In Bolivia, much administrative paperwork is unavailable online and must instead be submitted in typed form. Therefore typing serves as the means to earn bread for the day
In Bolivia, much administrative paperwork is unavailable online and must instead be submitted in typed form
Dressed in a suit, a feather in his hat, Rogelio Condori sits bent over a small table on a sidewalk in La Paz, tapping on a typewriter with his index fingers.
As clients line up by his desk, which is perched at an angle, 61-year-old Condori fills out a tax form here, a divorce application there, on his Brother Deluxe 1350 vintage typewriter in the Bolivian capital.
For a fee of up to seven bolivianos (about $1) per page, "we handle everything related to national taxes," he told AFP with obvious pride from behind a full-face plastic mask.
Condori and his colleagues also dole out what advice they can.
"We can't complain," he said of his livelihood, which covers "the bread of the day" in a poor country with a minimum monthly wage of about $320.