It is hard to believe that this beautiful landscape is the scenario for La Chureca's drama.
Or that in front of the Xolotlán's lake, its islands and volcanoes...
...you find out this mountain of garbage. Tragsa, a Spanish public company specialised in construction and engineering, has already started the works to seal the dump at the back of La Chureca. While the Churequeros still select and recycle the garbage that is thrown everyday at La Chureca, the machines now also share a space in this piece of hell, this outside world.
Tragsa CO: This is what we can do best: to construct.
Taking decisions about the works. It is hard to spend the whole working day at La Chureca. Unlike other construction works, here both the social drama of a inhabited garbage dump and the air pollution make work more stressful and exhausting than usual. This partnership between AECID (Spanish Aid Organisation) and Tragsa becomes more and more common in different international contexts. This is a new time for AECID organising aid and cooperation. But how is the encounter of the techno-scientific discourse of architects or engineers with the social scientists involved in this project? "Yes, we will improve housing and the environment, but people will be the same". Argue some of them. For a second, they envied the 'simplicity' of constructing and building.
Hi María José: My name is A. C. H. and I am working in a Urban Design competition for the actual clearing of the La Chureca.
ResponderEliminarI am looking for pictures of this site and vecinity which will help to solve some physical and social issues on my proposal. If you have other pictures that you would like to share with me I will appreciate. My address: (no spaces). Thanks you Note: I am not in Nicaragua and it is not a for profit initiative.
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