Chile: Tsunami-ravaged village cannot be reconstructed

Boyeruca-Chile

The 2010's earthquake , of 8.8 degrees on the Richter scale and the subsequent tsunami that left millions of victims in a stretch of 600 kilometers of extension, destroyed 80 percent of the houses in Boyeruca which is a coastal town in Vichuquén, to the South of Santiago, Chile, on the shores of the Pacific Ocean. Its 300 inhabitants lived always extraction of marine products.




The challenge of the reconstruction of the fishing village of Boyeruca, destroyed by the tsunami, was raised as an example of ecological and sustainable reconstruction; but red tape and disorganization have been locked the project and have been kept in suspense to the population that is very vulnerable.

According to witnesses, the sea "left three times". The first caused no major damage, but destroyed everything in its path in the second.

The damage of the earthquake, motive to a group of social organizations, businesses and environmentalists and religious movements, that coordinated by the Institute of ecology policy (IEP), to initiate a campaign for the sustainable reconstruction of the village.



The project aimed to build a "ecopoblado" with renewable energy for local productive development for which counted with the help of numerous organizations not only in Chile, but from abroad; but the bureaucracy of national and municipal authorities has caused that today people live worse than before.