Featured Post: The Announcer
Original: EL VOCEADOR
Translation in Aymara: Coming Soon
By: Cristina Quisbert
“16 de Julio, Plaza Ballivian, Alto Lima….!”, “Tarapaca, cruce Taquiña, Senkata….!”, are some of the routes announced by the announcers, those who sometimes torment us with their yelling, but who have also become part of daily life.
But, what is an announcer?
It is a child or teenager that is in charge of announcing the routes of the different mini-bus, bus or collective taxi lines. In one of the mini-bus stops, I took the opportunity to ask an 18-year-old announcer a couple of questions.
How many hours a day do you work?
He says, “I begin work at 8 a.m., earlier sometimes and I work until 8 p.m.”
