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4 October, World Habitat Day: TRAGEDIES IN NEIGHBORHOODS REVEAL INCREASE POVERTY IN VENEZUELA

54% of Venezuelans live in neighborhoods whose size, population and vulnerability have increased over the past 11 years.

polarization works against the design and efficient implementation of public policies to improve the habitat in the popular sectors.

The housing problem if it starts, but first you have to eradicate corruption and inefficiency in the public sector.

A oil-producing country like Venezuela can not be measured poverty by the amount of money that eventually may be in the pockets, a day in and day out. Nor is it possible to evaluate relying only on statistics provided by officials acting as government public relations, rather than as technicians. The best way to determine if a country like Venezuela is more or less poverty is admiring the quality of habitat in the popular sectors, and in our country that analysis leaves no doubt: poverty unfortunately this progress because, paradoxically, the money oil has been used not to fight but to entrench poverty.

On Monday October 4 will mark the World Habitat Day . For those who integrated the Civil Partnership Radar de los Barrios , which develops an intense monitoring and reporting citizen activism deteriorating living conditions in the popular sectors, it is clear that the great difference between the past and the present time to habitat quality in the popular sectors of Venezuela, is that until 30 years ago in the neighborhoods of our country was poor habitat, but there were the economic, social and political were conceivable and possible way out of poverty . The Venezuelan that came from a rural farm town to a ranch had expected to move soon to a INAVI apartment and from there, with hard work, getting their children or grandchildren gathered through education to enable them to better jobs up residence middle-class areas with better services and improved quality of life.

SOCIAL MOBILITY VS country mired

Up to half of the seventies in our country, indeed the work and the study allowed the vertical mobility in society , and this in turn allowed horizontal mobility in the city : To take only the example of Caracas, who lived in Antímano had the expectation that their children, thanks to the good jobs that made possible the study could live in Paradise, San Martin and Monte Bello . Those living in Petare had hoped that their children could, by degree, take up residence in The Llanito Macaracuay or the Marquis. That expectation social and geographical mobility was frozen with Black Friday, and then shattered the four mega-devaluations that our currency suffered two in the Caldera II and two in the 11 years since he has been in power.

In contrast to this expectation of progress in our neighborhoods in force until 30 years ago, now have three consecutive decades (the last 20 years of democratic experience began in 1958, and the decade of the Chavez government) that the habitat in our neighborhoods is not only poor: It is also impoverishing . Any apartment costs more than 500 million Bs and any rent is above the two million a month, in a country where half the population is in the informal moonlighting and the other half, which is employed, 80% only earn minimum wage. This actually condemns people to replace the expectation of progress by the mere desire to survive. At the same time, political factors have been identified in the last decade an increase in permissiveness towards the end invasions and a relaxation in the rules for construction, match factors that have enabled our neighborhoods today are not only much larger and villages, but also more insecure vulnertables that a decade ago each .



"SOLO OVER THOSE WHO ASSUME ERROR" welcome

that after 11 years power, President Chavez has finally understood that "the problem of housing is a State issue, and agree with the Chief of the urgent, necessary and possible to develop a set of public policies to address the problem and initiate a solution. But caution, respectful and firm, the first thing government should do is to correct wrong policies and get rid of inefficient and corrupt human teams. The president must remember that only overcome their mistakes who are assumed, and housing 11 long years he has mistaking.

Without these corrective previous government will do nothing but deepen previous mistakes. The only thing that Chavez radicalized the error. When he announces, as if a great thing, to devote 1.5 billion dollars to build housing that is 'his friend Rafael', citing the oil minister and PDVSA president Rafael Ramirez, President Chavez is backsliding on mistakes of these eleven years, Venezuela because if districts have not been enabled and no homes have been built is not just for lack of money.

POLARIZATION CONSPIRING AGAINST THE IMPROVEMENT OF HABITAT

substantially improve the habitat in the popular passes replace housing in neighborhoods at risk, perform the engineering work necessary to manageable Hydraulic and geological risk in popular areas, give the inhabitants of these areas, financial tools and techniques to improve their homes if they are not at risk, optimize core networks to improve the quality of life as white water, sewage and electrical service, optimize or build internal roads allow utilities like urban sanitation and policing come to the ends of each neighborhood and improve or build roads to connect the external neighborhood service centers and employment in the formal city . As shown, this is far more complex than giving a Realaze 'al compadre Rafael', but what is needed. Clearly the government does not have the technical capacity and management to do something like this (if not already done so), but Venezuelan society if you have those capabilities. It is then proposed to address the problem of housing and housing the government open to participation by civil society, academia and the private sector. Otherwise, the government only continue with the same nagging polarized, and the tragedies in the neighborhoods will lie to official statistics and government advertising.

