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Los bomberos

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🗓️ 31 October 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

En Perú, un país donde las instituciones públicas son sospechosas -y a menudo culpables- de corrupción, los bomberos están entre los servidores públicos más valorados. Pero no cobran un sueldo y sólo reciben beneficios si pierden la vida o queda inválidos. ¿Por qué los peruanos prefieren que los rescate un héroe sin sueldo en vez de un profesional pagado?

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0:00.0

Hey, I want to recommend another NPR podcast to you, embedded hosted by Kelly McEvers.

0:06.4

Right now, they're digging into the business records of the president and some of the people

0:10.1

closest to him.

0:11.4

Here how one California golf course, one man had in skyscraper, no, not Trump Tower,

0:16.8

and one political documentary that only opened in 15 theaters can teach us important lessons

0:22.1

about the most politically powerful people in the world today.

0:25.7

They're embedded now in the NPR One app, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:55.7

These are Peruvian people who explain something that Kenny said.

0:58.1

The vast majority of the bombers that are in Lima are like him, volunteers.

1:01.7

They don't pay for their service, they do it in their free time, like something extra to their work.

1:09.1

I think they're crazy when I get this.

1:13.1

They're Lisa Cantu, a Mexican journalist who lived in Peru for six years.

1:17.5

And despite some of the Mexican parts, there are also volunteers who are in the city of Grandes,

1:22.9

like Mexico, Monterello, Guadalajara, there are always bombers who spread them,

1:28.7

and who work every day, giving them emergency.

1:31.7

But there's also a desert city, where there's never a place where each incendiary can be a catastrophe.

1:37.5

The bomber body doesn't have exact numbers, but in the capital region including Ica and Callao,

1:43.1

there were more than 5000 incendiary in 2016, and several of them were enormous and devastating.

1:49.1

In fact, when Lisa started to look at this issue for the last year,

1:52.7

she realized that the communes were there.

1:54.7

In a very short period in Lima, she burned a ship's ship, a scene in a very famous commercial center,

2:00.9

a factory of zapatos and a commercial gallery.

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