“Ciudad Bolívar: Mosaico de una realidad” FILM SCREENING Followed by a discussion with filmmaker David García.

“The World Bank estimates that Bogota has “over 1400 informal settlements occupying 24% of its area and housing 22% of its population.” The development of informal settlements in the periphery of Bogota directly results from the influx of rural immigrants. Many Colombian come to the city to escape rural violence. Too poor to afford housing rents, they have to find alternative solutions, such as building their own houses. The percentage of people with unsatisfied basic needs in Ciudad Bolivar has decreased since 1993, but it still represented more that a quarter of residents in 2001. Violence too is high: Bolivar: assaults were the first cause of death for people aged between 15 and 44 and the second for people aged between 45 and 59″. (http://www.bogotalab.com/articles/bogota_edge.html)

Friday, December 2, 6:30 pm, 2011

Room 5409, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Talk will be conducted in Spanish and Spanish-English consecutive interpretation will be provided.

Soft drinks will be served.

By colombianstudiesgroup

Our interdisciplinary dialogue group welcomes students, faculty members and others to the enlightenment of circumstances related to the armed conflict, fair trade and human rights, as well as general information about Colombia and its relation to the United States.

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