The thematic park projected here by the Harbor Authority (reconverted urbanizing agent, real estate company or tool of speculation clearly) meant the starting of the electoral campaign of its president, Abel Caballero, in its race towards the viguesa mayorship. From 2006 July, a day yes and another one also, whole pages of the local press, paid with public money, publicitan to all horterada color this huge one.
There was once… a circus
Pasen, passes and occupies their seats! The function is going to begin! Now pay all its attention to the Central Track of the Fabulous Harbor Circus.
Does not lose the impressive performance of the Great Magician!
They already ignited the centers of proscenio and the famous artist leaves to scene. Applause and fanfarrias atronan the air.
In less than what he takes in saying abracadabra, the magician took off the black layer and began to wave it thus, of a side for another one: nothing this way, nothing over there, and…
Tachaannnn!
An Olympic swimming pool that appears by the right, a hotel of luxury with a center of congresses by the left and a submarine tunnel (to take a walk between fanecas, nécoras and chinchos) opens to our feet.
Impressive!
It already returns to wave
And all this for the 2010. Fast express. He will be all ready one and prepared before the works of saneamento of Ría finish. Sure, this is much more pretty and much more important. Being a good cableway, that needs a water purifier…
Please, they do not confuse, they maintain its attention in the Central Track. Young lady, has the kindness of not watching now for the filling of Bouzas. To see, those chavales that are indicating with the finger to the project of Massó. No, they are not distracted now…
Remember that we have to its disposition tons of propaganda in shining paper of attractive colors.
Hagannos case:
Abelandia
| LIGHT OF VIGO, 18/02/2007 Vanguardistas Torres, cableways and an artificial island, between the designs of new Puerto The proposals to transform the facade to the sea include swing bridges, hanging gardens, an ice palace and a skyscraper of 160 meters of height. Towers that evoke futurist monoliths and skyscrapers. Telesillas, monorails and cableways to cross the port area. Games of footbridges and swing bridges. Hanging gardens. Sport parks with loopings and an ice palace… |
| LIGHT OF VIGO, 27/07/2006 “It will be an emblematic work in the world” Horseman compared the regeneration projected in the Port with the performances made in Athens, Genoa, Barcelona, Los Angeles, Chicago or Cape Town. “There was in the history of |
He is enough already!
It is already hour to recover our habitual seriousness. And for that we propose the article that we reproduce next, builds of professor Méndez Ferrín and also published in the Light of Vigo the 29 of September of 2006.
The Harbor Autocracy
By X.L. MÉNDEZ FERRÍN| Everything is cooked with the maximum sigilo there, and the Authority communicates with the masses of the city by means of the most expensive advertising announcements that we paid the contributors. |
Before, not many years ago, it existed Work a called organism “Together of the Port” and this sovereign and all-powerful era in his territory.
In our great harbor cities (Corunna, Vigo) it showed to his exceptional nature and its independence of the municipality raising great walls and spectacular iron doors that separated the port of the civil populace. In these iron borders the power of the City council stopped and “Works of the Port” only rendered accounts, with a high degree of discretion, to God and the Ministry.
By that time, “Works of the Port” as its venerable name indicated, took care of the construction and maintenance of docks, wharves, docks, wharves, to the constructions dedicated to the services of the native traffic, to infrastructures of communication with the continent, to the park of cranes and diverse machinery, to the harbor stations of passengers and all those things, and maintained group of civil employees and dock workers of load and unloading of high professional competition.
Soon, “Works of the Port” disappeared to leave to passage to the being denominated “Harbor Authority” that, with the name change, did not lose anything of its absolute powers and absolute on the marine-terrestrial territory that is assigned to him. The moment is that at which the vast leasehold spaces administered by the Harbor Authority get to be object of desire of the real estate speculators and the retailers specialized in parasitar the public concessions.
Of the side of of the iron iron doors there are no discomforts there councilmen nor mayors whom they have to be persuaded (sometimes very expensive) nor to be started off that is organized neighboring scared of the public opinion nor and noisy in the plenary sessions. Inside the Harbor Authority there is no public who can constitute itself in assembly: is no entry.
Everything is cooked with the maximum sigilo there, and the Authority communicates with the masses of the city by means of the most expensive advertising announcements that we paid the contributors. In the case that I better know, the one of Vigo, the Harbor Authority gets to make fun of of the Law of Normalization and Gallego lets exist in the spaces that the great iron door demarcates. The iron iron doors of the Harbor Authority mark to a border between the normal political life and the pure authoritarianism. “I”, Caballero says to Abel when talking about to the Port of Vigo.
Soon the dream of the speculator is incarnated in the reality. Since in municipal territory plans, elections, norms, government and opposition exist, it presses and debates, the ideal of the speculator becomes joyful reality in the Port, where works can be done of personal character and without more proceeding than the assent of the Harbor Autocracy. The state organization that long ago took care of the Port like space of general and public interest, now becomes urbanizable ground manager and referee of multiple personal companies of lucrative character and without relation with the harbor activity.
As the sea is of all, the project stars is the interminable filling and ad libitum.
The boats, the fishing activity and the necessities of the marine commerce happen to be simple pretexts for the true function of the Port that is the ground provision and the speculation.
Now, the Harbor Autocracy focuses its aims, despotic although not illustrated, in the cession of infinite square meters to the individuals. Nonharbor manufacturing and mercantile facilities, offices like those of the Frank Zone, deposits of automobiles, now a water purifier, next towers acristaladas for commercial apartments, hotels, centers, thematic parks, restaurants, this are: the public property of the ports as the one of Vigo it is on the verge of volatilizing so as in front of our eyes and of being privatized (already it it is being) with serious damage added for natural environment of Ría.
The “plan of Uses of the Port of Vigo” of Abel Caballero is this and much more. In Corunna they go by the same line but following a trajectory different that it passes through the call Outer Port.
