Translation of scatter in Spanish

We had never been so close to monkeys and they seemed to play with us. We threw bananas into the trees which were elegantly captured by these little monkeys. It was really funny and new to us.
It must have taken them years and ten's of thousands of workers to accomplish the tasks of constructing such spectacular compounds. We took many pictures and walked back to the taxi.
In Guatemala this is one of our biggest problems at the moment: young and pore people take drugs and drink alcohol because they are depressed and bored. The capital has become very dangerous.