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Author: Luz Amparo Sánchez Medina

Luz Amparo Sánchez Medina is an anthropologist and researcher on forced displacement in the city and the armed conflict in Colombia. She is a member of the research team working on the Right to the City and Territory at Corporación Región, an NGO in Medellín-Colombia.

Se trata de estructuras, no de ayuda – Asentamientos informales y la desigualdad de la pandemia en Medellín, Colombia

En Colombia, el 25 de marzo se instaló una cuarentena nacional debido a la pandemia de la Corona. Pocos días antes, varias organizaciones no gubernamentales y comunitarias ya habían publicado una declaratoria  con una alerta temprana a la alcaldía  de Medellín - la segunda ciudad más grande de Colombia, premiada varias veces por su innovadora política urbana. En ese declaratoria, pidieron que se prestara especial atención a las personas que vivían en asentamientos informales y zonas periféricas: Las desigualdades existentes y las diversas formas de discriminación se exacerban debido a la creciente precarización de la informalidad a través de las medidas preventivas actuales. Los residentes de los barrios marginales se ven privados de los modos de sustento que han generado de forma independiente. Las intersecciones de las opresiones exponen a esas personas a riesgos mortales. Se necesita urgentemente un ingreso básico y protección de la salud.

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It is About Structures, Not Aid – Informal Settlements and the Inequality of the Pandemic in Medellín, Colombia

In Colombia, a national quarantine due to the Corona pandemic was installed on March 25th. A few days earlier, several non-governmental and community-based organizations had already published an alert statement in the city of Medellín – the second largest city of Colombia, awarded multiple times for its innovative urban policy. In this statement, they called for special attention to people living in informal settlements and peripheral areas: Existing inequalities and various forms of discrimination are exacerbated by the increasing precarisation of informality through current preventive measures. Residents of marginalized neighbourhoods get deprived of livelihoods that they have built up independently. The intersections of oppressions expose those people to deadly risks. A basic income and health protection are urgently needed.

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