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Argentina: The story of the Bolivian anti-paco shoemaker in Villa 31
    #15544634 - 12/20/11 10:48 AM (12 years, 4 months ago)

http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1433934-el-zapatero-que-es-el-rey-en-la-lucha-contra-el-paco



"Shoe King of Kings," announces the sign of uneven letters hanging on the house 16, in the block 10 of one of the neighborhoods of the town 31. There lives the family of Jorge Gonzalez, a Bolivian shoemaker settled in Argentina in 1973 and who survived the persecution of the worst dictatorship that the country suffered. In the last years, when he began this crusade to rescue young people from the drug, pursues the "dictatorship of the narcos," already shot two times your home.

Glosses over these facts, as to make it clear that they will not stop, even if I walk in police custody. "I saved her from dying and I do not cower to continue working for young people and children who are dying of paco," he says as soon as they turn red light camera at the heart of the 31.

Jorge is 58 years old but looks about ten more. Walk slow, quiet. It is rare that crosses someone who does not salute. He has many years in the village as it moves through the corridors of memory known hyper: jump well, crosses wobbly planks, bend and on. We arrived at his home, invited to meet him. What would be the hall of a conventional home is a cobbler shop. Disorder has a typical workplace, on desks, cabinets and even on the floor stacked leather cuts, canvas and fabrics, shoe molds, half-shoes, some ready to walk out. He points to a machine that used to hit and that is the only help he received from the Government.

Then appears his wife, Betty, who is accompanying her husband in the rescuing of young addicts. The story involves them both. There Jorge: "We started out of desperation. Two of our five children began using paco. Vanished at all hours of the morning looking for drugs." It was during those first few nights of intense search for the suburbs began to meet other parents who went through the same thing. So George decided to found the "Network of mothers and relatives of victims of the drug." Since then, the village shops in the chapel of the neighborhood in hospitals there are signs that invite you to join the network of family victims drugs.


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Beyond the initial rescue boys accompany inmates, for detoxification Jorge believes that teaching a skill is an essential part of therapy. "They need to feel useful, to know they can make a living for themselves," he reasons, who endorsed this business as a child, back in Bolivia. So the kids he shares with his expertise, his expertise in composure of shoes, his specialty in creating custom shoes. "I am a Rockefeller out of money," he jokes.

Over there, on the shop 2 meters by 2 meters pass youth in the difficult path of "get out" as he says, in a favorable context for nothing. Speech and pass behind him children with their parents or alone, and also some young people who roam looking for a corner to stay. George greets, smiles. Seems to know everyone. Is excited to talk about this sort of army of shoemakers against paco. Nothing calls for government help, "but it is very unwise," with a correction clarifies that tender. "It would need to lend us a place to meet," he says.

At the end of the meeting, just before joining back to the entrance of the village, when we talked about his desire to ever return to Bolivia, Jorge releases his dream: "More than to Bolivia, I would go to Cuba." Far from imagining sunbathing on the shores of the Caribbean, quickly adds. "Here are the top toxicologists. It is also lacking in Argentina, good specialists." For him, not having all medically necessary is a form of discrimination.

HOW TO HELP

If you want to help the "Network of mothers and relatives of victims of the drug," to contact redmadresyfamiliares@gmail.com or cel 15 39 50 71 84 .


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