Baby P. And Sharon Shoesmith's Case

This news talks about Ofsted failing in disclose some relevant information about baby P’s death and apologizing about that. This documents consist on drafts produced by the joint area review (jar) last November, after the trial of those who caused baby P’s death. The main failure is that Shoesmith’s team asked for these documents several times, and all of them they were told that said documents were not relevant for the case. The issue is that first the judge was told the documents were “batted off”, then that they never existed and now that they do, so he’s demanding to have them for the case.

This are really shocking news. Nowadays the abuse of children is a great cause of mortality, and having cases like this, where people just do not want to consider evidence (any of it) as important, makes me really sad. That is why we should try to humanize their parents and make good families; however they are, they have to become good parents for the future, and so cases like Baby P will not be repeated. There’s also a necessary change in the people “in charge”. They should not leave their investigations aside for other stuff and consider something as not necessary for the good ending of a trial.

The Pope's Monument

There has been a harsh debate about the intention of positioning a statue of the pope Juan Pablo II on Bellavista, in front of the law faculty of University of Chile. Sol Letelier, Recoleta’s mayor, denies to move the location of the statue and will fight until she can for it to be positioned in front of the faculty. The students only fight for maintaining the architectural purity of the sector, national patrimony.

There’re different criteria used for the students posture, among them are:
1. The catholic church has always sought humility. They’re now fighting for building a 400 million pesos statue.

2. In the Exodus (in the Bible) is clearly said that there will be no adoring of idols. What people wants to do with this is to start a cult to Juan Pablo II’s figure.

Personally I’m against the statue, because it would be giving private people rights farther away than they are able to perform. It would be a clear abuse of rights using a public place for lucrative means. Wherever the statue is, I’d be opposite to the project though. I would prefer to have that money used in repairing some of the already existing monuments in the area. Maybe some of it could be destined to repairing the damaged faculty of law, because the university has also left it behind on its budget.

Transantiago: before and after?

This has allowed certain pollution levels in Santiago to be reduced. However, there’re certain structural problems in this system that don’t allow a full service in the capital. There is an obvious lack of buses delivering service, and sometimes the situation turns chaotic. It has various advantages though, because the new ways in this system allow the buses to move easily, plus, innovations in the metro have permitted the system carrying more people, extending its reach and because of this, having a biggest service area. In the beginning, my experience was a little bit complicated because I come from the X region. However, with a little bit of time I got used to it and now it’s part of my daily life.

A Country that i like to visit

If i ever wanted to travel somewhere some day, that place would be Europe. It was really hard to think on a specific place, but I think I would prefer to travel to Germany and France. Both countries have a rich history, with many cultural places. For example, there’re places like the Eiffel tower in Paris, the Louvre museum, and all the cathedrals. In Germany we can find all their beautiful cities, which, even though their tardy architectural styles are excellent artworks. There’s also the awesome German cuisine, such as their sausages and chocolates that nobody that visits the place can miss. If I had the chance, I would like to go study to one of these places; they have very good universities, and all of them have departments related to something I’d like to study.