During Macri's government, 113 people died in the streets of cold, hunger and abandonment.
"The eyes of the dead were carefully closed, with no less
caution
should open the eyes of the living." Jean Cocteau
The number 113 is not random or arbitrary. Notes deaths between 2008 and 2009 that accounted for the NGO Project 7 between people living on the streets in the Federal Capital. A lethal combo provoked them: the poverty and structural poverty, the Buenos Aires government policy deficit in health, housing and food and of eviction compulsive combined with illness, addiction and very low temperatures in these days of the year. That figure comes alive when you reveal stories that explain better than stock speakers miserable beings who get up and lie in the open. Pagina 12 reported several cases relying on data from the organization that reported in Medical World which has a mobile support and control through the city and the testimonies of those still sleeping in parks or parks, and under bridges and highways.
Raul Puerta, alias "El Colo", was 32 years old-looking in appearance but looked much more. He had lost his entire family in an accident and the impact of that fact he broke. Law student, used to be animator of the ranches in Congress Plaza, where several banks occupied alternately sleeping. His companions in misfortune remember him as an educated man, respectful and bore the mark on the edge of a solidarity that pushes the street to survive. "If I had a single cigarette was able to break it in half to share," says Horacio Avila, President of Project 7, the organization that helps people living on the street, as happened to him between 2002 and 2007.
Colo stopped at a bar in Entre Rios Avenue, almost at the corner of Hipólito Yrigoyen. There, in exchange for their work, received some money and gave him food. One night he approached the group other homeless people sleeping in the doorway of the building of the former National Savings Postal Plaza in front of Congress. He sat next to them, but the body does not stop trembling. Someone decided to call the SAME from a pay phone and when the ambulance arrived, Puerta did not want to go. The answer to this inattention was negative. Avila is still very cool episode. With other homeless tried to take it to the Ramos Mejía hospital but found it impossible. Every time I tried to stand it up fell. Sought to give temporary solution to the problem lying in a bank and covered him with a blanket. The group was divided: some sought help from the hospital and others stayed with him.
When the first went and there was nothing to do. Colo body was rigid as a statue. Thus died after days of lucidity alternating with long nights of drunkenness. Alcohol, but alcohol fine, combined with a higher proportion of water is the drink of the inhabitants of the street. It's called "Cachun." And around a makeshift container where it serves many hours pass without a roof to protect themselves.
Benjamin Hugo Carranza, "the Gendarme," died when he was 58 years. Assigned to tell stories of frontier, of how life went in a detachment or smuggled, used squared to an imaginary flag and even saw him march in the vicinity of the Plaza on May 1, located between Hipólito Yrigoyen, Pasco, Alsina and Pichincha. Cared for at the first street cars, where there is a dependency of the AFIP, and did so well into the afternoon. Chaco wanted to return to his hometown, where he thought he could put a spin on his life.
This park holds one of the most organized ranchadas Buenos Aires. The Gendarme Hugo, that they all had their way by force of border, a day early, almost to the dawn of the morning, sat in an empty building and large windows on the street Alsina, near the Shopping Spinetto. A companion believing him asleep, tried to wake him to go to breakfast at Rincon and Chile, the meeting point each morning. I played and did not react, he pushed the man and sprawl on the floor. He was dead. The cold had finished him. But long before his life accumulating hits Buenos Aires bureaucracy. Again and again had dealt with a subsidy. Again and again ran into the same negative response as a man alone and have no family responsibilities.
Ukrainians Igor Kirilenko, according to data provided by the nurse Mary Barrios, of Medecins du Monde, died late last year. Ukrainian was begging in the area of \u200b\u200bParque Lezama. He had not chosen this place in vain. Brazil on the street is the Russian Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity, that seems taken from a postcard of St. Petersburg. Like other immigrants and sailors of Slavic origin born in the former Soviet republics, was stranded in Buenos Aires and the fumbled as he could.
Some did odd jobs and sold coffee and cubanitos on the street. When work was scarce, he sought help at a priest of the church of the five turquoise domes. For the first who entered the country after the fall of the USSR had a hard time coping with the crisis of 2001, the lack of opportunities and living on the street. Vodka intake or even Cachun also tested them cirrhosis or death caused by alcoholic coma.
