Florecen casas en Cazucá

Abstract

The community of Altos de Cazucá for years has been behind a veil of prejudice. The media has called it a nest of problems, settlement or a wrongly called slum. Being an invasion zone abandoned by the State the only thing that commune four of Soacha represents for the rest is insecurity, poverty and helplessness, prejudices that directly affect the community because being something so repetitive creates a collective imagination that does not allow them to perceive the commune in a different way, generating a feeling of uprooting. During the consolidation of this cluster of neighborhoods, the people who arrived had to look for different ways to live with dignity, self-construction and coping with the place they were forced to live, the houses, the schools, the sewage and water supply system, the service of electricity, recreation areas, streets and paths, they were built by the community, generating different social dynamics that give it an identity and historical weight that goes beyond exaggerated prejudices. This research compiles the stories of the self-construction of Altos de Cazucá by its habitants through the years, how the community is perceived and the relationships that were generated living in such ridiculous conditions but which never prevented them from make that their houses would germinate, that their neighborhoods would take root and that Altos de Cazucá would flourish.