“My abdomen hurt so much that I felt sick”

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Bildquelle: Business Spotlight, Ausgabe 10/2021

AMY BOOTH is a journalist who reports on Argentina and Bolivia for publications including The Guardian, VICE and the BBC.

I still remember the last afternoon at my old job. I was having problems with some price calculations and called my supervisor over to check the numbers. With a sigh, he leaned over my desk and ran the figures again. The numbers weren’t the real reason I couldn’t think, but I wasn’t about to tell him that. It was the ...