[Do you remember a time when there wasn't street-selling in Santiago?]
This began during the dictatorship,
during the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship.
but it has been increasing in the background
throughout this so-called "democratic" Government.
The statistics don't reflect the poverty.
The statistics reflect a reality unknown to the people
because this country, from the outside,
above all in Latin America, is seen as booming economically
but the figures don't reflect the reality.
There are a lot of unemployed people
who don't figure in the country's statistics
and they need to look for a way to generate an income for their family.
They work in fairly precarious conditions
they don't have access to good food during the day
they're exposed to the weather conditions
they're subject to police repression, etc. etc.
Here you'll find sellers from Ecuador,
Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, from all over.
A lot of people start from this and climb upwards.
A lot of immigrants who arrived in Chile arrived and worked on the street
and the next thing you know they have a restaurant
one of the best restaurants in Chile for Peruvian food, from other types of cultures
from other peoples.
But dude, commerce is the best.
The street is good.
HAWKERS
My name is Alicia Marisol Leiva Begazo
I'm currently thirty-one years old
I was born in 1984 on the 13th of June in Peru, Trujillo, La Esperanza.
Hi young man, good morning.
How's life?
-All good. -Great.
-Gimme a juice. -Pure orange?
-Yes. -I'll squeeze it now.
I came here eleven years ago, to be exact I arrived on the 18th of January, 2006.
I came with the intention of working, but why?
As I was young, back there I working selling clothes, shoes, CDs, everything
and I got a taste for money.
And I got into debt. Ironically I got into debt selling products.
I sold all types of cosmetics
and got badly, badly in debt so that I had no money.
I was living in my mother's house, I was really young, just gone twenty,
and she asked me how do you get yourself in debt? I had nothing.
So then I got inspired one night and said you know what, I'm going to work.
-Here you go young man. -Orange? -Pure orange.
-Thanks a lot. Take care. -Thanks, same to you.
My alarm clock goes off at five in the morning.
Actually when I need to buy fruit, I get up earlier as I need to leave the house by three thirty.
I go to San Francisco street, leave down my fruit,
go out with my trolley and come here.
I stay here until twelve or twelve thirty, then put the trolley back where I store everything,
and head for the bus and take that home.
I should be home by around two in the afternoon. I have lunch with my kids,
I relax a bit, go out with them, make dinner, and then in the evening
we're all together again, and the day passes.
And that's it, the daily routine.
ONE OF THOSE DAYS
Hi Dennis, how are you?
Did you see this one Juanito? It's nicer, it's more beautiful just like you.
-That's why it's going for 350 pesos little lady. -Of course.
Why am I selling these for three and a half?
[Weigh me the six boxes.]
-[Listen, we're going to charge you!] -[Why are you going to charge?]
[For the photos!]
You're going to be in an international report.
Yeah, you're going to be in the report!
-[Here?] -Over there!
Weigh me two of those Juanito, that's all.
-Are they 'Joaquín' as well? -[Yes, there's ten. Four, four, two.]
How much is it?
17,400 pesos (€23).
-Is the last one 'Joaquín'? -[Yes.]
Look, the best there are...
do you have any specialities from 'Joaquín' left over there?
-[But smile!] -There you go.
Is this for over there in your country? Are you going to show it?
-[Pardon?] -In your country, are you going to show it? -[Yes, in Ireland.]
-Ireland, wow. How long does it take to get there? -[It's very far.]
Pay my fare, then.
Along with expenses.
Juanito, Juanito, we just have to take down the weight, yeah?
I have enough for today and possibly tomorrow.
I'll come back on Friday for more even though sales have been low.
I can't take a lot as the oranges go bad on me
and that doesn't suit us because then we have more losses than gains.
Coffee? Tea?
No. When you come back.
A grapefruit, it's rotten.
Are you coming with us, Dennis?
Then I came, and I came with no money Dennis,
because I was thinking this and that and that I'd be given some help but it wasn't like that.
I came here helpless.
I came, days passed, things happened, and I had no money.
And I got my first job, which was in a house like I told you.
I worked ten, eleven years of my life since arriving here in Santiago in houses,
and I started with a miserable salary. It was 130,000, 140,000 pesos (€170),
with two days off per month.
Every fortnight I got a Sunday off.
But why did I do this? Because I had no money.
I didn't have a house, I didn't have anyone to give me something to eat.
Until I got the job, one day I just ate grapes.
Because I had no money. I had 1,000 pesos (€1.30)
and with 1,000 pesos I went and bought myself a kilo of grapes
and spent the whole blessed day eating grapes. Grapes, grapes and grapes.
