UN: ´Colombia`s urban rich poor gap worsening´

[Judi Lynn]

UN: ´Colombia`s urban rich poor gap worsening´
Published On: Wed, Oct 9th, 2013
News Review | By Kevin Howlett

Colombia`s cities are Latin America`s most unequal, according the United Nations.

The UN claim Medellin is the city with the largest gap between the rich and poor, and that despite government claims to the contrary, the situation is worsening.

A report on urban equality in Latin America whose results were revealed yesterday, shows that inequality in Colombia`s urban centres grew by 15% between 1990 and 2010. Worse still, inequality is growing faster in Colombia than in any other of the 18 Latin American countries studied by the UN.

To preview the report`s official launch, in an interview with the newspaper El Espectador, the report`s director Eduardo Lopez Moreno claimed, ”Colombia is the only Latin American country where inequality is growing in all of its cities”.

More:
http://www.colombia-politics.com/urban-inequality-un/

[Judi Lynn]

1. Thought for the day, found in this article:

“Rich people in Colombia mostly make their money from monopolies in protected sectors that are created and shielded by the government”

[dchill]

2. They want to be just like US!

[Judi Lynn]

3. Say, who do they think they are? n/t