"Central Hostel" is the grandiose name of the horrible den in which they were piled up on Friday January 14 800 Guarenas compatriots. The only three bathrooms giving service to these citizens as well as a few were not part of the solution but the problem because the pipes were clogged that human excreta from reaching the ankles of refugees in some parts of "Hostel" the basement full of garbage and rubble even before the arrival of the victims, was the source of the immense quantity of rats and other vermin that threatened those who were driven there by the government for allegedly being treated "with dignity."
Tired of abuse and the answers (sometimes evasive, rude mocking others, useless always) to military officials, human beings who were there claimed their status as such and came to express to the Caracas-Guarenas. 's protest affected brothers was hit by a vehicle. Four rolls, three with generalized lesions, one in serious condition, was the outcome of the protest. As I write this note even Karen Bastidas, a woman of just 21 years old, fighting for his life in hospital Domingo Luciani. Is the price he paid for his demand to be treated as a person ...
VISITING SHELTERS IN FORMULA ONE ... -
While this was happening, some forty kilometers away the city President arrived at Paseo Los Heroes, crewing, "daringly" a luxurious black Mercedes Benz car to be present in a young pilot demonstration of how Venezuela would drive a Formula 1 racing car. "I already made my handling demonstration with the Mercedes, now it's up to you," he said jokingly, words, words less, the Head of the pilot of F1, before handing the national flag. $ 36 million in estimated some specialized means the amount of the contribution made by the Venezuelan state of PDVSA to finance this campaign and track athlete in this great business scenarios and exciting sport has worldwide. Change of 4.30 devalued bolivar "strong" dollar, the money invested in the operation of sponsorship advertising and propaganda profit would have reached to give almost 200 thousand Bolivars (Bs F exactly 193,500, oo, ie 193 million and a half Bs of before ...) to each of the victims of "Youth Center", in Guarenas.
While this was happening, some forty kilometers away the city President arrived at Paseo Los Heroes, crewing, "daringly" a luxurious black Mercedes Benz car to be present in a young pilot demonstration of how Venezuela would drive a Formula 1 racing car. "I already made my handling demonstration with the Mercedes, now it's up to you," he said jokingly, words, words less, the Head of the pilot of F1, before handing the national flag. $ 36 million in estimated some specialized means the amount of the contribution made by the Venezuelan state of PDVSA to finance this campaign and track athlete in this great business scenarios and exciting sport has worldwide. Change of 4.30 devalued bolivar "strong" dollar, the money invested in the operation of sponsorship advertising and propaganda profit would have reached to give almost 200 thousand Bolivars (Bs F exactly 193,500, oo, ie 193 million and a half Bs of before ...) to each of the victims of "Youth Center", in Guarenas.
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double standards, the same tragedy .
Like almost all other aspects of national life, the government has addressed the issue of the districts with a double discourse: On the one hand says that "love", but otherwise acts with criminal negligence by failing to design and implement public policies that make the risk manageable hydraulic and geological affects those communities where we live no more and no less than 54% of the country. For 12 years, the government of President Chávez stressed the centrality in the past 40 years forced the population to concentrate in the cities of North-Coastal country for 12 years, the government of President Chávez stressed the permissiveness that enabled these cities whole communities for decades to settle in inappropriate places. So today, after 12-year rule of President Chavez, the neighborhoods are much larger than in 1998, but the provision of roads and basic services is the same, so that the quality of life has become much more miserable ble.
Like almost all other aspects of national life, the government has addressed the issue of the districts with a double discourse: On the one hand says that "love", but otherwise acts with criminal negligence by failing to design and implement public policies that make the risk manageable hydraulic and geological affects those communities where we live no more and no less than 54% of the country. For 12 years, the government of President Chávez stressed the centrality in the past 40 years forced the population to concentrate in the cities of North-Coastal country for 12 years, the government of President Chávez stressed the permissiveness that enabled these cities whole communities for decades to settle in inappropriate places. So today, after 12-year rule of President Chavez, the neighborhoods are much larger than in 1998, but the provision of roads and basic services is the same, so that the quality of life has become much more miserable ble.
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It is also clear that the vision "bureaucratic" charitable " that the slum problem has been not only the opposition but much of the Venezuelan society, has also been inefficient. Think neighborhoods as "those people, poor thing" who must "make it please take it out of there" and "take it to other sites" is to deny the right to the city who have been the builders. That 54% of the country's population living in the neighborhoods are a key part of the production potential and capacity to make viable consumer to Venezuela as a country. Think of them as "problems" to resolve policing or as "victims" to be treated charitably, no nearer to real solutions, achievable and sustainable.
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THE COUNTRY'S FUTURE IN THE SHELTERS INCUBA .
All of which brings us back to the issue of homeless and shelters. The government proposes to apply a "centrifuge", transferring schools to warehouses, from warehouses to barracks, from barracks to offices, offices in tents, until the current 130 000 victims are reduced (for desertion and fatigue) within year and a half to a number of "manageable", including 10 and 15 thousand, then say, when we are in the middle stretch of the presidential-election campaign that "will fulfill 100% of the victims", not to mention concerns the 100% which has withstood 18 months of ruleteo infamous e inhuman. On the other hand, it is expected that the opposition is pending demagogic this whole process, to denounce and expose him, so that the government pay the political cost of electoral mismanagement . All this is expected and understandable, but ... "Meanwhile, what about people?
All of which brings us back to the issue of homeless and shelters. The government proposes to apply a "centrifuge", transferring schools to warehouses, from warehouses to barracks, from barracks to offices, offices in tents, until the current 130 000 victims are reduced (for desertion and fatigue) within year and a half to a number of "manageable", including 10 and 15 thousand, then say, when we are in the middle stretch of the presidential-election campaign that "will fulfill 100% of the victims", not to mention concerns the 100% which has withstood 18 months of ruleteo infamous e inhuman. On the other hand, it is expected that the opposition is pending demagogic this whole process, to denounce and expose him, so that the government pay the political cost of electoral mismanagement . All this is expected and understandable, but ... "Meanwhile, what about people?
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People want decent housing. It turns out that neither the government nor anyone can be "give." is necessary, then a new way to successfully address the issue of the districts, that is the subject of housing, which is itself the subject of how to build cities and the country's present and future. Beyond authoritarian delusions and false charity, the new way to use the capacity building of people (which is by far the most efficient player in the construction of houses, much more than the State and that the same company closed), the technical capabilities of companies, universities and professional and financial leverage oil to build together the decent solution, feasible and sustainable one has been able to build by yourself: Convert neighborhoods throughout Venezuela in popular condos inhabited by a people of their owner not only home but also of its destiny .
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The main protagonists of that cross must be the fellow who now languish in filthy huts as "Central Hostel," and those who still live at risk in our neighborhoods, as well see that the real solutions are those born in your hands, not that-sometimes as promises, sometimes as stones, are in the populist discourse of the warlords.
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