BARRIO NELSON MANDELA......CARTAGENA, LA HEROÍCA

POISON

Poverty & Displacement Gallery (click on any photo for a larger version) Millions of people have been forced from their homes in Colombia - a phenomenon known as forced displacement. Most of these people now live in poverty in shantytowns around Colombia's major cities with little chance of finding a job or being able to return to their previous lives. Over a million children are among the displaced Typical housing in a Colombian shantytown – this one is in Bogotá Hundreds of thousands of Afro-Colombian people have been forced from their lands Malnutrition is common among the displaced. A bowel of rice is the main daily meal for these children in the neighbourhood of Aguablanca in Cali Housing is also a huge problem and many displaced families, like thisfamily near Cali, live in appalling conditions This dirt road leads through the ‘Nelson Mandela’ displaced community in the city of Cartagena where around 45,000 people live Raw sewage runs through the ‘Nelson Mandela’ displaced community A displaced woman with two children in the doorway of their shack in the city of Cali Women washing clothes in ‘Ciudad Bolivar’ a displaced neighbourhood in Bogotá – over half of all displaced people are women Thousands of indigenous people have also been displaced, many end up begging in the streets of Bogotá Shacks near the town of Turbo in northern Colombia where people who were displaced five years ago still live A road leading into ‘Ciudad Bolivar’ in Bogotá, home to over a million people (click on any photo for a larger version) | close window |

Poison.... Crecen los casos de turismo sexual en el Valle del Cauca Caracol | Junio 13 de 2009

Las autoridades denunciaron la presencia de personas y organizaciones dedicadas al turismo sexual en menores de edad en la capital del Valle del Cauca. Niños y niñas con edades entre los 9 y los 15 años son motivados para realizar esta práctica con turistas nacionales y extranjeras, denunció el subcomandante de la Policía Metropolitana, coronel Fariel Pérez. Se conoció que muchos de estos menores son alquilados por adultos y padres de familia hasta por dos mil pesos a las redes dedicadas al turismo sexual, las cuales están siendo detectadas por los organismos de seguridad. Para ello las autoridades han redoblado los operativos en hoteles, sitios de recreación y terminales de transporte terrestre y aéreo.