Word: barranco
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Early each morning, he mounts his modified tricycle cart, pedaling through the streets of the seaside district of Barranco in search of treasures. He forgoes a shrill horn for his booming voice, shouting for glass, paper or used items that he can resell. "You have to be considerate and not make a mess. If you cause trouble, the police will take your cart, and then you're stuck," he says. On a typical day, which usually includes six hours' collecting goods and two hours' sorting and selling items to middlemen at a municipal lot, he clears around $3.50. A good...
Gonzalez, pushing his cart through Barranco, says he is encouraged by what the recyclers' movement has to offer. "Organizing is a good idea. I have never liked joining groups, but I think this association will help...
...Three involved only four hours of walking. First, a zigzag up over the Barranco Wall to around 13,000 feet, and then down again to a well-protected valley a few hundred feet lower. We were climbing around the mountain now, from west to east. Some members of our party had felt the affects of altitude on the first night. A few more the next day. But usually after a night's rest the headaches and nausea were gone...