The Devil's Miner: Documentary Analysis

After watching “The Devil’s Miner” and do some additional research I have picked two issues that come along with poverty in Latin America. The first issue that I believe is important is that many individuals go to bed hungry and children are not being fed properly. Although the number of malnurshinoshed individuals has decreased by a lot in the past couple of decades, there is still a huge number of people that are not getting the appropriate nutrients. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the number of undernourished people has decreased from 59 million in 1990 to 47 million in 2013. Latin American and the Caribbean are working on ending hunger. In the movie “The Devil’s Miner,” the family has to pick between using the money that is
Women are left alone with many children to care for, so the older children most often stop going to school in order to help financially support their family. In the documentary “The Devil’s Miner” the boy's father died when they were very young and so they had to start working at an early age. The older boy says that if he had a father he would not be working in the mines and would be able to focus more on his education.My mother has told me stories about her life growing up and some of the things that they went through. My grandmother had 13 children total and was left to care for all of them. The older kids would drop out of school and start working right away because theres was a lot of them and they needed many things to support all of them. My mom only got to middle school before she had to drop out to help take care of her younger siblings, when her siblings were a little older she started to work, she was about 13 years olds when she started to work. It is almost as if children from a single parent household feel as if they need to take up responsibilities in order to just keep the family