The young girl works in a cemetery to send herself to school, and says "I'm more afraid of life than death"...that broke my heart:/

I feel like shit now...

Guys stop complaining about the guy eating coca leaves. Coca leaves relieve hunger and fatigue. It's also a way to enhance physical performance. In La Paz in Boliviva, they drink coca tea more than other parts of the country because they are near the Andes. Why? To relieve off altitude sickness. They do this in Peru a lot too.

"I'm more afraid of the life than of the death" ... Damn from such a young girl it's insane!

You know what i love about vice, their ability to report on things making sure the people of the country have the most dialogue Which is what reporting is supposed to be!

"I'm more afraid of life, than death." That is just sad.

In America kids are worried which one to choose the 16 or 32gb iPhone

Seeing stories like these then looking at lives some of the kids have here in 1st world countires. We have it so easy....

This is why I watch vice, they get the news out on certain things that mainstream media will never cover.

And here am I sitting with the AC on, eating chocolates...

I think that girl summed it all up with a single sentence: "I'm more afraid of life than death."

And we complain that we dont have wifi somewhere

They chew on coca leaves because it helps with the high altitude and the cold weather.

Its incredible to see how much work at a young age will make a kid become an adult almost. These kids are way more intelligent than any 12,13 yr old ive ever met in the states.

Very good video. This is the kind of stuff I subscribe for :)

VICE please make more documentaries (mini-docs) like this !

I did a tour into a Potosi Mine a few years ago and we all had to sing Happy Birthday to a miner who had been working down there for just under 2 years. It was his 13th birthday.

this is the reason i subscribed in the 1st-place,, vice is getting back to what made vice so great !! awesome video,, very sad but great,, keep'em coming vice !!

Is VICE actually back? Haven't watched yet but I like the title!

Knocked it out of the park again Vice. Keep em coming! Amazing work this year!!

Vice if you read the comments I hope you realize this is the kind of of stories we want to see and why we subscribed not the crap you have been putting out for the best part of 2013.

"I'm more afraid of life than death." Chilling how hardened and mature these young kids have to become. Little in the way of childhood fun.

Dude the last line of this documentary blew my mind and made me shake my head all at the same time.

Great video. much better than toddlers telling inappropriate jokes and toddlers getting high.

Kids in America mine Mines in Minecraft and kids in Bolivia mine real mines...

like usual, Thanks for the incredibly informative video!

thank you vie you ended the year well with this document

"I'm more afraid of life than death." really sums up this entire situation.

Great job on the documentary VICE. Although I felt very sad watching it.

"I'm more afraid or life than death" No kid deserves to think like this, it's just not normal. Kids should be kids! So sad 'bout all this, just a reminder of whats really important

yaay Vice actually made a good video.

Finally Vice released an educational video unlike some others. They posted a video about a girl getting high off of chocolate, wth?! Lol

Great video to end the year. Love your videos vice hope you continue the great content next year :-)

I feel like a piece of shit after I watched this video. I'm always complaining about my homework while people at my age out there are working really hard to find money for their education. What am I doing is not even half of what they have done.... I should get a life

"I'm more afraid of life than death.". Sad to see someone so young, live their life with that kind of mentallity towards life.

What many people go through in third world countries is truly heartbreaking but the sad truth is that life is a bitch and I'm really heartbroken that these kids couldn't have a childhood that kids should have. Instead they were thrown into the adult world without experiencing a childhood that every kid deserves

Good stuff! More of it please!

Vice thats the spirit, keep these vids comin!!

Captivating and informative. Great piece.

Truly heartbreaking to see these kids not have a childhood

Poor kids, nobody anywhere ever should have to grow up like that :(. This is so sad ...

Animo a todos los hermanos Bolivianos, Fuerza desde Mexico.

Very Courageous Kids!!!!!!! We all young people must learn their hardships and struggles to survive... 5/5 STARS FOR THIS DOCUMENTARY!!!

loved this one, thanks vice

My father is the oldest of 6 brothers and sisters, he worked with my grandfather in the coffee fields in Brazil, he started working at really young age, helped my grandparents rasing my aunts and uncles, those times you used to pass your clothes to your younger brothers, they went thru hard times in life but the key is to never give up, and education is the most important thing of all, now he's a professor, teaches, math, physics, science and account, never stopped studying, recently graduated from law school, I started working at the age of 15, i pray for this kids, working builds you to be a better person , I pray they get access to education.

I am Bolivian, and all this is government's fault as much as the people, my country is poor and our government is not the best, it is actually stupid, so families that are poor are somehow forced to send their kids to work, sadly they don't see education as something important because their survival comes first, which if you think about it, it makes sense. Families in the country side have a lot of children because, as some of u mention before, they are not well educated about safe sex and second because sometimes men, with all their macho bullshit, force their wives, or even rape them and well some others they just like having kids. Some kids are not forced to work, some of them just like it and like helping their families, I know that because well I have ask a few. Now they are not dirty because they love it and its not that as MAjaMantras said " If they werent so dirty, they can get a good job" it because with no education those are the only jobs the can do and the condition are not the cleanest, and sometimes they don't have fresh water in their houses, THEY DON'T LOVE WORKING ON DIRT or being dirty, seriously people just think a bit this is common sense. And well I love my country and it's true that kids should be in school and not working, but if u were in the same position as them u would not have much of a choice either.

