[Bah-SMV-Vallekas] [Bah-smv-general] OT: The Dump site/ discarica/ basurero en Ciudad de Guatemala: the real crisis

[nicola nicola]

  HOLA!
OS REENVÍO UN EMAIL QUE HEMOS ESCRITO A RAÍZ DE ESTA EXPERIENCIA TAN
ALUCINANTE!
AYUDA A RELATIVIZAR BASTANTE LO DE AQUÍ!
MUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Dear friends,
   How are you?

This summer we had the opportunity to have a trip to Guatemala , Belize and
Mexico , a really interesting experience!

But I am not writing you because of the Mayan archaeological sites, the
Caribbean sea or the incredible jungle. During our trip we had the
opportunity also to know another reality that we will like to share with
you.

Our last day in Guatemala City, we went around and ended up at the town
cemetery from where we had one of the most terrible views ever: just at the
foot of the hill where the cemetery is located, right in the city center,
it lies now the main Guatemala city dump site.

Apart of the horrible ecological damage (We’ve never seen a darker and more
polluted water) the saddest thing is that ten thousands people are
scavenging there daily for 14 hours to look for in the garbage something
which can be resold.

We could see their “houses” and tents down there, in the middle of the
garbage… really too much for us!!!!!!

When we left we were so sad, but also somehow grateful to have had the
opportunity to live that experience.
Too often in Europe we are now focusing on ourselves, on our economical
crisis, on our belly button: let’s put things on the right perspective,
let’s remember always we are still a small extra-super-lucky minority on
this planet and a big percentage of our travel mates are still lacking very
basic services such as food, water, health, education…

This situation really brings you back to the global reality!

As far as the images are worth more than hundreds of words, please take a
look to these short videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rG1yeif-nQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRW1jlLACxk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PhYOTA8mSg&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzJEuN-iO4g
http://vimeo.com/2544811

and some Pictures
http://stevebeckwith.com/CityDump/citydump2.html

We also attach some picture we took.

I hope we can meet soon!
Ciao ciao
Nicola
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