El barrio Carlos Gardel, conocido por su alta tasa de criminalidad y estigmatización social, vuelve a ser noticia tras un incidente de robo a periodistas. A pesar de los esfuerzos de urbanización y la presencia constante de la gendarmería, la inseguridad persiste. Los residentes luchan contra el desempleo y la pobreza, mientras que las autoridades locales buscan soluciones para controlar el delito.
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00:00The week after journalists were robbed and the camera was turned on,
00:04and they ended up in Carlos Gardel, we went to see what this dangerously stigmatized neighborhood was all about,
00:11and at the same time very dangerous.
00:12Why this duality?
00:13Well, because if you live in Villa Carlos Gardel, which is one of the areas used as a warehouse, not the only one,
00:20if you go to ask for a job and say that you live in Carlos Gardel, they won't give it to you.
00:23Fifteen thousand people live there, the census, the last census had marked 9,000, 10,000,
00:28but in the last few months, more people started to move forward and there were more people.
00:33Look at what we find in Villa Carlos Gardel.
00:38In the last week, the neighborhood of Carlos Gardel was in the news again due to extreme situations of insecurity.
00:45Journalists who covered robberies near the neighborhood of Carlos Gardel were attacked by minors,
00:51the cameras were taken and they were turned on.
00:54The images showed us entering the neighborhood of Carlos Gardel.
00:58A neighborhood located in the Moronense town of El Palomar,
01:02which ends on February 3rd and is located between the streets of Marconi, Carlos Gardel, Pedriel Avenue and the back of Hospital Posada.
01:16It's like everywhere, everywhere there is crime, there is drugs, there are good people, there are bad people,
01:22like everywhere there are working people who get up at 5 in the morning and come back at 10 at night.
01:27I think that's it, that we are marginalized by the neighborhood of Carlos Gardel.
01:32The neighborhood has always been a spicy place, as they say from the outside,
01:37it got a little worse later, it improved because there is an urbanization.
01:42For me, the moments of the neighborhood have a lot to do with the moments that we live at the national level.
01:48We are in a moment of crisis, that we are one of the first sectors that suffers from the economic crisis,
01:55the crisis in terms of labor, and it is the first thing that is cut.
01:59Obviously, we do not agree and we suffer from it that way, I think.
02:06In the year 1968, during the government of Onganía, the eradication of marginalized neighborhoods was discussed in the city of Buenos Aires.
02:13And all the people were brought here, to the Moron area, to the west,
02:17so that they can live in what was going to be built at the time, which were the monoblocks of Villa Sarmiento.
02:24But finally, that construction was interrupted and the movements of the people began, the occupations within the neighborhood.
02:35Later, the neighborhood began to complicate itself due to the inequalities and the permanent crises that Argentina had.
02:42It is part of the radiography of the Carlos Gardel neighborhood.
02:46It is a great community, a great family, well, that many times lives like a very structural poverty of many years.
02:56What are you seeing with the youth?
02:59There is like a breakdown of life projects, there is a breakdown, there is an implosion in the families,
03:05where they cannot accompany him, where they are managing to survive every day.
03:12And that makes the children drift.
03:15About 15 years ago, all these problems began, right?
03:21The boys were stolen and there was more, how can I tell you, abandonment of the parents towards the children.
03:28For example, we here, it is not that we solve, but we provide space.
03:32So these spaces help the boys to be looked at, accompanied, they can eat, share,
03:39but also recover that, well, as good as it exists.
03:46It is a fight against the current, what is being done within the neighborhood with Jody O'Bera.
03:52And what an advantage, because for each of the actors that you have just shown, I say actors as social referents, right?
03:57The father, the lady, how much of the other is there, right? To compete with him, in quotes, against.
04:04And what a paradox that also compensated the historical route of this neighborhood,
04:07because it was thought at the time, in the dictatorship of Onganí, back in 68,
04:12as to be a neighborhood to eradicate Villas, and it ended up becoming one of the most spicy in the suburb.
04:19Yes, unfortunately.
04:21Look at the second part, interesting, pay attention to Mike's testimony.
04:26He is a person who tries to get the boys out of the street and take them to sports,
04:30but look at what happened to him in his own story here in the Carros Gardel.
