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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
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Typewriters are Still Thriving in Bolivia

AFP file photo showing a broken typewriter symbolically displayed outside Istanbul's courthouse on September 30, 2021 during a retrial of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) representative in Turkey on charges of making terror propaganda for Kurdish militants in Istanbul.

Rogelio Condori clicks on his typewriter with his eyes focused on the paper. He has been working for around 40 years, in La Paz, in typing different types of papers, from administrative documents to love letters.

According to a report by Agence France Press (AFP), the 61-year-old man sits every day in the same place since 1985, in a crowded street in the Bolivian capital, wearing an elegant suit and a hat, with his Brother Deluxe vintage typewriter made in 1974.

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