Groups of Buenos Aires residents will demonstrate this Monday in various parts of the City of Buenos Aires against urban policies implemented by the Government of Horacio Rodriguez Larretawhich they considered “authoritarian” and aimed at “favoring the speculative real estate market and providing public space for commercial uses.”
This Monday the 12th, from 6:30 p.m. onwards, concentrations will be held in Parque Lezama, Villa Crespo and Villa del Parque to defend “our environmental quality, our heritage and participatory democracy”, with specific claims for each area, they indicated in a statement .
Lezama Park
At 7:00 p.m., they will hold a rally in Parque Lezama “in defense of the Historic Center”because the execution of the Plan of Renovation of the Historical Center “advances without pause and we are already experiencing the detrimental consequences for neighbors and merchants,” they said.
In this sense, they highlighted the “Lack of control of the use of public space in pursuit of the Gastronomic Pole”warned about “the danger of the bollards” and expressed “concern about the unsafe conditions of the San Telmo Market.”
In addition, they indicated that “by withdrawing the buses from our streets they leave us on foot. We ask for alternative public transport for people with reduced mobility, schools for the blind, the elderly”.
Regarding the works on Calle Perú, they assured that “breaking the concrete pavement through the use of percussion machines endangers the stability of existing buildings.”
Villa Crespo
On the other hand, at 7:30 p.m. there will be a concentration at the intersection of Corrientes and Dorrego Avenues, in the Villa Crespo neighborhood.
“Neighbors of Villa Crespo, we have been enduring with greater intensity for the last six months all kinds of inconveniences in our daily lives as a result of the activities that take place at the Movistar Arena seven days a week“, they pointed out.
“Enough” at “vibrations in buildings towers more than five blocks from the stadium”, the “annoying noises at night”, the “street closures”, “badly parked” cars, “prolonged” camping and the dirt “that remains after each show,” they said.
Villa del Parque and Santa Rita
Meanwhile, residents of Villa del Parque, Santa Rita and other neighboring neighborhoods will make a traffic light from 6:30 p.m. on Avenida Beiro and Cuenca requesting “the Executive and Legislative Branch of the City of Buenos Aires the brake on the increase in constructive capacity in our neighbourhoods”.
“In 2018, the New Urban Code for the City of Buenos Aires came into force, which resulted in the repeated power outages that have been occurring due to the high-rise buildings in Villa del Parque and Santa Rita, which has also generated low or no water pressure, reduction of private absorbent land, indiscriminate felling of trees and the reduction of green area/inhabitant”, they detailed.
They also mentioned the “destruction of the characteristic neighborhood identities of low houses, the demolition of historical heritage, and the deterioration in the quality of the air we breathe, visual and sound pollution.”
“The invasion of rodents, cockroaches and dengue fever due to demolitions and constructions and their consequent movement of the soil,” they stressed.