04:35Well, let's go through the heart of the Carros Gardel neighborhood.
04:38Look, these are the old monoblocks.
04:42Then there was an important urbanization work in the neighborhood that somehow changed their face.
04:49Is there a difference between living in this way with the neighborhood with asphalt, urbanized,
04:55that if it were not urbanized?
04:57Yes, totally.
04:58For example, an ambulance comes in here now.
05:00An ambulance comes in, cars can come in.
05:04Before, all this was mud.
05:08One of the diners and snack bars here in the Carros Gardel.
05:13Well, what do you cook here now?
05:16Oh, look, you already started.
05:18It helps me a lot in the municipality.
05:20To know what is being seen back to the hungry.
05:23They come to take the food and I ask them, young boy,
05:27we don't have a job, ma'am.
05:28And I ask them, there is no job, ma'am.
05:31He says, what do you want us to do?
05:32Did you hear that a week ago some journalists were making a note?
05:37Some guys came, stole a camera, left it on and entered the neighborhood.
05:41What happened when you found out?
05:43My soul fell to the floor.
05:46We are in the nest of the eagles.
05:49We are a club that works with teenagers.
05:53And we have a baseball sport and also a gym for them.
05:57Where are you from?
05:58From the United States, but I came here 23 years ago.
06:01And I'm working every year with 30 to 40 guys.
06:06But also in 2017 I lost a couple of ex-players.
06:11So I thought I needed to do something more about baseball.
06:14So I created this gym to work with more neighborhood teenagers.
06:20Diego Oliveira is one of the people you were telling me about.
06:23He stopped playing, went back to the streets and ended up losing his life in a shooting, stealing.
06:27When there are no goals, there is no vision in his life,
06:31they always go to the streets to look for something to hold on to, to be part of a group.
06:40Between 1995 and 2003, the economic crisis and the increase in unemployment
06:45caused violence and illegal practices to grow in the neighborhood.
06:50Today, 20 years of that urbanization are being fulfilled.
06:54And yet, the trend seems to change again at the rate of inequalities.
07:00What's going on with the issue of drug use here in the neighborhood?
07:04It has dropped a lot here.
07:06The truth is that the gendarmerie has calmed down a lot here in the neighborhood.
07:13The police forces point out that the escape routes
07:17that the criminals in the area have favor illegal activity.
07:22Villa Carlos Gardel, Fuerte Apache and Villa Pineral
07:26are part of an area in Buenos Aires known as the West Bermuda Triangle
07:31due to the insecurity and violence in the area.
07:34We are suffering from the national government
07:40and a lack of funding for many policies that prevent crime.
07:44In times of crisis, the situation worsens.
07:48It worsens because it seems to me that the first places that decide to cut a government
07:53like the one that governs us today at the national level are the popular sectors.
07:58What they call an expense for us is an investment
08:02and that is reflected today in the insecurity.
08:10At the beginning of last week, the robbery of journalists
08:13ended with cameras lit by the criminals in the Carlos Gardel where we were just.
08:20It was us and at the same time another event was happening,
08:25possibly the most serious of the last month,
08:28at least in the West Bermuda Triangle,
08:31which is the crime of the Gendarmerie Guillermo López, 55 years old,
08:35who has one day to leave his job and dedicate himself to living life with some tranquility.
08:40He was killed before, they didn't let him.
08:41And where did the car stop?
08:44In Fuerte Apache, the neighborhood known as the Army of the Andes.
08:47The Pineral Villa is another problem in the neighborhood.
08:51The whole area is triangulated
08:53and to this we must also add all those who come to steal
08:58from the area of General Rodríguez and La Matanza.
09:01Therefore, the people who live here
09:03are completely desperate and there does not seem to be a reaction
09:07from the municipal authorities,
09:09except for the last one that happened on Friday,
09:12where they are exchanging information,
09:14the security sectors of the municipality of Tres de Febrero and Morón,
09:18to see how they solve this crime.
09:21In the case of the Carlos Gardel, the Gendarmerie is inside,
09:24but of course, look at the number of entrances there are
09:27and always some are searched and others also end up using the place
09:32as a shelter, even if they do not live there.
09:34Yes, because even if we talk about a villa, it is not so.
