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In Bogota, trash of the rich becomes lifeline for the poor
BOGOTA: They appear at nightfall, dragging heavy carts from dustbin to dustbin in the affluent northern suburbs of the Colombian capital Bogota.Informal recyclers, they rifle through the trash of the rich looking for waste plastic, glass bottles and cardboard they can sell for a handful of pesos.It is back-breaking work for little reward, but a salvation for thousands in a country where one in eight city dwellers is unemployed, and the poverty rate approaches 40 percent.“This life is hard, but it is my only option to survive,“ Jesus Maria Perez, 52, told AFP.Men, women and even children: these waste pickers are the face of the misery that candidate after candidate for Sunday's first round of

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