En el kilómetro 34, un mercado de segunda mano se convierte en un punto de supervivencia para muchos. Desde prendas hasta electrodomésticos, los vendedores ofrecen una variedad de artículos a precios bajos. Los cartoneros viajan desde Haedo para vender sus hallazgos y los jubilados disfrutan de un descuento del 50%. Un vistazo a la economía informal y la lucha diaria por llevar el sustento a casa.
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00:00How much are the t-shirts?
00:05I sell them for $1,000 each.
00:07The old lady's stand.
00:09Gifts, ladies, gentlemen and children.
00:11Various items.
00:12Come to the old lady's stand.
00:13Attended by your own owner.
00:14The old lady.
00:15They cross a car in front of them, another one behind them,
00:17and they peel them like chickens.
00:19They always sell cheap because everyone wants to survive
00:22and someone always wants to take their mango home.
00:24There are people who look in the streets,
00:26people who find things they don't need in the streets
00:29We are at kilometer 34.
00:31Here the train is passing by.
00:33This station is where the cartoners go to Edo to look for goods,
00:40to look for laundry, fridges, cartons too.
00:45Everything they find to later sell at the Olimpo fair.
00:50It's 7 in the morning.
00:52Here the boys get up early because later they travel all day to Edo.
00:57And we are going to travel with them to the next station,
01:00which is the Turner station,
01:02which is where the Olimpo fair begins.
01:07Are you going to work? Are you going for a walk?
01:09To work.
01:10To work.
01:11To work.
01:12To work.
01:13To work.
01:14To work.
01:15To work.
01:16To work.
01:17To work.
01:18Are you going to work? Are you going for a walk?
01:19To work.
01:20What do you sell?
01:21Stuffed animals.
01:22Heart?
01:24Tell me, how much do you sell them for?
01:26I'm selling this for 12,000 pesos.
01:2912,000 pesos.
01:30They are baby anajeros. How much do you have?
01:32I'm selling this for 10,000.
01:34It's anajero with a bite, with everything.
01:36Ah, that's good. 10,000 is cheap.
01:38And it's a pillow.
01:39And it's new.
01:40Yes, yes, it's new.
01:41Everything you sell here is new?
01:42Yes, yes. I bought it for 11,000.
01:49We are in Ingeniero Budge.
01:51In Ingeniero Budge, yes.
01:53And how is the area here?
01:55On the days of the fair, on Saturdays, most of all, it's terrible.
01:58You know that here at the stop, you can't go to wait for the bus,
02:02to the stop, because they finish you off.
02:04It's terrible.
02:05It's difficult to live like this, isn't it?
02:07This street, on the weekends, when the fair runs out,
02:10here they lock them up with the police.
02:14Here they lock them up.
02:16They cross a car in front of them, another one behind them,
02:19and they peel them as support.
02:21They peel them as support for the fair.
02:25What do we sell? Shoes at what price?
02:2750,000 pesos with pants included.
02:30Let's see. Can we see it?
02:32Open it for me.
02:35We have some shoes that are new.
02:37The pants are also new?
02:39Ah, look how nice.
02:41Ah, look how nice.
02:42What size is it?
02:4352.
02:4452.
02:45It would look good on me.
02:46Yes, take it.
02:47Can you sell it?
02:49It's a little loose.
02:50It's difficult.
02:51But we have to fight it.
02:53And tell me, if you sell this, do you have a reposition?
02:56I'm going to eat.
02:58With this you're going to eat?
02:59I'm going to eat with my daughter.
03:02Browns, oranges, apples, you have bananas,
03:06you have bananas a little more expensive,
03:08which are surely cheaper, potatoes.
03:10Well, that's how you have the grocery store,
03:13the grocery store that leaves,
03:16yes, from the Olimpo fair.
03:22The Olimpo fair is installed in this little field of engineer Budge
03:26on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
03:28They start at 4 in the morning, the earliest,
03:31to stay with the best places.
03:33Everything is sold here, used clothes,
03:35appliances, tools,
03:37many of the things that the boys who cardboard
03:40are finding on the way.
03:42Because this is a fair of the search,
03:45where what some throw, they sell it.
03:51How much does the play cost, friend?
