Life in the Sewers of Colombia
Posted by Tony on June 1st, 2012Over the last several decades, small pockets of people have begun taking up residence on the fringes of society.
Almost three generations of ‘mole people’ live beneath the city of New York. A floating island of lashed together debris is home
to a small village of people in Mexico. In Vegas, individuals and even entire families have started living in the aqueducts and waterways criss-crossing the neon desert oasis.
While most of the fringe populations have made a choice to move into these environment because of poverty and drug addiction, for
almost 30 years the sewers below Bogota, Colombia have been a hellish sanctuary of sorts for these same types of people. In Colombia,
death squads are sent out to perform ‘social cleansing’ of people deemed ‘undesirables’ by the wealthier classes.
Denizens of the Colombian sewer system have been subjected to being burned alive, opened fire on and generally harassed and beaten.
Vice’s Thomas Morton takes you into the dark, horrific and life-threatening conditions that people endure beneath the city of Bogota.
[CNN WORLD]
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