Then I found the job when a lady was sympathetic to me
and said work here as I was newly arrived and hadn't adapted yet
because of the money and all that.
Time went on and then Lucho came.
He arrived and right away I got pregnant with Angheliy.
Right away I was pregnant but I didn't know.
I realised when I was four, almost five months on.
I had nothing, my belly was tiny.
And I continued working as a live-in maid until I had her.
But it was…
I'm summarising the story because so many things happened, so many.
Angheliy… every time I talk about it I get emotional
because I would have liked to have her with my family.
I had her in a room half this size, on a mattress, with nothing,
completely helpless.
But I was really lucky, I received support from a lot of people.
And I continued working with Angheliy in my arms, as a little baby.
So it was a lot to live through.
I would've liked to have found myself in another situation, but it wasn't so.
This is the daily routine Dennis.
The daily routine.
We come here by car, where we store the cart.
When we need to buy fruit we load up the cart again and then we leave.
We come back here in the evening and put everything back and then head home.
It takes a lot out of you.
[Can you tell me what you two were talking about?]
Ah no, what happened is that yesterday there was an issue because
as I pay the woman,
yesterday I was left on the street until one thirty,
and I had a job interview where I had to be at one thirty.
So I was left stranded and I called her on the phone and got angry.
So now I'm asking for a key because if someone is charging me to come in with my things,
I have a right to a key.
And that was it, now she's given me a key
and she's raised the price by 2,000 pesos (€2.60) because I use her water.
But it's no problem,
as long as I have a place where I can store the cart and the fruit, I'm fine.
Is there bread? Has it arrived?
-Are you going to have it here? -Yeah, here, right now.
And when Andryu was born it was the same. I had a really low salary, a miserable salary that wasn't enough.
So with a baby and one in the belly I couldn't even work, I had two kids with me.
They were desperate times.
Even though some people say they don't care about money, it's a lie.
You need money to live, understand?
Those who say money isn't everything, that's false.
That's an ideology that I don't know who came up with, but for me it's not like that.
If you don't have money you don't live, you don't eat and you don't educate either.
It's just like that.
But anyway, time went on, things got better.
But here, I've always had a method I live by.
I'm not a conformist.
I look at where I used to be, in a tiny room, with just a mattress, in a rented house.
I said no.
When my daughter was hungry, all we had was soup for a week and she got really sick
because we had no money.
But I improved. Never again will someone go hungry here. I'll do what I have to do.
I won't have riches, but what I have I'll give to them.
That's what matters most. It's them.
Lucho or I can go a day without eating but my kids, no.
That won't happen again in this country.
I'll say it again, I don't have much.
But compared to what I had, I washed my clothes by hand in cold water for four years
because I didn't even have a washing machine, I had nothing, nothing.
I'm not a conformist, I don't like to stay where I am.
I like more, I like to have more, to have it so I can give it to them.
The best things I can, things that I didn't have when I was a child.
<i>[So Luis, what now for you?]</i>
Here a while and after I head to the job.
I go to work.
[So now until…?]
Until twelve or thereabouts.
JUICE GRAPEFRUIT ORANGE
Like I told you, I first started selling here.
I don't remember the exact date but it was in December.
I bought the cart, invested in the oranges and all that.
The first day I go and I sell 20,000 pesos (€26) worth.
When you work the whole day cleaning houses you get 20.000 pesos.
So I said to myself not bad, I'll stay here. I work three hours and then head home to see my kids.
The second day went badly, I sold twelve cups.
The third day I sold eight.
Then I didn't want to know anything else about it and wanted to pack it in.
But by chance, you know how these things go,
we got in touch with his Aunt, she told me that she was here
and brought me to see the place and I stayed down there.
So now I sell at Curicó and Lira.
But what happened, we have a backlog of debts.
So what I'm earning at the moment is going to pay off these debts.
So now it's March, in February I had my last orders on a loan from the bank
and I haven't paid that off yet.
But there's lots of things to pay like school and that,
and they take me twice as long because there's not one kid, there's two.
So with bills and everything, we spend more than 400,000 pesos (€530) a month.
When the oranges weren't so expensive I was staying afloat,
but now that the supply is low, what I earned yesterday was to invest today,
what I earned today isn't enough to buy for tomorrow.
I have to borrow to continue and buy tomorrow's fruit.
Here when the police catch you,
they take everything from you. You lose everything, you lose the cart, the fruit, everything.
There's some police who aren't that bad.
They'll talk to you and give you a fine
of two UTM's (monthly tax units), maybe three.
so it can be a fine of 40,000-45,000 pesos (€60) each time they catch you.
