The mayor of Quito, Santiago Guarderas, visited the ground zero of the alluvium, in the La Comuna sector in Quito. A video recorded when a citizen threw mud at him.
“We are defenders of the hillsides” was what a man shouted after throwing mud at the mayor of Quito, Santiago Guarderas. The fact was recorded in a video that circulated on February 3, 2022, on social networks.
The event occurred when the Mayor was conducting a tour of ground zero of the flood, which has left 26 dead and more than 50 injured.
The man whom the Police personnel removed after the attack on the Mayor, also shouts that “the forests have been sold”, mentions to Urkupamba a project of the Cenizario that will include 35.58 hectares on the slopes of the Pichincha volcano.
In relation to #alluvium that arose in #QuitoAccording to the technical analysis, the “Urkupamba Ecological Cenizario” did not have an impact, since it is located in the Rumipamba stream, a runoff area different from that of Guanga Huaycu, where the affected area is located. pic.twitter.com/pG21V2MsR5
— Ministry of Environment, Water and Ecological Transition (@Ambiente_Ec) February 3, 2022
Although the Municipality of Quito indicated that the project has no impact on what happened in La Comuna and La Gasca, sectors of Quito where the mud from the alluvium has affected more than 400 people; there are environmental groups that point out that in the long run, deforestation on the slopes creates events like the one on January 31, 2022.
This February 4, 2022, a tour will be carried out in the area to determine the impact of the project, which has been denounced by seven neighborhoods of the Belisario Quevedo parish. (AVV)
FACT: LA HORA asked the National Police if the man who threw the mud was arrested. The entity replied that it collates the information.
The Urkupamba cemetery is not related to the event that occurred in the Quebrada El Tejado or Guangahuaycu. pic.twitter.com/VJYg4tghPC
— Othon Zevallos M (@othonzevallosm) February 1, 2022
