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Post by scumbuster on Sept 7, 2016 12:19:06 GMT -5
Armed with rocks and sticks, Bogota’s homeless spearheaded mayor riots early Wednesday morning after weeks of accumulating accusations of human rights violations against them.
The homeless mob attacked the Hospital and Bicentennial stations of the Transmilenio mass transit bus system, leaving an estimated $9 million of damage, the Bogota government told El Espectador.
Vehicles in the area were reportedly also attacked.
“I was traveling down Caracas Avenue when a stone hit my windshield” before seeing the mob, a taxi driver told newspaper El Espectador.
Bogota Mayor Enrique Peñalosa promised to reduce the crime rates in the city when he took office in January, and many of his efforts have fallen hard on the homeless population of Bogota.
The riot comes roughly three months after police swept into the Bronx, Bogota’s most dangerous neighborhood, and attempted to clear out the homeless population.
Immediately, however, merchants in the area began to complain of the increase in the homeless population near their businesses.
With nowhere else to go, many of the estimated 1,600 of homeless people and drug addicts simply spread to nearby neighborhoods, despite some efforts to route them to rehabilitation services.
Later, reports emerged that hundreds of Bogota street dwellers, allegedly forcibly displaced by authorities, appeared in other cities, in a failed attempt to cover up the policy disaster of clearing the Bronx.
More recently, the capital’s Human Rights Coordinator, Carmen Teresa Castañeda, received several reports that poisoned food has been handed out in Bogota.
These reports are still under investigation.
The Capital District declared a public health emergency this week, and is attempting to double the budget to care for this population to roughly $60 million.
Meanwhile, the aftermath of Peñalosa’s attempt to show results in his fight against crime have backfired and made him the most unpopular mayor of Colombia with an approval rating of only 25%.
colombiareports.com/homeless-population-riots-bogota/
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2016 12:41:05 GMT -5
One might ask the Aussies how they handled their homeless rabbit population--
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Post by dandl93 on Sept 7, 2016 12:42:59 GMT -5
Bad reporting, $60 million and only 1600 homeless and addicts that is $37,500 per person if it is true some serious corruption.
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Post by billyb on Sept 7, 2016 14:20:52 GMT -5
The homeless should register as FARC and get free, housing, medical, uni, plus 1.8 million COP a month. I might register myself.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2016 14:28:51 GMT -5
Bad reporting, $60 million and only 1600 homeless and addicts that is $37,500 per person if it is true some serious corruption. I noticed that too, but I had just read where Santos said that Hillary Clinton is more aligned with Colombia- so I just assumed it was a new wealth redistribution program.
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Post by jafo19d on Sept 7, 2016 15:57:29 GMT -5
The homeless should register as FARC and get free, housing, medical, uni, plus 1.8 million COP a month. I might register myself. You won the Internet today
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Post by búfalo on Sept 7, 2016 19:23:17 GMT -5
Maybe 9 million pesos?
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Post by gallito on Sept 7, 2016 23:30:10 GMT -5
I want mine liquidated in U$
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2016 13:23:50 GMT -5
Bad reporting, $60 million and only 1600 homeless and addicts that is $37,500 per person if it is true some serious corruption. $60 millions is the total Bogota DC District budget allocated to health for people benefiting SISBEN. Hundreds of thousands of people. 1,600 is the number of homeless people out of the Bronx. The article is mixing apples with oranges.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2016 13:29:20 GMT -5
The homeless should register as FARC and get free, housing, medical, uni, plus 1.8 million COP a month. I might register myself. They be parked in veredas. It will look like more refugee camps than anything. So yes, free "housing". Medical care, yes. Bush medicine. They already have this kind of medical care within the FARC anyway. COP 1.8 millions, pure propaganda. They'll receive a one time 2 million package and like 600mil pesos monthly until their case is sentenced by the special court. You should definitely register.
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Post by billyb on Sept 8, 2016 15:50:05 GMT -5
Still sounds better than being homeless and law abiding. Will definitely register as soon as I come up with suitable nom de guerre.
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