03:53At 100, 80 it goes.
03:55At 80 it goes.
03:56Do people bargain a lot?
03:58Yes, more now in January, which is very complicated.
04:01How much are those shoes?
04:03The shoes 15,000.
04:05And the black ones?
04:07Those 5,000.
04:08Do you get all this on the street?
04:10In the containers, capital.
04:12And well, yes, we earn the mango,
04:15we earn the bread of each day.
04:17There are things that I bring from capital.
04:20I have fans that I brought from capital.
04:22How much?
04:23And this is 20 lucas, I sell it cheap.
04:25Where did you find it?
04:26I go to capital every day.
04:28You go with your cart and pick up things.
04:30And what part of capital are you going to?
04:32Recoleta, Villa Crespo, Galvanera.
04:34What else do you bring?
04:35Shoes.
04:36How much are the shoes?
04:38This is 20 lucas too.
04:3920 lucas, cheap.
04:40They are new.
04:41What people throw away and don't use, is sold here?
04:43Yes, it is sold here.
04:44Everything is cheap, there is no other.
04:52The truth is that I didn't sell a damn thing.
04:54What are you selling?
04:55I sell football shirts, I sell t-shirts,
04:59a little bit of everything.
05:03How much are the t-shirts?
05:05I sell them for 1000 pesos each.
05:071000 pesos?
05:081000 pesos, a gift.
05:09A gift?
05:10A gift, really.
05:11And tell me, how do you get them?
05:13Do people give them to you?
05:15There are many ways.
05:16People go to the capital,
05:18they go to Cartonia,
05:20they give them to people.
05:22If you are good,
05:23you go with respect and humility.
05:25People help you.
05:27Listen to me, can we show the shirt?
05:30The one for 1000 pesos, the mouth one.
05:32I like the mouth one.
05:33The mouth one.
05:34Well, I hope you sell it.
05:36I hope so.
05:37Ah, you want to appear?
05:38Well, there it is.
05:39Behind the mask there was a human being.
05:41At least they show on TV.
05:43Tell me the prices.
05:44You have corn, 3 for 1000.
05:46Banana, 2 kilos 2000.
05:481500 the kilo of lettuce.
05:50It's cheap.
05:51It's really cheap.
05:52Do you buy it in the central, like many people here?
05:54Yes, my boss buys it in the central
05:56and we sell it here.
06:01You come to look around, to see what you can find.
06:04Yes, I come to look around.
06:06Are there convenient things?
06:08Yes, obviously.
06:10There are people who have needs
06:12and start selling their things
06:14that they need to eat.
06:16It's that.
06:17It's that.
06:18It's not that they go and buy and sell.
06:20No, there are people who look on the street
06:22and people who find things that they don't need on the street
06:24and come and sell them.
06:31How much is a dress?
06:33A t-shirt.
06:34A t-shirt. How much do you sell it for?
06:35I sell it for 1000 pesos.
06:37You have to survive, you have to help people too.
06:39Sure.
06:40So that someone can buy a t-shirt and something.
06:421000 pesos is very good.
06:441000 pesos for the clothes.
06:45You have to help people
06:47so that someone can buy at least a rag.
06:49Because as it is today, it is all expensive.
06:52Do you sell it?
06:53Yes.
06:54How much?
06:5530,000.
06:56It's brand new.
06:57It's brand new.
06:58They always sell cheap because everyone wants to survive
07:01and someone always wants to take their mango home.
07:03Here we are at one of the intersections of the fair.
07:06This street is America
07:08and it begins to open to the sides.
07:10This is called Soldado Mazat.
07:12People have a need
07:14and where they see a place, they put their stand.
07:20How much do you sell the cuckoos?
07:221000 pesos cheaper.
07:23What was your name?
07:25Laura.
07:26Laura.
07:27Reina Laura.
07:28Reina Laura.
07:29But Reina is your name or you are a queen?
07:31My name, Reina is my name.
07:32Ah, well, Reina.
07:33She is a queen too, they say.
07:35You are a queen too.
07:37Well, listen to me, Reina.
07:39Can you make us three cuckoos?
07:41Very well.
07:42Let's go with the combination.
07:49We sell here because we all need it.
