Mobilization in Puerto Madero to demand the urbanization of the slums

Mobilization in Puerto Madero to demand the urbanization of the slums

Leaders and activists of social organizations mobilize in Puerto Madero to demand the Buenos Aires Government for the “urgent urbanization of the popular neighbourhoods and slums of the City” of Buenos Aires.

“Neighbors live in poverty, overcrowded, with floods, without sewers, without electricity, with permanent water cuts, with lack of access to decent health conditions and collapsed schools,” said one of the representatives of the social organizations.

The demonstrators gathered shortly before noon at the intersection of Alem and Corrientes Avenues and from there marched through Puerto Madero to the floating Casino, located on Elvira Rawson de Dellepiane Avenue, on the Costanera Sur.

“Now we are marching through the neighbourhood of Puerto Madero, through the heart of Puerto Madero, as a symbol of the enormous inequality that the City of Buenos Aires is going through,” informed spokespersons of the social movements.

Marina Joski, the referent of La Dignidad, expressed; “We marched for Puerto Madero because it is where the rich get richer and richer and the poor get poorer and poorer”.

“The luxurious towers without people grow and multiply as part of a city project that privileges financial speculation over the needs of the people,” said Josky.