Posts Tagged ‘Cartagena’
The walls talk in Cartagena
Cartageneros engaged in a worthwhile act in a city where the current leaders are immersed in serious cases of corruption.
Read MoreInsecurity: desperate measures
Justice through people’s own hands and the deaths in neighborhoods fights show the failure of the State in several sectors of the city, especially those that are outside the tourist circuit.
Read MoreMourning
Last week, two young students resolved a seemingly unimportant dispute with arms. Hopefully the collective mourning for these two boys, their families, and for society itself serves to recognize the marked setback in educational policy, a product, among other reasons, of Ministry of Education’s politicization.
Read MoreWhy talk about rural Cartagena?
91.1% of Cartagena is rural: according to the SISBEN, approximately 70,000 of those who live in the 551 square kilometers face a situation of vulnerability. There, extreme poverty is four times what it is in urban areas.
Read MoreThe Independence of Festivities
The Independence Festivities of Cartagena affirm our identity and foster the social fabric. Thus, they must remain separate from the National Beauty Contest that obscured them with its media strength.
Read MoreDefending Santa Rita
The weight of state neglect fell on the 40 year-old building in the Santa Rita Market, until the community’s claims bore fruit in June 2011, when the Mayor of Cartagena socialized the designs for its renovation and left in a 12,000 million pesos allocation for its construction. However, today the work is a monument to district inefficiency.
Read MoreOpportunities left behind by the crisis
The backwardness of Cartagena’s social welfare has much of its roots in corruption and the successive institutional crises that it has produced. Except for honorable exceptions, clientelism has been the governance model, which includes bribing oversight authorities to guarantee impunity.
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