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Habilito: Debt for Life

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Release date

August 25, 2010

Creator / Director / Author

Chuck Sturtevant

Runtime

51 min

Overview

Documents the conflicts and tensions that arise between highland migrants and Mosetenes, members of an indigenous community in the Bolivian Amazon. It focuses particularly on a system of debt peonage known locally as ‘habilito’. This system is used throughout the Bolivian lowlands, and much of the rest of the Amazon basin, to secure labor in remote areas.

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