07:52Now with this government that is cutting everything,
07:56I can't even retire.
07:58There is no medicine, we can't find anything.
08:00One has to earn a living, as you can see,
08:02in any way.
08:04We take out the clothes that our children do not have left
08:06to sell them, to be able to eat.
08:17This is gelatin, but from what country?
08:19From the interior, it is from Bolivia or Peru.
08:21Is it similar to ours?
08:23No.
08:24Is it thicker, lighter?
08:25It is thicker, yes.
08:27And this is bleach, right?
08:29This is bleach to chew with coca, bicarbonate,
08:31that the people who work in construction,
08:33the people from Bolivia, most of all,
08:35they use this to get rid of hunger,
08:37thirst, laziness.
08:39How much is the bleach?
08:40I'm selling this for 2,500.
08:42Follow me on TikTok, here I am,
08:44the morocha, the ones who wanted to see me,
08:46the one who is looking for a husband with money,
08:48not to be like that.
08:54The next day
09:02Did you buy a shirt upstairs?
09:04Yes, here I have it.
09:05How much did you pay for it?
09:063,000.
09:07Very cheap.
09:08Very cheap.
09:09Upstairs.
09:10Hey, look how pretty it is.
09:14Can you tell me the prices of the tools?
09:16The discs, 3,000.
09:18Then the hammers.
09:198,000.
09:20Yes.
09:2180,000, the big box of 108 pieces.
09:2320,000, the little ones.
09:25All the products seem new, right?
09:26All new.
09:36What did you buy?
09:37Fans?
09:38Yes.
09:39This cost me 20,000 pesos.
09:40This cost me 20,000 too.
09:42Do you see the prices well in general?
09:44Yes, here it is very, very cheap.
09:47That's why I always come.
09:48So there are prices.
09:49How much is it?
09:51This one is 120,000.
09:53It's a Fonseca.
09:54Hey, it's for my girlfriend, man.
09:56If you're looking at me, it's for Nancy.
09:58For Nancy?
09:59For Nancy, yes.
10:00Since she's here, let's go to Chivo Amoroso.
10:21So deep, it doesn't hurt, it doesn't hurt me.
10:26Come on, still, applause, applause.
10:28Very good.
10:30This is the Omero Manzi street,
10:31in the surroundings of the little field of the Feria Olimpo.
10:35And it is the sector where appliances are sold.
10:38You have 350,000 ... 350,000 of course.
10:42The big fridge, 250,000, the small fridges.
10:45You also have furniture.
10:47You have mattresses, yes?
10:49Yes, mattresses, yes, mattresses, bed, and then tables with their chair games.
10:55Look at this placard.
10:58Then here, more microwaves.
11:01Chairs for gamers, yes.
11:04On the other side, look at this complete game.
11:06This wood is very beautiful.
11:08Surely it is sold with the carpet.
11:10Table and chair game.
11:12Here we have a round one.
11:14If you want glass, everything you need to furnish your house.
11:19Your name? David.
11:21David, from where to where does your place arrive?
11:23From here, from the wheels to there.
11:25To the place where the umbrella is.
11:28To the yellow umbrella.
11:29And tell me, you are selling these wheels, what are they?
11:32Motorcycle, recycling, a workshop.
11:34I brought them here, you see, for the cars, more than anything, you see.
11:38Let's see, how much does this one cost?
11:40This one, 20 lucas.
11:41There are people who come without a peso, it is not enough for the retirees and I make a 50% discount.
11:46Ah, stop, stop, this is good news.
11:4850% discount if a retiree comes?
11:50Retirees and pensioners only.
11:52I charge the rest.
11:53Unless they are poor families or people who have it, I don't.
11:58You are selling tires, baby cars.
12:01Yes, everything, everything.
12:03And fans.
12:04Fan, it is already sold, 25 I sell it.
12:0625?
12:07Walking around.
12:09And how do you do to show them that you walk?
12:11I have here a house of a lady who charges you 200 pesos and I try it.
12:17Where did this fan come from? Do you know the origin?
12:21And this, I, look, I'm honest, I rescue things from the capital.
12:25Aha, you go out to cardboard, like many people here.
12:28I go out, I go out to surgery on a daily basis.
