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ENCOUNTER BETWEEN A DISTRICT SHOCKED AND a politician ("A OSVNI landed at La Pedrera ...")


The first strange event came as a surprise. Some generated fear. To many it was strange. But soon after, when the shock wore off, it was anger that dominated the minds of most of the inhabitants of Barrio La Pedrera, Antímano Parish, who had the unpleasant experience of watching a OSVNI (Unidentified Object Without Shame) had landed on the grounds of their community. Locate

background for understand the annoyance and anger of citizens: In October 2007 (almost three years ago!) a terrible landslide wiped out half of "La Pedrera". The district occupies a steep hill half a century ago was a quarry from which stones were extracted for the construction industry. In the flattened mountain terraces that people called "Plans." There were originally seven "Plans." The collapse of 2007 brought an ax into the neighborhood at its center, becoming a formless mass of mud and debris much of the third, fourth and fifth Plan. The people of the 1st and 2nd Plan kept the imminent danger of a new landslide devastates also their homes. The people of the 6th and 7th Plan were held incommunicado and had to build themselves, with nails, picks and shovels, an alternate route they called "The Trail." Public services, which were always poor, disappeared completely. Chipo, rats and all sorts of vermin took the field, in the absence of urban cleaning service and the fracture of the sewers. Since October 2007, activists and communicators of the Civil Partnership Radar de los Barrios have accompanied this community in anguish and struggle. And never, never seen the presence of an official. Never, until last Thursday, September 9, when suddenly we find this OSVNI (Unidentified Object Without Shame) perched on the rubble of what once was the Fourth Plan of La Pedrera. The

down alien artifact rather than a green midget with antennas, but a fat guy dressed in a red guayabera. Current Member of National Assembly WHERE IS THE CIRCUIT La Pedrera and also candidate for reelection, the subject was present accompanied by an entourage ... of Civil Protection officials, there were obviously required. Also accompanied by a low representation of community councils in the area (low in both numbers and enthusiasm) several of which had said the day before its neighbors: "We can not talk, but you tell that kind of truth in your face" ... ViveTV A team was there to immortalize in the unlikely event video: A government deputy for Antímano had finally arrived at La Pedrera!

in the Third Plan While we talked with Lourdes Garcia (resident of the Seventh Plan, which still had to walk up half a mountain to get to your house) a differentiated threw stones to the journalist and the interviewee, from the heights of the 4th Plan where they were accompanying a politician. "From afar until create beautiful hens," said Nelida Gomez, a militant community leader in the sector known as La China. Then consulted the neighbors: "What do we do? Our goal is to make the story, not to engage in useless confrontation. Decide, because we are here for your decision. " neighbors response was clear: "Palante! This neighborhood is ours, and you are the journalists of us. Fuck those had never been here, and now only come to seek votes. " So we continue the climb, and our step is to add more and more compatriots. Someone in the neighborhood suddenly shouted: "The people, horny, claim your rights!". And that slogan chanting group accompanying us went to the Fourth Plan, where we find the "OSVNI" ...

try talking to the person responsible for Civil Protection, which proved to be a lady, attentive and very professional, to give us the technical explanation of the geological risk the area, but the politician with the tight belly in red guayabera went through his back and ordered silence. "Speak to the deputy first," the official told us, "I need authorization to declare my institution." When we tried to interview the bureaucrat, the rejected appalled: "You come is to make fun of people," he said. To which I replied: "We have three years in solidarity with this fellow, and you are the first time we see around here ...." People called us "Radar, radar, go up here, see this," and nobody could prevent people say its true. And nobody will prevent the spread. This is the text and the full context of this "close encounter of the third kind" in the clouds held back in La Pedrera, between a quarter and a politician outraged automatically.

will move forward without falling into provocations. Violence is the hiding of cowards. The elections passed, the communities are. El Radar de los Barrios too!

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LIVING VOICES OF

La Pedrera:

Adriana Celeste, activist Chavez:

"With much love we call upon the President to be avoque to the situation of La Pedrera. Here is a people Chavez ... But what goes up, down! We climbed power, and we can get down! What is this hatred that you have to Caracas? Caraqueños we are also human beings, we are also people! Dedicate yourself, Chairman, to develop the neighborhoods of Caracas!

Orlando Mora, a resident of the 4th Plan:

"I'ma worker university student at the School of Social Work. My house is right next to the cliff. We need urgent help. This has nothing to do with partisan politics. It is a human rights issue. Nobody offers solutions, just tell us holding them in shelters. Call the President and the Mayor to help us, please. "

Maria Olivo, a resident of the 4th Plan:

" We have three years crisis, but received no official response. The hill above us is crumbling. Living with this anxiety is simply inhumane. "

Lourdes Garcia, a resident of the 7th Plan:

"The inhabitants of the upper are cut off. We need the government to help us improve the alternative pathway , a trail that we built ourselves with nails, picks and shovels. It is necessary to make passable again this avenue for our children to go to school and so we can go to work. "

Olivia Moya, a resident of the 6th Plan:

"Here all construction plans and leave them in half. In the Fifth Plan were braced screen and left halfway through. In the Fourth Plan a torrent poorly constructed that it's actually a mud slide. They say no money to meet the neighborhood, and the little money that is wasted on what works unfinished or poorly done. "

Nelida Gomez, a resident of the 3rd Plan:

"We call upon our government to give us the resources needed to rebuild La Pedrera. That not continue to give us crumbs. If our government gives to countries outside our money, you first have to meet our needs, those of us Venezuelans.

PS: The "Unidentified Object Without Shame" to stay, on our part, as follows: No Identifier. There was only two weeks before parliamentary elections are not going to make it thick for anonymity out of your laziness and bureaucracy have submerged.