I'm from Spain, so I obviously speak spanish, but I can't understand SHIT of what they are saying at all! I have to read the subtitles in english! D:

And here we are, infront of the computer...

sad seeing dude do his dead brothers job, he always walks around with his head down all depressed :(

I love Vice, you guys rock. Keep putting out awesome shit.

I always read the subtitles even though I speak Spanish.

I lived in Bolivia for 2 years and specifically in Potosí for six months and it was so hard to not get depressed living there. They should make another video that includes the kids that wipe car windows to pay for their glue huffing addiction known as "cleferos", the kids whose homeless parents make them dance on the sidewalk for passers-by, or the kids that go on buses and sing for a few cents.

"I'm more afraid of life than death"... shivers...

awesome Doc

Nice Doco Vice

I'm so glad Vice covered a problem I know all to well during my time being raised in Bolivia.

Great video

Thanks VICE for coming to my country and showing a tough reality children have to face. I hope you could come some other time.

You guys really don't understand how backwards your ideology is saying that Child Labor shouldn't exist, banning child labor only takes away what little these people have and will just lead to starvation and death

the 13 yrear old broke my heart...I'm so sad now...

Great documentary on child labor I didn't know it was like that in my country

this made me cry

Thank you VICE! one of the best videos in a long time! Shows us a huge problem to which there is no perfect answer and where black and white thinking doesn't help solving it.

poor kids, it makes you think When you see all those whinny kids in supermalls crying because daddy didn't buy them the latest toys, and then this...this sacrificed youth....who has nothing...and that girl who fears life more than death....shivers....

damn

I'm from bolivia its sad i give a lot of money when ever i see them

Love the video

What is really sad is when the girl said she was "more afraid of life than death' she was smiling in sadness.

It breaks my heart to see videos like these. I really hope things in that country change someday, so that those young kids can have a better (and a much safer) life and a better future... Que las cosas mejoren para esos jóvenes Bolivianos, para que así tengan una vida más segura, y un mejor futuro.

Much respect for these workers

I'm very thank full of being able to live in the united states. And hopefully if i keep my grades up and doing well i school i can do stuff like this and bring awarness to problems around the world. I love this channel because its time to show people the real world, especially my generation because sadly they are to focused on material needs and their image in society to focus on real prolems like these.

Seeing this makes me feel like I am too privileged and spoiled. I worked starting at 14 as a dishwasher but nothing to that extreme! Poor kids

Man... This is really depressing. I can't even believe this.

Such an eye opener

How many bosses who dont pay their workers end up dead or with broken limbs though?

horrible... but respect to the vice guys going in there i would noit step into that mine... i am not claustrophobic, but the idea of being trapped in a mine like that gives me the scares even thinking about it

Life can come so tough to a point where the words goes like "Many men, wish death"

What are the leaves they are cheewing?

Wow. I now feel disgusted at how ungrateful I have been for the education I have been so blessed to have received. This is truly something worthy of contemplation as we approach this new year.

Kids look like they're 40 years old in the face... They are young and they look tired. SMH... Damn shame. Who else was feeling nervous when they were going through the tunnel?

Awkward question, what rig is used to film it?

How can I help the kids on this video? Anyone know a good contact for it

For those watching now, the bill did pass in 2014, and now the working age minimum for Bolivia is 10, not 14.

and I'm sitting in my comfortable chair and eating potato chips whit cola, I am disgusted of myself, and of my luck.

I hope those kids get a good career. They deserve it.

Vice thanks to share whats going on in our world

how much money did cameraman take for going in there?

Such a sad story :/

Damn, Chicago got nothin on this .feeling some real pain watching this .

muchas felicidades a todos los entrevistados ,, que bueno muy lindo Hermanos saludos desde la distancia y que Dios los cuide,,

The kid on the left of the thumbnail kinda looks like Sean Malto a little bit

i'm so thankful for the opportunity to walk through the forest and pick wild edibles, fuck school, fuck work, fuck cars, fuck mining, fuck this. everybody's just trying to make an honest living here.

It would be nice if there was vice over, not just subs!

"I'm more afraid of life than death." That seems to be the prevailing ideology here in Latin America.

poor kids wish I can help in someway

THEY DON'T DESERVE THIS... 😭💔

Obviously the needs are different for all of us however this documentary definitely make me realise how us the people in the MEDCs take too many things for granted.

this reminds me of bosnia we have kids just like this its sad

Damn some of these kids look like grown men in their 20s already. Tough life...

Really makes me realize how good I have it here in the US...