Comments on: The devil’s miner

By: parvez

parvez — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 22:38:15 +0000

i’m genuinely honored. i wish i had wings now! so that i could fly to you and accompany you to the movie. mr. marcel and gertie…thank you very much indeed.

By: Gertie

Gertie — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 22:09:46 +0000

Yeah, let’s do that ….. good idea! :yay_wp:

By: Webmaster

Webmaster — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 20:24:27 +0000

I have been in those mines in 2004, and I can tell you, everyday I encourage my daughter to get a good education in order to get a good job to prevent her from such circumstances as Basilio Vargas is faced with. I will certainly go Gertie to this movie, and lets take Parves with us, or not? :yay_wp:

By: Gertie

Gertie — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 22:40:02 +0000

The conditions in the mines are terrible. I’ve seen it with my own eyes in 2004, when we visited the mines of Cerro Rico in Potosi during our trip to South-America.
And the saddest thing is: those miners don’t have a choice … working in the mines often is the only way of ‘making a living for their family’ ….. which of course is very contradictory, because the miners die young …… :sad_tb:

By: parvez

parvez — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 00:18:06 +0000

there has been a lot of outcry about asbestos victims in australia. recently, the company ‘james hardie’, responsible for causing asbestosis to many of its employees and others, had to shell out an enormous amount of money as compensation. it’s great to see these people were united and were able to realise their rightful demand for compensation. but what about these miners? who will speak for them? what can they possibly do other than praying to this devil tio who would take unfair credit in helping(?) to find the miners a vein of silver but in return for their prayers, only give them sudden or untimely death with most horrible lung disease that makes even asbestosis sound like “a picnic in the central park”?!! this dreadful devil god has nothing to offer but pain and sufferings. to hell with tio! :furious_tb: