2023-06-21 08:00:00
The relocated families that inhabit Lot 34 of the plateau in Neuquén endured the 40 degrees of summer without mains water and this fall temperatures below zero, without gas or nearby distribution of bottles.
Solidarity in the face of deficiencies is what arose from the community organization and that of the churches in this area of the new ejido of the city, in which More than 1,000 families live that were previously in the “Casimiro takeover”, current district 6, where today the streets of the lots with service for professionals or members of cooperatives or mutuals that were organized with the municipality are opened.
The relocated and their families they pay monthly for the land at 2,500 pesoseven before the relocation, which was in August of last year.
Some have been paying a year ago when the last occupants of Casimiro and Autovía Norte left, others from before, when they agreed to leave the occupation.
The payment is made virtually, to a CBU that the municipality granted them, to which they must inform by mail when they pay the fee.
“We have to get through the 40 degrees of heat that we had in the summer and without water: they released it after we cut the Highway”, the new Route 22, recalled some of the relocated from the extoma Casimiro.
They expect better conditions and demand the presence of the State.
And if it does not arrive, they organize to attract attention (they look for the audiovisual media or block the route) and get the water they were promised or a police post or a health room or the arrival of the garrafero truck, among the demands that are claiming.
“Here they threw us and they forgot about us, the only ones that come in with help are the churches,” they invoked.
There are 14 blocks of land that have electricity and now also water, a service that has been provided for 2 months, they said.
They are all awarded land through the Municipal_Institute for Urbanism and Habitat (IMUH), which even issued official certificates to several families for the same lot, as they described and complained to the city’s Ombudsman’s Office.
The main streets of lot 34 are Rice, Yerba Mate and Sugar Cane.
“Now we are fighting over the jugs and firewood. And the most important thing is to have security,” said Carlos Candia, one of the neighbors on block 5 of subdivision 34.
He explained that at night shots are heard and last week, there was a person injured.
“You cannot leave the lot alone, because there are robberies at night and during the day. Even the bicycles are stolen from the boys, there are many cases of insecurity, ”she complained.
Jaqueline has lived in block 6 since October. She explained that since many houses are still not made of material (wood or nylon and cardboard) “the bullets go inside, and that is the fear, that they will hit a boy.” , said.
“We asked for security and they brought us police officers to carry out operations, who took out the motorcycles. We want a police post for security, ”he insisted.
Several women demanded the arrival of Social Action agents. With the rain, all the warm clothes and blankets inside the huts got wet.
“The ambulance does not arrive, in the health room (of Nueva Esperanza) they attend until 4 and they give few shifts, you practically have to be dying to get them to attend you,” they detailed.
There are no nearby schools and the one in Nueva Esperanza does not have places for the children of the neighborhood. “The boys are not in school, there is no space,” some mothers assured.
Francisco Baeza is 35 years old, he moved a year ago but his 3-month-old baby cannot live in Lot 34. He has papers on the land where he was relocated, but he melancholy evoked the time in which he lived -with the same hardships – in the shot Casimiro Gómez. “Everything was more organized there,” he recalled.
“We were here for two months without light or water, we got water two months ago, but the problem is the smell that comes from the dump when there is wind, which is always,” he explained.
He added that with the nauseating smell and the dirt the baby gets sick and there is nowhere to go in an emergency.
“The only privilege we have here is the bus._The women take the jugs up to the_Cole and go to Novella and Racedo, where the jug truck arrives, and they have to return with luck if they succeeded,” explained_David Obando, another of the residents of the neighborhood that is demanding security and light in the places of the neighborhood where stops were set.
In El Choconcito (a settlement at the other end of Nueva Esperanza) the carafe arrives (which distributes carafes to people who receive assistance in gas vouchers) but it is several kilometers from the place and mobility must be obtained, they indicated.
Dayana Badilla has been taking Casimiro since it started. She practically lived in the place for two years, because where she rented she couldn’t pay more when the rents rose to values that exceeded the family budget. She currently pays more than 7,000 pesos in electricity bills and 2,500 for the lot to the IMUH.
“Here the State is absent, we had to cut the route to have water, we don’t have a detachment and you can’t even get a shift in the health room,” he said.
He regretted having left the takeover in Casimiro, because “here you can bleed to death, we are isolated and there are no people from Acción Social where you can get a mattress and blankets, the lot cannot be left alone due to insecurity,” he said.
More than 1,000 families moved to Lot 34 in the city of Neuquén (Photo Matías Subat)
Yaqueline added that “as in every neighborhood, there are good and bad people, the issue is that we don’t have a detachment nearby,” she insisted.
The women indicated that up to block 10 they had all the services, but those relocated further north_“are hanging” even with the diagram made by the Municipal Institute.
“We pay bills of 6 and 7 thousand pesos for light and we only have a refrigerator and the TV, we heat ourselves with wood because if we don’t we freeze. There are people who paid up to 10,000 this month, they say it’s for lighting,” they said.
The wind blows hard on the plateau and when it happens, apart from losing some flying materials, it is unsafe.
“We take shelter inside, because with the wind you can’t stay and you can get hurt; with the wind the other day, some plates blew away and we lost; They promised us nylons but it never came, and then it rained and our clothes and padding got wet, with this cold,” Ruth complained.
More than 1,000 families live in Lot 34
Official information from the Municipal Institute of Urbanism and Habitat indicates that in lot 34, 420 plots were delivered in August with services in a first stage with water and electricity.
In the second transfer, 520 lots were delivered and a third stage of 250 is scheduled for August, after agreements with organizations of remiseros, the union of home collectors and some cooperatives.
With the expansion of the ejido, it is planned to carry gas and work on sewers for 2,000 plots of land after lot 34.
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