Luckily almost no one has come here.
-[Do you have to be on the look out a lot?] -Yes.
Come and help me cut, I've no more oranges. Sarah left.
Now!
[How long have you been here?]
Nine years now. I've been here nine years.
[And selling juice?]
No, just a year and a half in juice. I used to work in houses,
as a live-in maid.
The salary was 180,000 pesos (€240), in these times.
[On that salary you can't do anything.]
[And how much is the fine?]
Fifty dollars and up,
sixty dollars, eighty, one hundred, two hundred dollars. It depends where they get you.
-[And have you got a fine?] -Yes. I have three.
And I haven't paid them.
[How many hours a day do you work?]
Me? Fourteen or fifteen hours a day.
[Monday to Saturday?]
-[Monday to Sunday?] -Everyday, Saturday, Sunday…
[Are you tired of it?]
No, I'm used to it.
He takes his vitamins!
[How long have you been in Chile?]
I've been here three years.
I don't think so.
-Me neither. -Two passed earlier and they never stopped.
They stopped Luis here.
They asked for my details. That and nothing more, from there they left.
But here it's not like your country where they stop you and you can talk to them.
I tried to say to them 'listen what did I do to provoke this?' And he shut me up.
He said 'who's asking the questions here, me or you?'
But in a very authoritative way.
Not like in other places where you can reason.
He said 'I don't want you quizzing me, I don't want you saying anything to me.'
But here they're disrespectful, people are afraid of the police.
There's two avenues where I am and the police go up and down them.
Until now they haven't said anything to me
but I'm conscious that any day they're going to arrive and they're going to give me a fine.
They may even take everything from me.
And the day that happens, I know I'm going to lose a lot.
Very few come around here. They pass but it's because they're aren't as many of us.
On Alameda they there, here, over there, it's one after the next.
On San Isidro there's a mountain of them.
[What did they say to you?]
The next time they're going to take the cart and give us all a fine.
'Wait there at the corner', he says.
We're going to put it over here.
[How many times per week does this happen?]
Everyday.
Everyday we have to scamper.
Go! Go!
Over here!
-Ah I'm tired of this. -[The daily routine?]
Exactly, the daily routine.
I can't work like this.
Leave it like that and we'll get back quicker.
[Do you like this commotion?]
Well this is just day to day work. You get used to anything.
It gets me less excited than the others.
And they know your recording.
[And when they arrive again?]
We run once more.
You do miss your food,
shambar, patasca, ají de gallina, ceviche as it should be,
but sincerely, to go from here to there, no, I won't return to Peru.
No, I'd rather head off somewhere else. I'm not going back to Peru.
I'd go to Peru and die of hunger.
As I don't have studies, what am I going to work in?
For a miserable salary, with two kids? No.
No. I haven't even thought of that, no Dennis.
I'd like to stay here, go somewhere else but I'll never go back to Peru.
Not for the family I have, not even for the best damn food in the world, no.
If I need to go elsewhere I'll go and it'll be another quality of life.
And I'm sure of that.
When the day arrives and I'm able to go,
I said it to Angheliy and Andryu, I'll go with my eyes closed.
I'll turn my heart to stone and I'll go with my eyes closed.
Because I know it'll be a difficult year, a year of tears and it's going to affect them.
Andryu come here.
[Do you go to school Angheliy?]
Which school do you study in?
Colegio Jose Antonio.
It's a Franciscan school.
It's a school that used to be run by monks.
but now over time they've gone.
It's a Capuchin school. The guys with the robes and all that.
You could say it's a Christian school.
[Do you both like school?]
-Yes. -Yes. Of course.
[What do you like most in school?]
What do you like?
-Nothing! -What do you mean nothing?
Andryu is very good at maths.
Last year he participated in the Olympics.
-I lost very quickly. -Yes. By five.
And Angheliy is good at art. She really likes to paint.
She has a talent for drawing.
Hopefully it continues like that because who knows, maybe she can be the next Picasso.
Who knows?
Isn't that right Andryu?
I've said it to Lucho, when it's time to go, I'll change their life.
I'll change Lucho's life, I'll change Angheliy and Andryu's life.
One year worked Dennis, and they're going to Europe.
Who know's their future in another place. I can already picture them,
made into great people.
But I don't see them here. I see them elsewhere.
Hi. Finally, now I'm going!
It's pure orange juice.
Great, thanks.
"THIS IS THE STORY OF A YOUNG PERSON WHO DREAMED OF A MORE JUST COUNTRY"
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