The old place was a shanty town...the folks look a little shell-shocked, in a good way, to be in the suburbs overnight.

"The old Morococha was a collection of makeshift shanties with corrugated tin roofs held down by rocks. Virtually no public services existed. Miners and their families lived in crowded, unsanitary abodes. Sewage ran in gutters. Children played in what appeared to be toxic mine waste. Year-round freezing temperatures only added to hardship.

“Old Morococha was really messy,” said Felipe Chambi Mamani, a former miner from the border with Bolivia who arrived three decades ago. “We lived in one room, all six of us. We’d walk into the hills to get water, which was often polluted. There were public latrines. You’d be disgusted by them.”

in their actions toward US miners, who ended up working for the mines as slaves, having to take ALL their earnings to give back to the company through wildly overpriced groceries, clothing, shoes, household items, rent, etc., having them all living in cold, drafty shacks, without medical treatment, without educations for their children, many of whom also worked in the mines, and then getting murdered if they complained, if they didn't die of "black lung" first.

Most US Americans never learned, as US history school books strangely NEVER mentioned it, the US government used to call in the military to mow down strikers, protesters, etc. at the bidding of the company owners.

Hope these people will be able to escape that, although we have seen it proven, once the people with the money can buy the politicians, they usually get the highly regarded "freedom" to destroy almost anyone they want.

Sad.

Here's a photo from the ones with the article, showing the kind of houses the miners used to live in, in Morococha Antigua. People who've visited Google images have seen these tin-roofed houses elsewhere in the Americas where the poor couldn't buy their own politicians, like the oligarchs.

Click to view:

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/world/latin-america/q3mr3m/picture42274053/ALTERNATES/FREE_960/Latin-China-town_08

(You can see a hard wind whipping through the mountains would get those roofs in the air in no time at all! Unbelievable!)