Garbage Dump from Hell. Guatemala City’s Zone 3 District | RT Documentary

FOLLOW US ON TELEGRAM: In Guatemala City’s zone 3 district, there’s a monstrous garbage dump, or Basurero, the Spanish word for a landfill. It’s probably the closest you can get to Hell on this Earth. Basurero is filthy and toxic and unstable, but people still swarm to it to try and earn a living by trawling through the trash, in search of some treasure to sell. The ‘mine’, the most dangerous part of the dump, is overlooked by a graveyard perched on the cliff above it. The tombs look ready to collapse into the abyss. Ominously, vultures hover over it. There are always tasty carcasses to pick. Among the garbage sorters are 1,000 children. It’s their workplace and their playground. In the rubbish, they find some gruesome toys. Some stay here all their lives, never earning enough cash to escape. Zone 3’s garbage dump is full of death traps. Landslides regularly sweep everything away, and many are never found. Guatemala’s cruelest criminal gang operates here. Its members a