09:38At some point a part of the settlement lived together,
09:40because we were telling you, it is a neighborhood that was born
09:43to eradicate villas and settlements in other places.
09:47This is the paradoxical thing.
09:49A transitional housing core is made until the buildings are finished.
09:54Now, when the buildings are finished,
09:56which today they do with their characteristic facades,
09:59there is a mixed process in which some intrude those units,
10:04those departments, and others do not finish moving.
10:08So, for many years, the part of the building,
10:13of the buildings, live with that transitional housing core.
10:17And that begins to acquire a villa format.
10:20And also, notice how particular,
10:21we just saw a character that we would need more,
10:25this American man who lived in Milwaukee,
10:28who came to the other side of the world to dedicate himself
10:31to teach baseball, not even a sport of long tradition in our country.
10:35Well, he is evangelical and he communicated with many
10:38referents of the evangelical church,
10:40who together with some parish have a lot of presence in the neighborhood.
10:44A lot, I know because I have visited it.
10:47But it is an unequal fight.
10:48Of course, because they start trying to play.
10:50Here is a field that is behind the hospital Posadas.
10:54This big here is the hospital Posadas.
10:56So, it is a very difficult territory to control
10:59because it also has many entrances and exits.
11:02Yes.
11:02So, that's why those who commit crimes get in here quickly.
11:06Then they get in between the corridors of the buildings.
11:10And it is a topography that if you are not from the place, it is complicated.
11:13Regarding those who stole the camera, our colleagues,
11:16Savo and Jorge, there are no detainees.
11:19Regarding those who killed the gendarme, neither.
11:22But at least they are identified and we understand that they are about to fall.
11:28It's about, look at this, here we have the genealogical tree
11:31of these alleged criminals.
11:34It is a genealogical tree with a front.
11:36Yes, in this case, in reality, what we are marking,
11:38or what is being marked in the investigation,
11:40is the entire family framework, because it is precisely from the family
11:45where you can get to the whereabouts.
11:47For example, Godoy Sergio Nicolás, 28 years old.
11:50He has his father and his mother.
11:52He has three brothers and social networks.
11:54But notice what particularity this man has.
11:56He has a job.
11:58He has a registered job.
12:00He works.
12:02And yet, at the same time, he goes out to steal.
12:04And in this case, he went out to kill.
12:06Another one, come on.
12:08We have three identified, of five at least,
12:10who participated in the murder of Guillermo Pérez.
12:12Sorry, Guillermo López.
12:14Guillermo Alfredo López.
12:16Guillermo Alfredo López.
12:18The gendarme who was about to move
12:20to look for a better life in a better neighborhood
12:22of which he came.
12:24And he found him to death.
12:26Dilan Martín Goytia, 18 years old.
12:28He has two brothers.
12:30He has his father. He has his mother.
12:32There are phones that are also being searched.
12:34Look, he has the phone with Mercado Pago
12:36registered in the name of,
12:38we understand that it is,
12:40in the name of Dilan Martín.
12:42That is, 18 years old.
12:4418 years old, nothing more.
12:46And let me correct something, because I regret what I said myself.
12:48He did not control death, the gendarme.
12:50No, no.
12:52It was by work and grace of these
12:54burros and HDP.
12:56He did not control death.
12:58And he was shot in the back.
13:00He was shot in the back seven times.
13:02He could not even take out his gun to defend himself.
13:04And he ended up dead in the house he had just bought
13:06and was renovating.
13:08Brandan Thiago Ezequiel, 20 years old.
13:10In this case, the father is deceased.
13:12He has three brothers.
13:14Also, great activity on social networks.
13:16This is February 3rd, but in reality
13:18it is the army neighborhood of Los Andes
13:20where they were supposedly hiding.
13:22But after the raids,
13:24for now, they were not found.
13:26Jorge.
13:28Young people are hungry for the future
13:30and abundance of drugs and alcohol.
13:32They talked to him about his right
13:34during these 20 years and not about his obligations.
13:36They told him that merit was not important,
13:38that you can pass grades without reading or writing,
13:40that you can finish high school
13:42anyway.
13:44The military service, the golimba,
13:46was important for the youth of the province.
13:48That is the result.
13:50They sell more drugs than bread.