Recuerdos de una Ciudad (atardecer)
- il y a 14 ans
Music Yann Keller
Transalation Anna Bösche and Nicolas Sidi
The Santa Ines district, where Cartucho street once was, was at the beginning of the 20th century a wealthy residential neighborhood in the center of Bogota. In the seventies, it turned into a "tolerance area" for drug addicts. In 2002, the city council decided to demolish the district and started to build the very controversial "Park of the Third Millenium".
The residents of the district, mostly beggars and drug addicts, were evicted , some of them being even eliminated by some "social cleaning groups", without anyone caring about their destiny.
These images were taken in 2005, by the end of the eviction and demolition process, without any social measures for these excluded communities who were living only four blocks away from the presidential palace.
Transalation Anna Bösche and Nicolas Sidi
The Santa Ines district, where Cartucho street once was, was at the beginning of the 20th century a wealthy residential neighborhood in the center of Bogota. In the seventies, it turned into a "tolerance area" for drug addicts. In 2002, the city council decided to demolish the district and started to build the very controversial "Park of the Third Millenium".
The residents of the district, mostly beggars and drug addicts, were evicted , some of them being even eliminated by some "social cleaning groups", without anyone caring about their destiny.
These images were taken in 2005, by the end of the eviction and demolition process, without any social measures for these excluded communities who were living only four blocks away from the presidential palace.