A photo and its story

In 2016, I participated in a Latin American encounter of anti-imperialist youth, in Bolivia. The encounter was held in Villa Tunari, in the bolivian amazon. To get there I had to take a plane from Santiago to La Paz. That was the easiest part. Then, from La Paz to Villa Tunari I had to travel by bus and by car, via Cochabamba. On the trip to Villa Tunari, I met the socialist Bolivia that I had longed to know for years.


In Tunari I lived with a humid heat between incessant tropical rains. I spent a large parte of the encounter eating bananas, which were very popular due to humidity and the heat of the area. For that, they were rhe cheapest alternative to eat. 


This foto was taken on the last day of the encounter. We were invited to visit a local park. In the middle of jungle, we reached one of the Amazon River's tributaries. In the meanwhile, we could see many animals, such as tapirs, exotic birds and monkeys. There was a very funny monkey who followed us for a long time. After a lot of talking with it, we shook hand to inmortalize the moment.


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