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        Bitter lives of Bolivia's child workers




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        By Andres Schipani






        BBC News, Bermejo





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        Fiser's mother wants him to return to school some day







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        To see children's silhouettes at sunrise, bent as they chop canes with machetes, is to see the scale of poverty in Bolivia, where often every member of the family, no matter how young, has to work.

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