From PAC to university in only 20 minutes

PAC is abbreviation of Pedro Aguirre Cerda, this is a "comuna" located at south of Santiago Centro. Here I live since I was born with my family.

My house is near of Panamerican Highway. Here I don’t have friends, although when I was a little girl played with all my neighbor… Now, we have converted in old and nerds people.

Neighborhood is very quiet all time, in the night is like a ghost village. Only you can listen some truck in the road. Public transport isn’t good in the morning, buses are full…because I decided use a bicycle. When I come to the university in bus the distance is 40 minutes and in bicycle only 20, in addition it is healthy and relaxes me.

From my house to the university had 10 kilometres, by every minute I advance 500 meters and he delayed the half of the time that I me delay in bus, but te great problema is that motorist don’t respect cyclist and .the accidents happen every day. Besides ciclovías are scanty and badly done.

PS: Pedro Aguirre Cerda was a President of Republic since 1938 until 1941. He died because was sick of tuberculosis before he finished his presidential period. People call him “El Presidente de los pobres” and his phrase more popular is “Gobernar es Educar.”

Photo: Ochagavía Hospital, tipical symbol of PAC, near my house

Video Talk 1

"The battle for hearts and minds"

In eves to World Cup 2014, the pacification in Rio's favela already began, but now the goberment of Dilma Rousseff have a new strategy that is not violence, for present. "The battle for hearts and minds" consider to clear drug gangs from 12 shanty towns in the Lins favela complex delivers security, street cleaners and satellite TV.  

Far from the weapon, these new tactics seek to influence the inhabitants of the favelas, it is a less violent measure but that will establish itself in the unconscious level of the persons. 

Claudio Costa, the police spokesman said he was satisfied with the way things had gone, "It's a success," he said. "It was quiet today. This operation today will improve the confidence in the UPP.". Although of that today dead persons did not register, one officer was killed and two injured in a gunfight during the "softening up" preparations the previous week. 

But the distrust of the settlers towards " Batalhão de Operações Policiais Especiais " continues because due to excessive violence that they have exercised. Last week, 10 UPP officers were charged with the torture and killing of Amarildo de Souza, a resident of Rocinha, Rio's biggest favela. In addition, in June BOPE killed nine residents, including seven suspected drug traffickers, after an officer was murdered at the Maré complex, forcing the authorities to delay the planned pacification of that vast community. 

Origin: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/07/2014-world-cup-rio-favela-pacification

"Foro por la Defensa de la Quebrada de la Plata" a site of scientific interest and principal green lung of West Santiago.

Tomorrow, Tuesday, October 1rd, 13.30 hours in classroom n°2 in ICEI will be realized "Foro por la Defensa de la Quebrada de la Plata", a site of scientific interest and principal green lung of West Santiago.

Can watch event in facebook
https://www.facebook.com/events/625128840871785/

Quebrada de la Plata is in  Fundo Rinconada or Experimental Station Germán Greve Silva, of property of Universidad de Chile and administered by Facultad de Ciencias Agronómicas. This place was donated by family's President in 1933.

Is a site destined, principally, to scientific studies, where, the State, across his different lines of financing to the investigation, it destines funds to make concrete the above mentioned studies. In turn, the sector is inserted in the Sitio Prioritario de Conservación El Roble N°2, assigned by Chile in the Cumbre de la Tierra (Rio ' 92) and ratified in 1994; in addition, it is considered to be one of the Areas of Ecological Preservation according to the Plan Regulador de Santiago (MINVU, 2010), aspects that emphasize his high ecological value. Together with the previous thing, the sector possesses a high historical value, since these places used as refuge the Ejército Realista in his defeat in Batalla de Maipú in 1818 and where it is said popularly, they hid his exchequers and objects of value that give origin to his name.

Presently, la Quebrada is being controlled of completely illegal form by different mining companies that extract, principally, oxide of copper, which derives in a serious ecological - social conflict in a sector that in addition supplies of water the inhabitants of the west sector of the Capital. It is necessary to indicate that the above mentioned companies to the date, do not possess any type of Declaration or Evaluation of Environmental Impact, Plan of Managing or any instrument demanded by the current legislation for the effects of his tasks, which was translated in diverse denunciations come from the citizenship and corroborated by public organisms of taxation as CONAF, which stated in situ part of the destruction of the flora of the Quebrada.

Human, cats and utilities

For a long time human beings and cats coexist, during 9500 years, Felis silvestris catus accompanies us. Recent studies indicate a direct origin of the domestic current cats with the wild cats of the Middle East, knocking down the idea of that the wild african cat, Felis silvestris lybica, is his more immediate ancestor.

Depend of contex cats have been loved or hated. In the Ancient Egypt were venerated because they were considered and estimated by his sweetness, his grace and his sloth, but the cat is especially a protective animal, if it weren't for they presence, Egyptians might not have protected their silos, vital resource for this civilization, from the rates.

In the Medieval Times they were burned in the bonfire, besides that they were used to medical porpuses. With their bodys persons were doing ointments and medicines, even with their excrements were used frequently the preparation of recipes to diminish the fall of the hair or to treat the fever or the epilepsy, even when in the periods of hunger or of site one was eating the meat of cats.

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Tipical presentation:

My name is Loreto Contreras, I live in Santiago of Chile since I was 2 years old. Actually I studying journalism, I'm dealing my 5° years. Lately I don't have a lot of time because I'm doing too much activities, but I like every thing that I do.

I decided study journalism because I like read and write, but since to study my capacity to do this is every time more limited ):

Before I played football, but now I have a lesion in leg, specifically in the right thigh. Now I have to go to kinesiologist.

I don’t have serious problems, I think that I’m happy.

brief story about cats

1 cat
2 cats
3 cats
they live playing all time