Nuevo Milenio is a village located at 15 minutes from Arequipa city, in the south of Peruvian mountains.
Maria and Eladio are a couple of old people, like many in this village who work in the mines.
Maria Huarnica is 75 years old. Eladio Chura, his husband, is 80. He is dying because of the dust he inhaled in many years working as a miner extracting pumice stone from the subsoil.
The miner activity represents the only way Maria and Eladio have to earn...
more »Nuevo Milenio is a village located at 15 minutes from Arequipa city, in the south of Peruvian mountains.
Maria and Eladio are a couple of old people, like many in this village who work in the mines.
Maria Huarnica is 75 years old. Eladio Chura, his husband, is 80. He is dying because of the dust he inhaled in many years working as a miner extracting pumice stone from the subsoil.
The miner activity represents the only way Maria and Eladio have to earn some money day by day. Eladio is prostrated in their bed for a year and Maria has had to learn to work in the insecure, dirty caves they call mine.
Every day, she has to carry her husband's sickness and her own old, maltreated body in a lonely silence.
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Nuevo Milenio es un pequeño pueblo minero ubicado a 15 minutos de la ciudad de Arequipa, al sur de la cordillera de los Andes en Peru.
Maria y Eladio son una pareja de ancianos que como muchos, vive del trabajo en las minas.
Maria Huarnica tiene 75 años. Eladio Chura, su esposo, tiene 80. Todo el polvo que Eladio inhalo durante años de trabajo en las minas extrayendo piedra pómez, se ha alojado en sus pulmones y lo está matando.
La actividad minera representa la única manera que Maria y Eladio tienen para ganar algo de dinero día a día. Eladio esta postrado en su cama desde hace un año y Maria ha tenido que aprender a trabajar sola en esa insegura y sucia cueva que ellos llaman mina.
Cada día, ella tiene que cargar con la enfermedad de su esposo y con el peso de su propio cuerpo, viejo y maltratado, en solitario silencio.
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