12:31There it is.
12:32Ah, good air.
12:33Tell me, where are you cardboarding?
12:36I go out on Sundays to cardboard in Lugano, or if not, when I go to do the procedure,
12:41no matter how well dressed I am, I rescue whatever it is.
12:47This one we have behind is the train that comes from Aedo to Temperley.
12:54It has just left many cardboard workers at Turner station.
12:58And if we walk along this precarious bridge, a block and a half from the station,
13:05we find the canchita, the canchita of the Olimpo fair.
13:17What time did you arrive?
13:18At five in the morning.
13:19On Saturdays, at four in the morning.
13:21Earlier, because to find a better place.
13:24It's not for the better place, it's not about the place.
13:27Here there are stabs, shots, everything for the positions.
13:30All this clothing is obtained from containers, from people who donate it.
13:33Yes, I walk in the street station and I walk in the capital, I walk every day.
13:37And everything I collect from the capital, I bring and sell here.
13:41You have to survive.
13:42We sell the clothes cheaply, we make 500, 3 per thousand.
13:453 per thousand?
13:46Yes.
13:47Look for me three that come out a thousand.
13:49And look, put it like that.
13:53These three things, a thousand pesos.
13:56Yes.
13:57How are you, Martin?
13:58How are you, boy?
13:59People surely know you for that trip we made in Aedo to Temperley.
14:02Yes, yes, yes.
14:03We come from Olimpo.
14:04If you don't have the train, you don't have anything else.
14:06Well, I work legally, let's say, I don't do anything.
14:09You used to cart and now you come to sell things here?
14:18To the fair, this is what we brought there that day, some things.
14:22What are you selling now?
14:23Toys, there are toys, clothes.
14:25Tell me the prices, do you remember any?
14:27Yes, yes, forget it.
14:28The reflector like that, more or less that.
14:30The reflector, yes.
14:31Put 5,000, 4,000, it depends.
14:34The bears, 2,000.
14:36The toys, 3 per thousand.
14:38There you have mountains.
14:39Let's see, mountain of clothes.
14:41Three for a thousand pesos.
14:42Three for a thousand pesos.
14:43Yes.
14:44Let's go up to the box to see if I still have a little skill, more or less.
14:49Flete Guido, you are the one who comes with the merchandise,
14:53people leave it here on the court and then you come to look for them.
14:56Yes, yes, I also sell here at the fair.
14:58Ah, you also sell?
14:59Yes, yes.
15:00And tell me, how much does it cost people to go and come back?
15:04And no, I do it cheap, I do it.
15:0610 lucas to go and 10 lucas back if they are from here in the area.
15:23Do you promote yourself as the place of the old woman?
15:25Yes.
15:26But you are not old.
15:27But what does it have to do with it, that's the name.
15:29Ah, okay, you like it because you attract attention.
15:32Yes.
15:33Lock, three thousand pesos.
15:34Cell phones?
15:35Cell phones, two thousand pesos.
15:38The old phones, what price are they?
15:41More for collectors.
15:42Three thousand pesos.
15:43Fernandez balls, big balls, small balls.
15:46What a ball Fernandez has.
15:49Is this loose?
15:50Yes, this is very loose.
15:51And what does it bring?
15:52With this I look for myself, but I buy new things,
15:55because thank God I can and I come to help my retirement.
15:59I sell more work tools, bottles.
16:03At this time I have invested in fans.
16:06Ah, this is the fan you want to sell?
16:08Let's see, we promote it to how much?
16:10And I sell it only for today at 45 lucas, just to be understood like you.
16:14Today nothing was sold, but another day it will be.
16:17Today nothing was sold?
16:18Nothing happens.
16:19What time did you arrive?
16:20At five in the morning.
16:25What time did you come?
16:27At six in the morning.
16:28And in the afternoon, how are you?
16:29Nothing, I keep working, whatever.
16:31I go to the street.
16:32Ah, looking, searching, you go with the truck?
16:35The famous search.
16:36What others throw, it serves you.
16:38Exactly.
16:39Do people throw things or not?
16:41Yes, they throw, many throw, many not.
16:43But now they throw less than before, right?
16:45Yes, today there is a hunger.