Linares told the Los Angeles Times in 1991, “My father was also a cartonero, but he made only masks, little horses, very simple things–he was not a sculptor of papier-mache. What I began is ...
José Salgado, 31, is a cartonero, a cardboard collector in the city’s rubbish dumps, who contracted dengue haemorrhagic fever, a severe form of the disease. “It wasn’t very clear to me how ...