Memory Gallery
August 19, 2021Editorial
The city woke up with the smell of smoke
with an indifferent look at the periphery that lives on the hills of the city of slums. A fire consumed three houses and three people were burned, for the city, the media and its administration, a figure and a human tragedy. For those of us who live and inhabit the neighborhoods, it is a human and social tragedy., in the face of inclemency and lack of political will, to address structural problems of the city, such as the right to decent housing.
The city of misgovernance accumulates localized poverty on its slopes and with it, social problems are accentuated, environmental and cultural, houses without public services, Venezuelan migrant families, peasants dispossessed of their land, families abandoned by the state; Altos de Samaria, one of the neighborhoods of the nobodies that are worth less than the bullets that kill them, as Galeano says. But they are killed daily by the omission and lack of political will of a city that plans to beautify its boulevards and fails to dignify the lives of its children..
The city of misgovernance
The poverty that is located accumulates on its slopes and with it, social problems are accentuated, environmental and cultural, houses without public services, Venezuelan migrant families, peasants dispossessed of their land, families abandoned by the state; Altos de Samaria, one of the neighborhoods of the nobodies that are worth less than the bullets that kill them, as Galeano says. But they are killed daily by the omission and lack of political will of a city that plans to beautify its boulevards and fails to dignify the lives of its children..
Those infants that in his song Alí Primera alludes to “Children the color of my land.”, with the same scars, millionaires of worms and that's why... Children live in cardboard houses"
What childhoods do they tell us about?? Are we the city of open doors or of denied rights? ¿Qué más tiene que suceder para que la ciudad ponga la discusión pública del derecho a la vivienda digna y ponga como eje central la vida y no la movilidad?
love the city
It is recognizing its structural problems and making investment, build with people, the working families who build the city, the city outside, the one that looks far away, the one who looks lost, the one that marginalizes, excludes misery from its slopes, the one that denies its citizens their rights, to which they come in the campaign to ask for votes, but the rest is the unaesthetic part of the city.
“You won't believe it.”, but there are dog schools and they educate them, so they don't bite the newspapers, but to the boss, like the rulers in power, years ago, many years, that are biting the worker.”
Andrés Felipe Marín
a city, that prioritizes roads over life, It will never be able to continue being named the best nursery in the country.
