Balls Deep--Sewers of Bogota: Part 1 of 5

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Description: For more of this video, visit www.VBS.tv The first time I heard anything about people in the sewers in Colombia was back at the beginning of the 90s when ABC Primetime Live did a piece about all the children living down there. It became a fairly big humanitarian story in the media for a while, with other networks in America and Europe sending in crews to cover it and folks setting up charities abroad. And rightfully so—the situation at the time was a complete fucking nightmare. The sewers were filled with packs of kids living waist-deep in shit and taking in copious amounts of glue and crack in order to cope. This was at the height of Colombia's "Dirty War", and the whole reason the street kids had gone down into the sewers in the first place was to get away from the violence. But then the paramilitary death squads who had chased them off the street started to come into the pipes and shoot them or douse them in gasoline or rape them. Ten-year-old girls were giving birth and trying to raise babies in the middle of sewage (the early onset of puberty having been brought on by the constant molestation by adults and older kids as well as the general stress on their bodies). It was about as fucked as things get.
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camiloarango2000 ::: Favorites I don't think this is true. He says he can0t actually film them because they don't want to be identified.. no one in Colombia sees this show. And that TV set there, off course it was put for the filming, no electric current works there... btw, im colombian living in Bogota 07-08-03 00:48:01 __________________________________________________
lorenzousarmy ::: Favorites Can't blame it on bush like some people on here want to. 07-08-02 00:47:07 __________________________________________________
lorenzousarmy ::: Favorites The U.S. does pump in 13 billion dollars into that country every year. 07-08-02 00:45:36 __________________________________________________
smarzotais ::: Favorites ... no i live in a cruddy apartment... and i do not frequently visit the sewers > <! only crakc heads i see are asleep on the ground or trying to steal the car mirrors on the side of the cars. 07-07-14 14:37:29 __________________________________________________
baphomet21 ::: Favorites Why! Either you are blind, or live in a golden cage. 07-07-05 18:40:46 __________________________________________________
brick4sale ::: Favorites shitcycles 07-05-26 04:23:12 __________________________________________________
halidefox ::: Favorites Wow - that's straight out of a sci-fi/horror novel, right there. I hope one of those kids becomes a carrier for some kind of super-virus and kills us all off as a lesson. Nothing less than we deserve for letting this shit go on. 07-05-25 06:07:14 __________________________________________________
Machetazo1 ::: Favorites And Bush is worried about "terrorism" If the US and Canada and Europe can get their GREEDY sweatshopping asses out and actually CARE for people on a diplomatic level... THIS TYPE OF SHIT WOULDN'T BE HAPPENING. 07-05-24 21:05:31 __________________________________________________
cucuta95 ::: Favorites no entiende 07-05-23 16:24:52 __________________________________________________
DmanLT21 ::: Favorites "you see the stalagmites? stalagmites but in sheet" x2 hahahaha But otherwise it is pretty damn sad. 07-05-23 01:02:52 __________________________________________________