The… suicide houses found in Bolivia and the residents refuse to leave.
Hundreds of buildings located in edge of a steep earthen cliff on the outskirts of the city El Alto, in Bolivia, were named “suicide houses” due to the high risk of catastrophic landslide.
The “suicide homes” her Bolivia located in Avenida Panorámica and in La Cejaone of the busiest commercial areas in the city of El Alto, have attracted a lot of attention due to their precarious location, on the edge of an earthen cliff that has been deemed highly susceptible to landslides. In recent weeks, rains have wreaked havoc in its capital Bolivia and the surrounding area, further increasing the risk of landslides. But this does not seem to scare not at all the inhabitants of these housesas most of them refuse to move. These buildings are inhabited by local shamans, known as yatiriand merchants who don’t want to leave their place of business, even if it means one day falling to their… death.
“We are not going to leave this place, because this is our daily workplace,” one recently stated yatiri at Reuters. “But we will take care of the soil, especially the rainwater, we will channel it so that the water goes somewhere else.”
“The cliff in this valley is 90 degrees“, said Gabriel Pari, municipal secretary for water, sanitation, environmental management and risk; “That is exactly why we want them to leave this place, if they don’t want to leave we will have to use force.”
Built by bricks and covered with leaves corrugated ironready to go suicide houses of El Alto are very important to them yatiris and they would do anything to keep them. Some even suggested bidding on the Pachamamathe goddess revered by the natives of Andean.
The suicide homes of El Alto have been on the brink for some time now, but the intense rainfall and the environmental changes attributed to climate change have exacerbated the risk landslide.
