Percy Portillas leafing through the pages of thoughtful Familienalbums.Seine Ismary woman sitting next to him, son and daughter both look over the shoulders to interpret and over again, laughing at the photos from last year.
since the halcyon days of leave a lot has changed for the small family. Above all, Percy has changed. While at the photos, a strong, even fuller Man is seen looking entgegegen a now a narrow-faced man with sunken eyes, pale skin and trembling hands. Percy is soon out of breath by the time he was champion in weight lifting and playing basketball, he can now only dream about. 
Percy has worked for six and a half years as a machinist for the Yanacocha gold mine. He liked his job, was proud to work for such a large and important undertaking.
Percy was one of the winners, earned good money, bought a small House in the city for himself, his wife and three children.
For a year, however, is Percy's world head for a year is not Percy the winners but the losers: it started with severe diarrhea and painful stomach colic, a rapid weight loss 30 kilograms within a few months. The doctors in Cajamarca could explain these symptoms persist, the study results were said to come from all good. Percy even they never got to face and relied on the opinion of the doctors treating him company. After half a year began Percy's thyroid crazy to play, obviously a consequence of the rapid weight loss. Treatment with radioactive beams is not struck, the torpedo attacks of Percy became more violent, to work for him was not to be thought over many months and it went from sick leave to sick leave.
In November 2007, Percy was finally released after months of sick leave by mining companies. A minor accident was hyped up as grounds for dismissal, but the union lawyer and Percy are sure that Percy's continuing health problems are the real reason for dismissal. The lawyer managed dozens of similar cases in his union office and knows whereof he speaks.
After his dismissal Percy will finally know what's going on with him. He goes to Piura, can be performed there in an independent hospital again some investigations, and learns quickly that he has greatly increased mercury levels in the blood - an occupational hazard, of which Percy but knew that he had never considered a serious threat. The heavy metal levels in the blood were examined by the clinicians of the company are also the result but Percy had never seen black and white. It was all okay, the doctors said, and Percy believed them. Today he is proved wrong "Here in Cajamarca, there is no single doctor who would not be manipulated by the company. Constantly our values are controlled, but we never know the true results. And if we get sick, the company looks for any excuse to put us on the road. We were cut off health insurance, they throw us out as a waste product. We have had it. "
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