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Darío encontró una forma de vida en la restauración de sanitarios. A pesar de los riesgos asociados con el uso de productos químicos tóxicos y cancerígenos, Darío trabaja largas horas todos los días para mantener su negocio en marcha. Su historia es un testimonio del espíritu emprendedor y la voluntad de superar las adversidades.

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00:00Darío, a life-long street vendor, thought he could make a living restoring sanitary products.
00:10He learned the technique by trying different formulas.
00:13A search as original as risky.
00:18This is acid. Be careful, please.
00:21It's very strong. I put acid in it.
00:24This is pure chlorine.
00:25Isn't that very toxic?
00:26Yes, it's unhealthy.
00:28It's unhealthy and it's carcinogenic.
00:31One day, he felt he could build his empire at the expense of an effort that not everyone is willing to make.
00:37I put it like this because the smell is impressive.
00:42You can't breathe.
00:45That's the process.
00:49This is his story.
00:52We are with Darío in the San Miguel neighborhood.
00:54We came to know his business.
00:56At the moment, Darío has a service of restoring sanitary products.
01:00And you won't be able to believe the work of art that he does with what comes to him,
01:04many times from the street, many times broken, many times discarded.
01:08Darío, first, congratulations for the work you do.
01:11And then, I ask you to tell me how you got here.
01:14I started here out of nowhere.
01:16I started with a 200-liter drum, with a broken inodor, and a baby car made of corn.
01:22And one day, well, I said, well, I'll start restoring things.
01:26I'll buy and sell.
01:28I buy and sell here.
01:30And I also restore.
01:32I restore the inodor, the bachas, the backpacks.
01:36For the people who pass by here and need to buy a bidet, an inodor,
01:40and can't access a new one, would this be a good option?
01:43Yes, of course.
01:45This is an option because we work to survive with my wife and my children.
01:49And we also work for the people who live nearby,
01:52for those people who can't afford to buy a new bidet.
01:56How much is a new bidet?
01:58A new bidet is 600,000 pesos.
02:00Well, take it. I have 250,000. I have 200,000 pesos.
02:03Take it. Take it.
02:05How do the broken inodors get to you?
02:08They bring them to me. I buy demolition stuff.
02:10Many people bring me things from Recoleta, Bajo Flores, Palermo, Hollywood.
02:17All the people from the capital.
02:19Also the guys who come here with their cars.
02:21I also buy a lot from them.
02:25Can you show us a little bit of your work?
02:27Yes.
02:33This is my wife.
02:35Hello.
02:38Tell me, what are we doing with this inodor?
02:41We are now taking out the sarro, chocolat bandina, detergent.
02:46How do you know when it's ready?
02:48You have to leave it for an hour or two.
02:50And then?
02:51And then my husband throws the acid and cleans it.
02:55Because it burns my hand.
02:57All the skin comes off.
02:58Let me see. Show me.
03:00Ah, yes, look, all your fingers are bald.
03:02Your nails, look.
03:03Yes, I chipped my nails if you hold it like that.
03:06And it had to be wetting your hand.
03:08Because the acid is very strong.
03:09Who taught you how to do this?
03:11Myself.
03:12I learned it myself.
03:14But did you try formulas? How did you find out?
03:17First I did it with lavender.
03:19Alone.
03:20Well, I didn't see results.
03:21Then I started using acid.
03:24And then I started mixing acid with lavender.
03:28Then I said, no, lavender is very loose.
03:30I'm going to use pure chlorine.
03:32Isn't that very toxic?
03:33Yes.
03:34It's unhealthy.
03:36It's unhealthy and it's carcinogenic.
03:39How many hours are you working a day?
03:41And we work from 8 in the morning with my family until 8 at night.
03:45Every day, non-stop.
03:46Does this business leave you money?
03:48You can live.
03:49We, with this business, which is humble, you will know that it is humble,
03:54we eat every day.
04:01Are you building all this yourself?
04:02All by myself.
04:03Who taught you how to build?
04:04I learned. Life taught me.
04:07But did you take a course?
04:09No, looking, looking, looking.
04:11Looking, working from head to toe.
04:13I make the stirrups, I make the shoes, I make the irons, I know how to form.
04:17This is a bathroom.
04:19And bathroom.
04:21There we have things to restore too.
04:23Here too.
04:27Are the windows in place?
04:28Yes.
04:30You don't throw anything, do you?
04:31No, no. I leave everything new.
04:33These bicycles are to be restored.
04:35In a little while they will be ready to be painted, to be sanded and painted.
04:39They are already good.
04:40Everything I see here, I do it myself.
04:42The beds.
04:45What do your children say about seeing you work so many hours a day?
04:48Are you building the house for them with your own hands?
04:50Yes, of course.
04:51Yes, this is for them.
04:52This is for them and for my wife.
04:54I do it because I love them.
04:56And besides, I'm a father.
05:00For them, I want to be ...
05:01Maybe I'm not the best father in the world.
