Cecilia Blondet Villa El Salvador

Cecilia Blondet “Villa el Salvador” (pp. 289-292)
As I was Reading this text, I felt like I was transported to the times this all happened. I could see myself suffering what this people had to dealwith but I was very moved as well, by the determination this people had to call a place for them home.
Starting with the government first reaction, there were no help initiative to be found, and tothink the national authorities exist to protect and serve us and not the other way. I kind of made me think about why people from some provinces of our country take their justice by their own hands andmeans.
The way families from far away were inspired by the same dream of the first squatters was amazing; it really was something to fight for.
These issues were supposed to be treated calmly bythe president Velasco, but some families took advantage of getting government housing lot making the initial group a lot bigger and more difficult to control. This group managed to take over some ofthe most exclusives residential zones: Las casuarinas, entering by the Jesuits high school La inmaculada, when this happened, the rich communities felt threatened (obviously) by the squatters andstarted thinking about how their homes would be invaded by the angry cholos.
A night when the police forces had the order to evict all of the families a riot was unleashed and a young man, EdilbertoRamos was killed. This provoked the rage of the squatters and the kept of police hostages was imminent. After they were stripped, and forced to kiss the cross they started crying and in my opinion, inthat moment the squatters realized they were cholos as well, and they were only carrying out orders.
When religious like Luis Bambaren started to get involved no one would have thought he would be inthe squatter’s side, reason why his arrest was ordered a little later.
To end this conflict Cardinal Juan Lazanduri met with the president and talked about the causes of this community problem and...