Buenos Aires: Wasteland

Sequeira, Jessica

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dc.creator	Sequeira, Jessica
dc.date	2015
dc.date.accessioned	2016-03-03T16:20:35Z
dc.date.available	2016-03-03T16:20:35Z
dc.identifier.citation	Sequeira, Jessica. 2015. Buenos Aires: Wasteland. Revista Harvard Review of Latin America, winter 2015, 14(2):70-72.	es_ES
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10469/8094
dc.description	Walking down avenida Juan de Garay last week, I passed a giant black trash bag that had ballooned and burst. Orange peels, burst tomatoes, candy wrappers, cigarette butts, Coca Cola bottles, torn newspapers and used condoms had spilled over the sidewalk and mixed with mud from the recent rains, so that pedestrians had to skip over the trash or veer into the street to avoid it. At the time it struck me as oddly beautiful, like some kind of symbol—as in most urban spaces, the distinction between private and public life verges on nonexistent here, and the insides of the city were on display in all their putrefying glory. Recycling has not traditionally figured high on the political agenda in Buenos Aires, but that is changing. Under city government head Mauricio Macri, a new Ministry of Environment and Public Space was created last year, and several recycling plants are now being constructed with accelerated completion times. Macri will be a contender in the 2015 presidential election, but political exigency alone doesn’t explain the rush; those working for the ministry are genuinely concerned with improving the city they live in. Buenos Aires’ relationship with garbage and its new focus on recycling speak to mutually beneficial links between political allegiance and social improvement which, as with so much here, are more complicated than they first appear.	es_ES
dc.format	p. 70-72	es_ES
dc.language	eng	es_ES
dc.publisher	Cambridge. MA, Estados Unidos : Harvard University.	es_ES
dc.subject	DESECHOS	es_ES
dc.subject	CIUDADES	es_ES
dc.subject	ADMINISTRACIÓN DE DESPERDICIOS	es_ES
dc.subject	ZONA URBANA	es_ES
dc.subject	BUENOS AIRES (ARGENTINA)	es_ES
dc.subject	RECICLAJE	es_ES
dc.title	Buenos Aires: Wasteland	es_ES
dc.type	article	es_ES
dc.tipo.spa	Artículo	es_ES