Full Circle
Day 217: Boyaca Valley

Today, six thousand live on the mountain, but only one thousand two hundred of them are employed by the private company that has the mining concession from the government. They in turn employ a private army to help run it.
Weapons are carried openly. I see a man casually bouncing a pump action shotgun up and down on his foot. Rifles and double-barrelled shotguns are carried like shoulder bags. The women look as hard as the men. They wear tight jeans with revolvers tucked into the belt. It is a McCabe and Mrs Miller world of tired, hard red-eyed faces, of black mud tracks along which four-wheel drives slide and slither to avoid horses and donkeys carrying supplies.
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PALIN'S GUIDES
- Series: Full Circle
- Day: 217
- Country/sea: Colombia
- Place: Cosquez
- Book page no: 280
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