo, La Paz ahora está cambiando de rumbo y renovando relaciones diplomáticas completas con Israel.
Y mientras el país se somete a Israel, el expresidente Luis Arce es puesto bajo arresto. Este es el mismo patrón que Latinoamérica ha visto repetidamente, un giro geopolítico hacia Washington y Tel Aviv seguido casi inmediatamente por enjuiciamientos contra el anterior liderazgo de izquierda.
Este es el resultado de conflictos sin sentido entre aliados ideológicos en Bolivia y ahora difícilmente la derecha soltará tan fácil el poder nuevamente.
En cuanto a Israel, esta es otra señal de que el marco de los Acuerdos de Isaac se está expandiendo.
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🇧🇴#Bolivia: Clashes broke out between miner unions, protest groups, and law enforcement in La Paz as demonstrators called for the resignation of President Rodrigo Paz amid the country’s worsening economic and fuel crisis.
Protesters confronted police while attempting to enter Plaza Murillo, Bolivia’s central government square, throwing what appeared to be dynamite sticks during the clashes. Meanwhile, roadblocks and demonstrations have continued across several parts of the country, including in El Alto, with regional reports describing a deteriorating security situation as authorities attempt to restore circulation.
(via @correodelsurcom on X & Reuters)
🇧🇴#Bolivia: Footage shows the Mobile Police Unit for Rural Areas (UMOPAR) of the Bolivian Police seizing a shipment of drugs that was set to be transported by plane at the Villa Tunari airstrip in the Chapare province.
A brief exchange of gunfire erupted between the police and the suspected drug traffickers, after which several bags of cocaine, weapons, and the aircraft itself were seized.
(via @submundooriginal)