Social organizations mobilize in Puerto Madero to demand the “urbanization of the villas”
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Leaders and militants of the Corriente Villera Independiente (CVI) and the Popular Movement (MP) La Dignidad mobilize this Friday in Puerto Madero, to demand the Buenos Aires government for the “urgent urbanization of the popular neighborhoods and villas of the City” from Buenos Aires (Caba).
The demonstrators gathered shortly before noon at the intersection of Alem and Corrientes avenues and from there they marched through Puerto Madero to the floating casinolocated on Avenida Elvira Rawson de Dellepiane without number, on the Costanera Sur.
“Now we are marching through the Puerto Madero neighborhood, through the heart of Puerto Madero, as a symbol of the enormous inequality that the City of Buenos Aires is going through,” spokespersons for the social movements told Télam.
Within this framework, Marina Joski, a benchmark for MP The Dignity, expressed; “We march through Puerto Madero because it is where the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.”
“The luxurious towers without people grow and multiply as part of a city project that privileges financial speculation over people’s needs,” Josky said.
And he added: “Meanwhile in the villas, settlements and popular neighborhoods the neighbors live in poverty, overcrowded, with floods, without sewers, without power lines, with permanent water cutswith a lack of access to decent health conditions and collapsed schools”.
For the leader of the La Dignidad movement, “neighbors guarantee cleanliness, works, work in their neighborhoods and for their neighborhoods with enormous dignity, commitment, community awareness, participation and planning.”
“It is time to recognize this work with the increase in works in neighborhoods that improve the quality of life and project a city without inequality,” he finally concluded.
