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epa01264090 A boy carries mine rubble from a pumice stone mine in Masaya 35 kilometers southeast of Managua, Nicaragua, 22 February 2008. Small entrepeneurs that work the mines declared to the national Government that they are having a lot of economic problems and that is one of the reasons why they hire children to work for less money than a regular adult worker and also pointed that if those difficulties are not solved it might lead to closure of the mines. EPA/Mario Lopez