When the President Bathed in the Tunjuelito River
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This research gathers together a series of processes that I have been working and reflecting on for years about the basin of the Tunjuelito River, south of Bogotá, in the Bosa locality. The premise stems from my interest in knowing more about the environment where I spent my childhood; a story that I once heard about the Tunjuelito River when I was in school, in some way, sparked a different perspective than what I was used to. All that was known about the Tujuelito River before people started recording it in official documents in order to perform construction works in the city, with the purpose of supplying water to a growing population, is precarious, and those who witnessed its splendor left, being unable to pass down their stories, their voices lost to an oblivion that has been a political program at a local level and for the contemporary world. In Colombia, the main problem that affects the possibilities of one day achieving that project of an equitable nation is due to the current environmental crises, a consequence of abusive exploitative policies and a culture forged during decades of violence that has normalized death, hyper-individualism and that does not feel responsible for the state of its environment. The main objective is to talk about the Tunjuelito River as I remember it, to investigate what it could have been like before it became the landfill it is now, and to see, on a national scale,
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