Andrew, dry and one Ukrainian remember the homeless in the square on May 1. He had been baptized in this way because the name I had was very difficult to pronounce. Unlike Kirilenko was much younger. Tall and blond. He spoke pretty good Castilian. Work earnestly sought but never found one fixed, more or less enduring. Then he joined a Cuban-there are several on the street, and started as a taxi boy prostitution. Sitting on a park bench with a bottle of red wine in his hands, could be seen crying silent, longing perhaps his country and his family.
was three years old and met with 22, one day the ambulance took him SAME urgency with pneumonia. Their troubled peers would learn after he died the way to the Hospital Muñiz. AIDS, in addition to alcohol, had ravaged his body.
die in church
Jorge Enrique Alonso The priest gives Mass in the parish Heart of Mary which stands on the continuation of the path of the Avenida 9 de Julio to the south across the plaza Constitution. In late 2008, a man who lived on the street named Julius died within the church over breakfast. He was 50-something, your document in order and finished in morguera Federal Police who took him along with three corpses.
"It was a Sunday, I remember very well. There was the harsh winter now and this person was last on the table. He had finished breakfast, and while the people stood up, man as he slept, cross arms, not moving. Someone put his fingers on the jugular to pulse, but there was no heartbeat. I had lost control of his bowels and was pissed. We call the SAME came a doctor who put him and found some devices he was dead. He covered with a sheet and later came to fetch morguera. I do not remember more details from him, but what happened is registered in the parish book, "describes the father Alonso, who has made a complaint to the Ombudsman by the aggression of the UCEP (Control Unit depends Public Space Buenos Aires Ministry of Environment) to a homeless man who lives next to the temple, under the freeway.
The young man who was abandoned
Martin Franco died of tuberculosis. It's the same person you speak Ramón Antonio Rivero A Buenos Aires 31 years living on the street and the nurse Barrios, of Medecins du Monde. Both agree that died recently, he was tall and thin, and HIV carrier who used to walk Balvanera. The NGO maintains its history because they used to take care professionals.
"I lived in the block of Spinetto. There was a brother who works at a vegetable warehouse called Caputo. Martin had problems with family and jumped into neglect. Then she started drinking, her legs became infected and taken to a hospital, where he was treated not as it should. I went to watch one or two hours, more tired and did not return. He died in hospital Ramos Mejía, "says Rios, a dark-haired man of short stature, also carry HIV, that when the police harassed not sleep in the bus terminal because it does not want to retreat in the hostel. "I went for a guy who works there and mistreated people. In this place we got many complaints, including one by the case of a man who did sleep in a chair because you have scabies." Rivers
A figure of 113 deaths seems meager: "And yes, I think more people. This is evident in the shelters, homes, and the lack of medical care. They care more about making money than treat us like human beings. We are a mop ...". Besides Franco and Ukrainian Kirilenko, Doctors of the World reported on this year for Pedro Talavera, another person on the street who died in early 2009. The NGO founded in France and with offices in our country does not keep statistics on fatalities, but of consultations in the mobile unit, place of origin of homeless overnight areas and level of study of those affected, the more items (see apart).
Project 7 questions from a publication with its own figures: "Did you know that today in the city of Buenos Aires there are more than 15,000 people on the street? What about those 15,000 people are 4500 school children and 2000 are grandparents with a lifetime of work behind and are now abandoned on the street? "
The second question in a series of ten, which motivates this note: "Did you know that in the past two years in Buenos Aires killed 113 people on the street in the cold and different diseases?" The NGO has a very simple answer to this disturbing report: "The street is not a place to live," says one of his banderas.En the Federal Capital, under the most optimistic, crowd in the doorways of public buildings, stations train or subway, abandoned cars, between 8000 and 10,000 people. In places such as parks and open spaces are running the last time the Federal Police or the gang of the UCEP. Those who do survive end up in the morgue or NN in Chacarita. Explained: 85 percent have no health coverage, even state-and 30 percent are undocumented.
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