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Story: Intertwined
The bread in question is baked by young women in Sacaba,
near Cochabamba. They attend university or work at other
jobs during the day, but between 4:00
and 6:00 a.m. they are bakers. At 6:00 they open the doors and sell bread to
their neighbors: five rolls for two bolivianos—about a nickel apiece. The
bakery’s competition sells four rolls for two bolivianos.
Feny, one of the young women, is twenty-six and studying for a degree in
economics. She says that when she was growing up her parents had to work in the
fields in the Chapare (the Bolivian tropics). She and her four siblings could
not live with them. They had so little money that it was all they could do to
scrape together two bolivianos, so they often had to split four rolls among the
five of them.
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