05:03Because I know that there are men of value who have other capacities to make money.
05:09Or maybe they are bigger businessmen.
05:12But I think that when you want to do something in life, the biggest investors start from below.
05:18And I started from below.
05:20And everything I do for my children, for my wife, I do it with love.
05:23And with desire.
05:24And with will.
05:25Because if you don't have will, you can never get ahead.
05:30How are you seeing the situation in the country?
05:32Because you are here in conversation with the clients, with the carpenters, with the world.
05:37And I know it's very fucked up.
05:39I know it's very fucked up.
05:43If I want to buy this bidet, how much is it?
05:45This bidet, I know that if you are going to buy it new, it is at 150,000 pesos.
05:51Here, as it is, without glue, you take it for 60, 50,000.
05:55And this ball?
05:56This ball, I'm offering it for, for example, 80,000 pesos.
06:00There comes a seller.
06:02Let's see, come.
06:03Hello, how are you, friend?
06:04We came to make a note to Darío.
06:07How are you?
06:08All good?
06:09Hello, how are you?
06:10All good, Darío.
06:11All good? Good afternoon.
06:12What are you doing?
06:13I have a new extractor.
06:14A new extractor?
06:15Yes, look.
06:19Well, a seller came.
06:20What do we have?
06:21An extractor.
06:22Does this work or not?
06:23You have to try it.
06:24You have to try it.
06:25You have to try it.
06:26I tried it and everything.
06:27He always sells me things.
06:31How much does something like that sell, friend?
06:33I think 15 pesos.
06:3515 lucas?
06:37It's new.
06:38It's good?
06:39Yes, yes, when there is, yes, I always buy it.
06:41I help him a lot.
06:42What do you bring to sell, Darío?
06:44I bring gold plates, some bars, windows, what they take out on the street.
06:49I work on the street.
06:50Carton boots?
06:51Yes, carton.
06:52And do you make money?
06:53Oh, now I have my daughter in the hospital.
06:55What do you have?
06:56A bullet in my hand.
06:59Yes, I have it for 13 days in the hospital, in the mercantile.
07:02I have two more girls, I have to take care of the girls.
07:05So, you don't know how I am.
07:06Do you live around here?
07:07Yes, here a couple of blocks.
07:09And are there things on the street that people can recover?
07:11Oh yes, sometimes something comes out.
07:13But there are a lot of people gathering now.
07:15Yes, it's complicated, right?
07:16Yes, it's very complicated here.
07:18Hello, how are you?
07:20Perfect, I arrived just in time.
07:22Tell me, who are you?
07:23Miguel, friend, I am a client of his, I met him just today.
07:26Look, he brought me blessings.
07:28Tell me how you met him.
07:29I was just passing by here, I needed just one dollar.
07:32And are you going to take this one?
07:33Obviously.
07:34How was it at the beginning, you didn't see it?
07:36It was more or less, and look how he left it to me, a luxury.
07:38Good price?
07:39Good price, very good.
07:40We brought you luck too.
07:41Yes.
07:43We need you to give us an intensive course on how to recover.
07:46We need to know how to recover from the first grow.
07:49Nothing is easy.
07:50And the name of the program is,
07:52How to get rid of an accident.
07:54Yes, this is the name of the program.
07:56And the name of the program is,
07:58First, if he gets an accident,
08:00He cannot recover from it.
08:01And after he recovers,
08:03He can go to the hospital.
08:04And he can go to the hospital again.
08:07And just like that,
08:08He can recover from it,
08:09He can recover from it,
08:11intensive of how is the step-by-step of the restoration of a sanitary step-by-step is this
08:15this is acid if it is acid this is acid you buy the hardware no this is bought
08:24in chemistry in chemistry this is a chemical this is acid careful please
08:29very strong I have made it acid if this is pure chlorine not the bandit this is pure chlorine
08:38I have made chlorine look at it is already working it is already bursting everything that
08:46he thinks and I have made him detergent base that this ends up shooting him, let's say it ends up
08:54exploding everything inside then I grab or I have to get my hand wet because if you don't
08:59burn your whole hand and you can cut your nails if you cut your nails or you have a wound
09:13it kills you it kills you what comes out
09:15I put it like this because it is impressive the smell that is long
09:22you can't breathe
09:23that's the process but hey, we, I do have to do it, listen to me, I'm leaving, but you stay here, it's not harmful to your organs,
09:33this is harmful to the lungs, what would you need to cover yourself a little to protect yourself,
09:43a mask, gloves, also sandpaper, I have no other way to get ahead more than this,
09:51this is nice at the same time because it generates money but at the same time it is also unhealthy, this is carcinogenic
09:59What is your dream tomorrow?
10:08My dream is to open another business, that my children can also be someone in life, I have one of my children, Leo, who aspires to be a doctor, and well, tomorrow I can have a good position, have another business.
10:29My dream is to open a supermarket, a hardware store, I always say, well, I put a hardware store here in the bar because there is nothing.

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