translated from Spanish: Vertical ghettos punish new Interior Minister Rodrigo Delgado

The appointment of the now ex-mayor of Central Station, Rodrigo Delgado (UDI), as the new Minister of the Interior, surprised many. Most of the comments were in a positive tone, especially because of his profile opposite the outgoing Victor Pérez, his choice in favor of The Apruebo, his closeness to the people and his ability to dialogue. “He’s got a street,” analysts add.
But Delgado has an open flank and is that, in his 12 years as chief building, the commune of Central Station became infamy for the buildings known as “vertical ghettos”, those symbols of overcrowding and poor urban planning.
This situation did not go unnoticed on social media, where they joked that, after Delgado’s arrival in La Moneda, one of his first tasks will be a complete remodeling of Palacio, which includes the construction of 24 new floors, in the pure style of the megamoles of Central Station. The memes abounded, saying palace would now be called “The Vertical Currency”.
Example of meme after Delgado’s arrival in La Moneda.
Far from being a humorous critique, Delgado’s vertical ghettos open a flank of controversy upon his arrival in La Moneda. The publicist Cristián Leporati, for example, tweeted that “Rodrigo Delgado as mayor exercised symbolic violence in Central Station, allowing the construction of hyper-densed towers that urbanally destroyed the commune (and its quality of life). That person can’t be an interior minister, we can’t be so bad.”
Patricio Herman, president of the “Defend the City” foundation, also commented on his arrival in the interior portfolio: “Rodrigo ‘Gueto’ Delgado new Minister of Interior and Real Estate Security”.
These comments were backed by the architect and director of Public Space and Equals, Sebastián Gray, who in addition to making retuit of the memes of La Moneda as a ghetto, commented: “If neglected, it will sell the land of La Moneda to a real estate company”, ironized.
Other users asked that the Office of the Office of the General Council do “something against Rodrigo Delgado. Aren’t Central Station mega-tormentors supposed to be illegal?”
Precisely, the regulatory body had a victory a few weeks ago against real estate, since the Supreme Court rejected an appeal of appeal brought by the real estate company Dalmatia against the invalidation of the building permit, by the Municipality of Central Station, for the construction of these buildings.

Original source in Spanish

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