As much as it sounds innocent, this show is real. If any form of child labor is negligible, this creepy and dangerous show still seems more like it. In a town in Thailand the children stage a fight with snakes as a tourist attraction, the highlight of the show.
The cobra and other snakes coexist with the inhabitants of a small village in northeastern Thailand where reptiles have replaced the dog as the main pet. Ban Kok Sanga is known for the "village of cobras", and has found in this representation of children facing snakes A reason to attract visitors.
Both the children and other participants in the "circus" have suffered bites from the cobras, although fortunately the villagers themselves know the antidote, which they have made for years based on a medicinal plant.
The worst (to put something worse) is that even through this struggle, children and their families do not manage to get out of poverty, and they are subsisting hardly thanks, above all, to the income from the sale of traditional concoctions and elixirs.
That is, although the town is already on the map for this spectacle with snakes (thanks to the idea of a doctor six decades ago), children and their families remain in poverty. It would have been better if this fame served to help this community, although we are in a country where poverty and child exploitation are a scourge and not an isolated case.
Children fighting with snakes as a tourist attraction in Thailand they do it in a kind of ring, imitating a boxing match, but in which the punches are replaced by attacks of poisonous snakes, which children have learned to dodge.
Yes see children work in the circus I find it sad to see how these children do, facing danger every day and displaying themselves for a few coins, it makes me much more sad.
