Unequality

Thanks to Robert and Julia, today I can demonstrate you better then ever what Argentina is about: Unequality. I do not simply live in a poor country, but I do surely live in a enormously unequal country.

No better way to demonstrate that than looking closely to the picture and talking about a "villa" (pronounce "visha"). Villa, that is how they call the poorest colonies in Argentina, the slums. They contain a wild and narrow settlement of hundreds of huts with no or bad infrastructure, a lack of clean water, no paved streets, no public institutions like schools etc.

Not seldom that richness and poverty lives side by side, separated by a street, a wall or, like here, by the railways. What you see on the picture is one of the most well known villas of Central Buenos Aires, and behind the skyline of posh Palermo. About 2-3 millions live in the estimated 450 villas of Greater Buenos Aires.

There is no way to understand these realities. Whether it is the unequality here, within Argentina, or between the world´s north and south. Therefore, when you now get all the advertisements for christmas donations: Do not hesitate! Surely a lot is necessary to overcome this unequality. A donation could be one of the steps.