{"id":316,"date":"2020-04-20T09:11:01","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T06:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uef.fi\/envirolatam\/?p=316"},"modified":"2020-04-20T09:11:24","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T06:11:24","slug":"when-urban-and-ecological-injustices-meet-pandemic-the-covid19-in-urbanized-colombia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uef.fi\/envirolatam\/2020\/04\/20\/when-urban-and-ecological-injustices-meet-pandemic-the-covid19-in-urbanized-colombia\/","title":{"rendered":"When urban and ecological injustices meet pandemic: The Covid19 in urbanized Colombia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Germ\u00e1n A. Quimbayo Ruiz<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Amidst the covid19 pandemic, in the busy Latin American metropolises like M\u00e9xico City, S\u00e3o Paulo, Santiago, Lima or Bogot\u00e1, the public has not been exempted to comment on social media about the pandemic\u2019s \u201cunintended\u201d effects and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/animals\/2020\/03\/coronavirus-pandemic-fake-animal-viral-social-media-posts\/?fbclid=IwAR3b7zuDbSUShbQ24S2HnIJJJWJWSRItGmVun0Hdw-k_iR-NWtRM0YoJbMA\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201creturn of nature<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d to cities, or the sudden improvement in<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2020\/apr\/11\/positively-alpine-disbelief-air-pollution-falls-lockdown-coronavirus\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">air quality<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> due to the forced halt caused by the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/03\/23\/world\/coronavirus-great-empty.html\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">general lockdown<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in urban centers. Yet, nature has always been there, especially in Bogot\u00e1, the capital of a \u201cmegadiverse\u201d country. According to the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbd.int\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Colombia is listed as one of the world&#8217;s \u201cmegadiverse\u201d countries, hosting close to 10% of the planet&#8217;s biodiversity, but this exceptional biodiversity context is mutually intertwined with a volatile socio-political setting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While I am writing this text, there are more than 3,100<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.minsalud.gov.co\/portada-covid-19.html\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">confirmed cases of covid19 in Colombia<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, almost 1,300 of them in Bogot\u00e1. The last week state forces deployed excessive repression against several populations in the poorest neighborhoods in the south of the District (in particular the area of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ciudad Bol\u00edvar<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">), who desperately rejected the local lockdown measures set since the last month, and went to the streets to protest and perform \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spanishdict.com\/translate\/cacerolazo\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">cacerolazos<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d due to the lack of humanitarian aid promised by the state amid the covid19 situation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The lockdown and quarantine measures are not an option for people who work in precarious jobs or make a living on a daily basis. It is common to hear people claiming that they are going to die first for hunger than for the coronavirus. Although in Bogot\u00e1<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acueducto.com.co\/wps\/portal\/EAB\/!ut\/p\/z0\/04_Sj9CPykssy0xPLMnMz0vMAfIjo8ziLS1dHA2NDIz83D0sjQ0cw4KMPB1DnA0MAo31C7IdFQH8tscR\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the coverage of drinking water supply<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is close to 100%, and the authorities have granted full access to the most vulnerable sectors of the population, this is not enough. Stay at home for these populations is not a safe option,<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/uniandes.edu.co\/es\/noticias\/gobierno-y-politica\/cuando-la-vivienda-no-logra-ser-un-refugio\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">because the housing conditions are precarious, full of resource shortcomings, and often the shelter is the center of domestic and gender-based violence<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. It became common to see in Bogot\u00e1 and several other Colombian cities and towns<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/thebogotapost.com\/colombias-trapped-informal-workers-raise-literal-red-flags-in-desperate-attempt-for-aid-during-country-wide-quarantine\/45760\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">red flags<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> hanging in places where vulnerable people live desperate claiming for aid. Acts of xenophobia towards vulnerable migrants from Venezuela are increasing. Many of these migrants are in tension for the reception of state aid with the rest of the marginalized people like homeless, street dwellers, or even transgender sex workers who also suffer from stigmatization and are often targets of police brutality.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_298\" style=\"width: 811px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-298\" class=\"size-full wp-image-298\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uef.fi\/envirolatam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/85\/2020\/04\/Foto-Camilo-Rozo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"801\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uef.fi\/envirolatam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/85\/2020\/04\/Foto-Camilo-Rozo.jpg 801w, https:\/\/blogs.uef.fi\/envirolatam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/85\/2020\/04\/Foto-Camilo-Rozo-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.uef.fi\/envirolatam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/85\/2020\/04\/Foto-Camilo-Rozo-684x1024.jpg 684w, https:\/\/blogs.uef.fi\/envirolatam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/85\/2020\/04\/Foto-Camilo-Rozo-768x1151.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 801px) 100vw, 801px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-298\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">20 red flags and rags (trapos rojos) hanging in windows in a building at Plaza de la Hoja, Bogot\u00e1, Colombia. April 2020. Photo courtesy: Camilo Rozo.