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Farmers Toil In Shadow Of Volcano


Undeterred by ash and fiery rock spewing from Ecuadors "throat of fire" volcano and predictions of greater activity, peasant farmers still work their vegetable plots on the mountain.

"Im not going to stay with my arms crossed," said Rosa Marino, a diminutive 76-year-old farmer preparing to climb the volcanos slopes to work her plot a few kilometres from the crater. "All my land is up there and I know God protects me."

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