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| [00:00.40] | I must say, I find this place pretty harrowing. |
| [00:03.46] | The Spaniards had a system of forced labour |
| [00:06.23] | which meant that every able-bodied male in the native population had to do a stint down these mines. |
| [00:12.82] | And you can see why one in eight of them didn't survive the ordeal. |
| [00:28.20] | Today, 500 years later, conditions for miners in the Cerro Rico haven't improved much. |
| [00:35.54] | But at least they get paid for the work they do. |
| [00:39.31] | In those days, it was a way of making money that verged on genocide. |
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