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How all this dramatic scenario amidst the coronavirus pandemic is related to urban environmental injustices? Most of these populations in Bogot\u00e1 are the most exposed to the worst environmental injustices in the city-region, living in areas where the effective access of green public spaces is lacking; and particularly in areas like <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ciudad Bol\u00edvar<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the environmental conditions of neighborhoods and settlements are extremely impoverished due to the allocation of extractive activities for building materials or waste dumps and land-fills (the most extreme case is the metropolitan landfill \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/revistas.uniandes.edu.co\/doi\/full\/10.7440\/histcrit74.2019.06\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Do\u00f1a Juana<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d). Prior to the coronavirus emergency, several communities in urban Colombia were living already in a state of environmental emergency and have lived under conditions of restricted mobility and forced confinement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The state repression against vulnerable communities in Bogot\u00e1 happens when Mayor, Claudia L\u00f3pez, has been praised by some sectors of the public opinion as a national leader during the covid19 emergency, above of President Iv\u00e1n Duque. In fact, in Colombia, a sort of leadership has been taken by local and regional governments to tackle the covid19. L\u00f3pez even put the city under an obligatory quarantine drill last month, before the nationwide measures were enforced, besides some <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MisDerechosNoEstanEnCuarentena?src=hashtag_click\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">arguable measures<\/span> <\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">such as restricting outings by gender during the quarantine (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">pico y g\u00e9nero<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">). Despite measures enforced by the Mayor, the state capacity within a context of historic and deep inequality is not yet the fastest to cope with the current situation. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although the national government has reacted way better compared with countries such as Brazil or Chile, since the beginning the government has taken several bad decisions. Besides a \u201cTrumpian\u201d approach to favor privileged sectors of the national economy, among the decisions<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/colombiareports.com\/colombias-great-coronavirus-heist-part-2-government-sent-660000-to-ghost-accounts\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">there was a serious issue regarding an app for humanitarian aid that ended up deviating money to ghost bank accounts<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Likewise, some emergency measures have had to drawback in their enforcement such as<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanoticias.com\/a\/medicos-colombianos-piden-garantias-al-gobierno-en-medio-de-pandemia-coronavirus-covid19\/5371535.html\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">forcing all health-care personnel in the front lines to provide services without full guarantee to exercise their essential jobs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since the last fall, workers, students, environmentalists, women, feminist and LGBTQ movements, peasants, and Afro Colombians, were mobilizing in biggest protests the country has ever seen in more than 40 years against multiple injustices and accumulated grievances of a long political and armed conflict, systemic corruption, and the lack of the implementation of the 2016 peace agreement. However, the covid19 situation has put a harsh break on this springing of democratic uplifting. Moreover, during the pandemic, the genocide against social and environmental activists<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/23\/colombian-groups-exploiting-coronavirus-lockdown-to-kill-activists\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">continues<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and some measures taken by the covid19 emergency are facing<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/colombia-hopes-for-humanitarian-ceasefire-during-coronavirus-as-violence-resurges-132309\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the resurgence of state and criminal violence<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (often intertwined with drug trafficking and paramilitarism), reinforcing the paths of violence and impunity in both rural and urban settings. As scholars<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.castac.org\/2020\/04\/the-militarization-of-life-under-war-post-conflict-and-the-covid-19-crisis\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Diana Ojeda and Lina Pinto Garc\u00eda<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> recently pointed out, the current situation in Colombia is legitimizing the (para)militarization and warfare state of the everyday life in the name of hygienic and public health and contrary to promote a more solidarity path of democracy and social justice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unlike a common belief that the war and conflict have only been set in the countryside, urbanized areas, especially in marginalized places, have also been taking part in this warfare state even in very subtle ways. Although Bogot\u00e1 has great potential in urban nature reflected in a local system of protected areas, many of them have encountered<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177%2F2514848619887933\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">multiple institutional difficulties to guarantee a good state of conservation and enjoyment by citizens<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. One of the most vulnerable sectors of the population are homeless and street dwellers, who usually end up making spaces like creeks, hills and wetlands their home in the absence of housing. However, instead of being cared for by the state, they are usually stigmatized and harassed in the name of keeping things \u201cin order\u201d. And when the aid from the state comes, it is not enough.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many of the urban environmental injustices in the context of the pandemic in cities like Bogot\u00e1 are worsening and it is not very clear what collateral effects will be unleashed. This is a huge challenge to rethinking spatial and urban planning practices in Latin America and elsewhere.\u00a0 Environmental conflicts are not the result of a cause-consequence effect, but the product of a long process of environmental injustices, which in the framework of a pandemic are just reinforced.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bio: Germ\u00e1n A. Quimbayo Ruiz is a researcher and Ph.D. candidate in environmental policy from the Department of Geographical and Historical Studies at the University of Eastern Finland, Finland. His research interests are focused on the political ecology of urbanization and urban environmental history.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Germ\u00e1n A. Quimbayo Ruiz Amidst the covid19 pandemic, in the busy Latin American metropolises like M\u00e9xico City, S\u00e3o Paulo, Santiago, Lima or Bogot\u00e1, the public has not been exempted to comment on social media about the pandemic\u2019s \u201cunintended\u201d effects and \u201creturn of nature\u201d to cities, or the sudden improvement in air quality due to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":233,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[109,70,22,19,115,67,112,106],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-special-issue-covid19","tag-bogota","tag-colombia","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid19","tag-environmental-injustices","tag-socio-ecological-inequalities","tag-spatial-planning","tag-urban-nature"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>When urban and ecological injustices meet pandemic: The Covid19 in urbanized Colombia - ESDLA blog &amp; research<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uef.fi\/envirolatam\/2020\/04\/20\/when-urban-and-ecological-injustices-meet-pandemic-the-covid19-in-urbanized-colombia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"When urban and ecological injustices meet pandemic: The Covid19 in urbanized Colombia - ESDLA blog &amp; research\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Germ\u00e1n A. 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