IN STEREO

There are times, as I said before, when people come from other places. Those who manage [this area] are not Potosínos; they are from other regions. To have a Cochabambino, they do not know the things that happen in Potosí. Now a Paceno, worse; one from Sucre, worse. And we also could not go either, to manage Sucre, say. We don’t know what they have, what they don’t have, what they are or aren’t. We do not know. So these people they send us here – why? Because they are politicians, aren’t they? In the Mint that I was explaining before, what is the administrator? He is not Potosíno; he does not know what things [we have]. Instead, he is taking it, little by little. He is hiding it; he is going to take it away. They are stealing everything, and no one notices. Obviously, it’s political.

Now, what would I want to do? I’m going to tell you. Well, the first thing to do is that you would have to bring in a person who knows about our Potosí, who knows about the patrimony – so that they do not get lost, so that we do not sink further and are wrecked. Because once that happens, everyone will have to leave, and Potosí, what’s it going to be? Of course, it is important for us, because we do not want the riches to be taken away. We do not want to lose our mountain; we do not want the Mint to be taken. If Potosí loses the mountain and the Mint: bye! Then we are going to stay like a camp. Not even that, because they are not going to come – we will not even have resources. As they say, the cow has run out of milk. Right? We are a dairy cow. – Doña Carmen