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Blandin, Carapita: LIVES WITH THE PEOPLE PAY THE "AUTO-CHAVOTEO"

Radar in Santa Ana, Carapita, compared to "cap" of vehicles and debris that finally stopped the mudslide that claimed seven lives

write these lines impacted by the dimensions of the tragedy in the afternoon and evening of Friday 24 September, when a prolonged downpour generated a significant amount of overflow of streams and landslides. In the Santa Ana, Carapita, in the parish Antímano, the landslide came to collect seven deaths and about 20 homes boarded up. According to neighbors, the disaster may have generated even more victims. At the time of writing this column still and fire personnel continued to search for Civil Protection.

Santa Ana, Carapita. This bridge was six feet high. The mud went up so much that now seems he's always been at ground level ...

AS IN 1999 ...

As in 1999, the imminent execution of an electoral event tarnishes, subtract or divert attention from (and solidarity) that would elicit such a tragedy. It is not only that while the inhabitants of Antímano faced an avalanche of mud and terror, President Chavez ("ironies of life, faces of death?) Is preparing to distribute its proselytizing chain" the good life cards ". It is not only alienated the emphasis that all television channels controlled by the state placed on electoral, while muting ignored or put information on the mess created by incompetence and triggered by the rain. This is in addition to ourselves, the whole country. Surely, it will be on Tuesday or Wednesday when, once the final results of parliamentary elections, Venezuela "is of mind" to find out what really happened in Caracas, Vargas and Senior Mirandinos on Friday night 24. but meanwhile, let us be seated after a few points that can not be overlooked when considering why in less than a week fourteen Venezuelans have lost their lives "because of the rains" in a tropical country, precisely where Most often, it rains. These points are:

With hands, barefoot, residents of Santa Ana, Carapita, worked to remove the debris blocking the embaulamiento of the gorge, in a hurry, before the rain again ...

1) This is not a "natural disaster." In fact, "natural disasters" DO NOT EXIST. There natural hazards (hurricane, earthquake, volcano, etc.) Which when combined with social vulnerability, create a disaster. WHY IS THAT WHILE IN OTHER COUNTRIES THE PASSAGE OF A HURRICANE ONLY CAUSE DAMAGE AND ANY VICTIM ISOLATED IN A FEW HOURS OF RAIN VENEZUELA cost him his life the whole family. What happened in Carapita Blandin and was therefore not a "natural misfortune." Those 14 compatriots died because in this immensely rich country governments have been unable to use that wealth to give citizens a life in which the risks are duly warned. a secure life. a life without fear ...

walked in Santa Ana, Carapita on the mud, and we saw houses on our side. In fact what we saw was the second floor of the houses. The first level was buried in the mud ...

2) This DISASTER SOCIAL AND POLITICAL which we live is, as you said the President Hugo Chávez, historical causes. BUT IS ALSO RESPONSIBLE POINT, SPECIFIC, SPECIFIC! The rural Venezuela early twentieth century was a gaunt country, massacred by tuberculosis, bilharzia and malaria especially, then faces the direst poverty. Given the wealth that brought the start of oil exploitation, the people left the certain death by neglect and abandonment that awaited him in the field and went to the cities in search of a better life. So Venezuela today is that 90% of the population lives in cities and towns, 80% live in the north-coast of the country and 40% live in just eight major population centers. This happened between 1936 and 1998: people are "all evenly" where was he had a better chance to survive: in the cities. IN THE COMING YEARS OF 1998 TO NOW THAT PROCESS OF CONCENTRATION OF RESOURCES (and consequent overcrowding) what you've done is to sharpen. political centralism has done that now everything depends on Caracas. The communist effort to destroy the local business community has done in Venezuela now almost 100% of what we eat and dress is imported. Everything comes through the ports. And those who live far from the ports is less likely that wealth even "splashes." It is no coincidence that the poorest states and municipalities in the country are those in the southern border, the farthest north to the coastal strip. In other words, if it is true what the President says, that the recent tragedies in the neighborhoods are part of the "historical guilt" of the so-called "Fourth Republic", will then be concluded that the worst government in the is precisely this Fourth Republic, headed by Hugo Chávez.

3) But besides the historical responsibility (Which, as we have seen, Chavez shares) is also a special responsibility, timely, current. And that if it is completely and utterly of this government, which already has 12 long years in power. THE GOVERNMENT has sabotaged (or rather, HA "Chavot) Enabling YOUR OWN NEIGHBORHOOD. In 2000, the high government froze the National Neighborhood Empowerment, bounced to the professionals working there and disappoint communities, enthusiastic, involved in projects. In 2005, the top bureaucrats destroyed a new attempt, the Transformation Programme Endogenous Barrios. On both occasions, the President himself Chavez was the star of these disastrous decisions: in 2000 gave all power in the housing sector to his then friend, General Victor Cruz Weffer. In 2005 it gave the group of Lt. Diosdado Cabello, who when not exercised directly Housing portfolio placed in that position for someone in his entourage. On both occasions, the result was failure. Failure, of course, very expensive, which has cost the state billions of dollars (we do not know where they went, because no homes), and that the town has cost human lives.

