El Callao - Bolivar - Venezuela. Rony Garcia poses for a picture inside a cavern in La Ramona mine. Garcia, a 23 years old miner from San Felix works in mining since he was 18, he left his hometown because the salary in Venezuela is not enough for a living. Now he has a three months newborn daughter and prefers to spend everyday working with his electric hammer inside a gold cavern.
The Troncal 10, the main road between Brasil and the southern state of Bolivar in Venezuela.
Tumeremo - Bolivar - Venezuela. Children plays in a street of Sifontes, a poor slum in Tumeremo.
Tumeremo - Bolivar - Venezuela. Moto-taxi riders are joking at a Moto-taxi stop in Bolivar Square of Tumeremo. Moto-taxis are one of the most common ways transportation used by miners to get into the mines located even hundreds of kilometers away from the town.
Tumeremo - Bolivar - Venezuela. An empty bakery in Tumeremo, the ongoing crisis in Venezuela is hiting the most remotes cities in Venezuela.
Tumeremo - Bolivar - Venezuela. A barber doing a haircut in an improvised barbershop in a sidewalk in Tumeremo. Only the 20% of the population in the mining zones has dedicated his life to formal economy.
Tumeremo - Bolivar - Venezuela. People is seen making lines in front of a bank to draw money. The high flow of cash in the mining zones has turn inhabitants into the "cash selling", a business where people make 10% of the amount that miners had deposited in their bank accounts.
Tumeremo - Bolivar - Venezuela. Jackson Herrera (23) a Moto-taxi rider poses for a photograph in the Bolivar Square of Tumeremo. Herrera moved with his wife and daughter from Valencia, one of the main cities of Venezuela located 1000 kms from Tumeremo.
Tumeremo - Bolivar - Venezuela. A calculator shows an amount of 1.249.300 Bolivars (6.246 or 1249 US$ in official an unofficial rate) for 40,3 grams of gold in a gold buyer shop. The gold mining is the main work opportunity for people in the south of Bolivar state.
Tumeremo - Bolivar - Venezuela. Migdalis Angel mother of Roger Romero, a 23 years old miner who were killed in March 4th, reacts after the recognition of the body of her son in her house in Sifontes neihgborhood.
El Callao - Bolivar - Venezuela. Eudomar Salazar (19), walks in La Ramona mine, located in El Callao City.
El Callao - Bolivar - Venezuela. A motorcycle is parked near a dry bushes in La Ramona mine, located in El Callao city. Motorcycles is a common transportation of miners because the ability to cross narrow and difficult routes.
El Callao - Bolivar - Venezuela. Eudomar Salazar (L) and Yerson Salazar (R), runs in La Ramona mine, located in El Callao City.
El Callao - Bolivar - Venezuela. Rony Garcia, a 23 years old miner from San Felix prepares to get into a cavern in La Ramona mine, located in El Callao city.
El Callao - Bolivar - Venezuela. A miner works inside a cavern in La Ramona mine, located in El Callao city.
El Callao - Bolivar - Venezuela. A miner walk inside a cavern made to extract gold 36 meters under the surface in La Ramona mine, located in El Callao city.
El Callao - Bolivar - Venezuela. Rony Garcia (23) works with an electric hammer inside a cavern in La Ramona mine, located in El Callao city.
El Callao - Bolivar - Venezuela. The landscape of old caverns are seen in La Ramona mine. When there's not more gold in the cavern, miners abandon it and left the landscape damaged, affecting flora and wildlife.
Tumeremo - Bolivar - Venezuela. Moment when a military convoy who transport 4 of the 20 bodies killed on March 4th, arrives at a sport field at the entrance of La Caratica slum, where relatives made a quick and improvised funeral due to the decomposition level of the bodies.
Tumeremo - Bolivar - Venezuela. The coffins of 5 miners found killed in a ranch near Tumeremo arrive at the municipal cemetery for their burial.
Tumeremo - Bolivar - Venezuela. In the municipal cemetery, inhabitants watch the burial of 9 of the 20 bodies killed on March 4th that were found 10 days after in a massive grave at Los Peregrinos ranch.
Tumeremo - Bolivar - Venezuela. Inhabitants brings support to relatives of Angel Ignacio Trejo Sosa during his burial in the municipal cemetery. Trejo, a 30 years old law student of the Great Mariscal de Ayacucho University worked as a moto-taxi rider and also had a grinder inside Atenas mine who used to pay his studies.
