makes a violent journey through time to compare this tragedy with a juvenile proportions earlier this month the Ministry of Housing decided to "relocate" to 19 families from an illegal settlement Trade and Bolton, and install them for two years in the residential complex of Euzkalerría. Immediately Euzkalerría neighbors gathered to stop the action of the Ministry, stating, according Butazzoni, which will astound "sic" citations perfectly understandable sentences and well-written that these families have "customs very, very different, which "manage other codes" and have "no legal work habits." Which argued it would upset the delicate balance of these large social housing complexes. Mobilized, the neighbors threatened to stop paying their dues to the BHU.
Butazzoni gets very upset and compares this attitude with that of those who ordered the dies the Iroquois, but despite the exaggerated of comparison, the writer makes the same unfavorably for Euzkalerría neighbors, because while the colonists had been brutally frank about his dislike for the Indians, "the neighbors Bolton and settlement of the trade have been flooded with circumlocution and rhetorical traps, left, mental, spiritual right. " Then metonymically is unsupportive and makes an example of the fracture of the social fabric, etc, ends reasoning that, now that things start to go well in the country (...) and that tax reform "opened prepare our pockets, it's time to "open hearts "to" Euzkalerría episodes like that denigrates us all as a society, no more occur.
Let's leave aside the fundamental injustice that, while the inhabitants of religiously charged Euzkalerría ( well, those that do) their shares of the BHU for his membership in that once a model complex, the Ministry of Housing decided to give him access to it for a number of families that the state itself decided to move from their original settlement. Never mind the you can not blame a lack of community solidarity by responding to an extent that she did not decide and was negotiated without consultation. Put aside that "mandatory solidarity" is an oxymoron. Put aside the immediate depreciation of the properties that would mean (oh yeah, what material, what else), rather than curse the grace that should make those who are paying them for years and which are not exactly part of the owners of Uruguay. Leave aside that much to be outraged by Butazzoni essential cultural differences between lower-middle class or the working class in general and near-destitute underclass settlements is real and not fueled by bias evil ideologues of capitalism. Put aside the reasons listed by the inhabitants of Euzkalerría are euphemisms that obscure class prejudice but are made quite objectives. Leave aside that if a violent classism is the authorities who believe that, as they gain little, the inhabitants of Euzkalerría workers are identical to those of a settlement, while no one would have thought even relocate to such families in one of the state buildings to fart in a bourgeois neighborhood. Forget the poor child Manichaeism eternal good, bad neighbors. Put aside the obvious question of whether the mad Butazzoni lives by chance in the Euzkalerría, condition sine qua non to comment with such moral authority. Leave aside to Butazzoni. Forget the voluntarism, Rousseau thought, demagogy and generosity solidarity with non-one, and simply ask: Who was the genius who came up with relocating families from a squat right, right, right in the Euzkalerría ? Even knowing that the ministry has luminaries as Mariano Arana and Jaime Igorra to the head, I still find a joke in bad taste.
I mean for the forgetful, the resort Euzkalerría 70, inhabited by some 1,400 families of workers from lower-middle class for the most part, lives, street involved, with a particularly violent settlement, one of the seven area, located in the vicinity of the Faculty of Science, which became a center of plunder and outbursts whose main victims are women from the resort. The crime rate reached such levels that the stores in the area imposed an escrow service so that housewives could go shopping without being assaulted on the road.
As if this were not a source of tension, just three years ago, a police officer who paid the service 222 in the complex-paid Euzkalerría neighbors just by the increase in crime in the area-mad teasing by a group teen of the complex and opened fire on them, killing a boy, Santiago Yerlan 18, and wounding five others. The atrocity was a reaction immediate neighbors, who came out en masse to protest against the police, but also of the inhabitants of the settlement, drawing outrage from neighbors had been removed to the police, crossed the street to loot shops and garages complex, attacking several neighbors pitch to cry, according to testimony gathered by the bulletins of PVP (not exactly a source spokesperson or right handed), "Let's steal everything, to see who stops us." Euzkalerría There were 300 calls of 70 to 911, not the answer, and the next day dawned with a complex of the dead boys, several shot and, like some of the pain of this senseless death, with their few possessions stolen and vandalized environment in honor of the opportunity created.
words, there should be more aware Montevideo community negatively, with reason or with some, but not without reasons, to the settlements that the inhabitants of Euzkalerría. And what happens to the Ministry of Housing? Install a similar extraction 20 families in the middle of the complex. Great, why not a monument to the Tróccoli Rampla, anyway?
final I do not want to take sides in these things, to the much talked about social breakdown we can discuss hours about which came first, the chicken or the egg, and not getting anywhere, but the matter is that it exists and there are steps long and short term to address it. Volunteerism and faith in the human condition are not exactly essential for them and reducing the phenomenon of violence against hunger is a simplification as criminal as the acts themselves which produce the fracture. No problem with dreaming of better worlds, as long as during wakefulness remember that we are on this.
Butazzoni In your letter lists the undeniable terrible living conditions in settlements, rats, lice, trash, dilapidated dentures, ignorance, and remember that such individuals are not welcome in most other neighborhoods. " They have large areas that are forbidden, in districts they do not venture, streets that have never spent even . "True, no doubt. But Butazzoni, as part of the IMM should, before applauding the arbitrary arrangement of communities outside-do the math on how many homes could have quartermaster furnished with the millions of dollars left to evaporate from the coffers of the casinos, or the even more numerous that went into the pockets of officials ADEOM because of the horrors Frente contract administration. And it should, especially , turn the telescope and also remember that the marginalized are not only forbidden spaces, there are other zones for the majority of whose guilt Montevideo not paid with contempt or class but often face the most cherished possessions or life itself. As the streets surrounding the complex Euzkalerría, converted into Apache territory for all women, the elderly and workers who once dreamed of living in peace in a collective community, under its own rules.