RISK MANAGEMENT VS. DISASTER MANAGEMENT

... Nobody, therefore, is called deception. The tragedies of Blandin and Carapita are not "sad stories." are the inevitable result of wrong public policies, also carried by an inept and corrupt government . In crisis on Friday as 24, the country is likely to recognize the heroism of firefighters and rescue workers of Civil Protection, which delivers capacity and contrasts with the incompetence and indifference of bureaucrats. But today it is clear that the efficient way of saving lives is not "managing the disaster well." In fact what should be done in properly managing risks, precisely so that the disaster did not occur. For that we need in our country change. A policy change, and people to run these new policies. Today, Sunday 26 September is a great day to think and act in that direction.

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"Polarization " Work of Venezuelan painter Ender Cepeda

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The "quality" of something depends on what you want to do with that. If you are going to be in a luxurious holiday, perhaps the best glass quality is a glass of fine crystal. But if you're on the beach or an excursion to Avila, the glass "thinner" will surely be rather a plastic, to hold without breaking the ravages of the road. The quality of something is NOT a condition of the object itself, but a consequence of their suitability for use. In other words, no object is "good" or "bad" in itself: It depends on what it wants one.

The same goes for politicians, specifically with elected officials. What if the candidate "of the Revolution" are good, average, bad or very bad? What if the candidate "of Democratic Unity" are excellent or are a disaster? Look, it depends on what you want. Would be foolish to believe at this point that there are only good people (or just bad people) in a particular party. As also would be a mistake to assume that better or worse quality of a public servant is something that comes with the color of the shirt, or the party card.

"THE REVOLUTION IS HERE TO STAY"

Rather, the key issue of quality of politicians become public officials (governors, mayors, deputies, etc..) Can be in this sentence, President Chavez often repeat frequently: "This revolution is here to stay." Obviously, no politician comes to power it to go as fast as you can! And this has to do only with the desire to perpetuate Third in command. It's actually a universal phenomenon, as in the case of the concept of "quality" has been examined in depth by experts in the functioning of organizations: any bureaucracy (read well, ALL, whatever it is ...) is first objective, as the main mission, sometimes as only real purpose, to perpetuate itself. applied this principle to politics, then we with political parties, movements or "revolutions" born with a very nice speech, denouncing promising one thing and another. But once they get into power they forget all that and the only thing pending is what to do to bolt on power. This happened before, so it is now, and those who read us know we are telling the truth about the size of a house ...

The same happens when we speak not of the bureaucracy in general, but officials in particular: The first thing you think a governor, a mayor or a congressman when he comes at last to the position he has been looking for, is as able to stay in him as much time as possible, and uses it to continue "to above. " And there we key point: That official will do anything to maintain and improve the relationship with the factor that put him in power. There must be a "genius" in political science to understand: No governor, mayor or deputy who will fight to put "the good."

CAN NOT BE WITH GOD AND THE DEVIL ...

The issue then is that the quality of public officials depends on who ultimately is his loyalty: If a red-rojito deputy knows he is none, that his name not known anyone that his face does not recognize anyone, and that is where it is simply because Chavez put it there, Who do you think will be the deputy at the time of a pod, when investigating a stew or punish an arbitrary? How the people Chavez, with the people in general, the poor, with the leg on the floor, or the almighty finger him out of anonymity and guamazo one put it "where"? That's why so much has happened while the current deputies serious look at those monkeys that neither see nor hear, nor say anything. That's why we did not see or the mega stew with the new building Pérez Hospital Lion of Petare, and the scandal of lost fortune in the electrical system but we are between blackouts, or smelled the 120 thousand kilos of rotten food in containers PDVAL. "Mapurite know who pee" say in the field. And they are right.

The same reasoning works, but in reverse, with the members of the "Democratic Unity" leaving elected on 26 September. These gentlemen, whoever they are, know that if elected will it beat out the machinery and the state money through the support of the people. They know they owe their position (ie: they owe their political life) not the party which may or bud, but resteó people to them, even under open handicap. These Members will want, like the "Rojitas" remain in their jobs and move up the policy. But unlike his fellow members of the PSUV, the opposition deputies who want to strengthen and enhance its position as politicians can not solve it, "jalándole" more and better to a "commander" No, sir! The opposition MP who wants to "stay and come" have to "take the rest", working with and for the people who elected him. That's why we'll see claiming that Barrio Adentro is closed, or claiming that the food does not Houses comes to food, or that the elderly do not pay them their pensions should be, or any other of the myriad things that can and should make a deputy, beyond meeting and raise your hand.

THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY

As shown, red-rojito Members will be "bad" (beyond their personal, of his intelligence or character) because they simply are not there to be "good." They will be in the Assembly to do the same thing they have done in the past five years their pay, raise their hands when ordered and "made fools" when the government is appropriate. Feo, the piece of paper that will continue to play play. Instead, the deputies of the Democratic Unity should be good (again, regardless of their personal characteristics) because they simply have no choice: O strengthen its support base working for people, or take them down the middle of Red machinery.

In either case, citizens will be here, vigilant, social control to one another. For the times of bureaucratic impunity are over.

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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.