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YouTuber Joaco Santos highlighted the wide streets and the good condition of the irrigation ditches in the Santa Teresita neighborhood in Las Heras.
“We are a united neighborhood against everything that comes, We don’t let them steal in the neighborhood“Older people are respected, here we take care of the neighbors,” says one of the young people interviewed by Joaco. And this same testimony reveals that confrontations occur there almost every day with people who come from other neighborhoods and especially with the Police.
“The war is with the police“, confirms one of them, although he admits that in his neighborhood “you have everything, you have the piper, you have the drug addict and you also have rats,” implying that sometimes deadly fights also occur between neighbors.
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The Huracán Las Heras bar, present at the Santa Teresita
The Passion for Hurricane Las Herasthe football club from that department that is classified as having “the largest fan base” in Mendoza, was also captured in the YouTuber’s video.
And when the YouTuber and Buenos Aires communicator states during the visit that the Huracán bar has a reputation for being spicy, the group that accompanies him on the tour does not hesitate. show their revolvers“Look how we are, we are active,” they repeat almost in unison. Meanwhile, one of them says: “Here we are not at 100, here we are at 420.”
Joaco went to Santa Teresita accompanied by part of the Huracán fans, who assured him that “90% of the people in the neighborhood work; they are honest, good people and that is why they have us” to protect them.
The neighbors who provided testimony for the video, and who consider themselves the “guardians” of the neighborhood, mostly appear with their hooded facesAnd they point out that the general good condition of the place occurs “after 20 years”, before “we were the worst slum in Mendoza.”
The Santa Teresita neighborhood, considered one of the most dangerous in Greater Mendoza, has a long history crossed by years in which Not even the garbage truck enteredAnd, as those interviewed stated in this video, that reality has changed: “We are the ones who clean and maintain the neighborhood, now the services come in, we have made a lot of progress.”
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“One less kid on the corner, one more kid on the playground”
One of those interviewed by the youtuber is football teacher in the neighborhood’s sports area, which at night was very busy with children and young people playing ball, and which is attended daily by hundreds of boys and girls. In this context, the “profe” declared before the cameras:
We have a phrase that we love to spread and it is that ‘one less kid on the corner, one more kid on the playground’.
And he comments that neighbors from other nearby neighborhoods such as El Plumerillo Norte or Álvarez Condarco “come here and we get together.” play a game of football or eat a barbecue.”
“I instill in the kids that they should study, they don’t have to hang out in the street; I show you the gun because I’m looking out for you, but not for them,” says Joaco Santos, the teacher at the Santa Teresita sports ground. And he points out that we ask the kids who go to play sports at the municipal sports center for their education. school notebook so that they can enter the football school, which is not our responsibility but we do it anyway because we encourage them to be someone else in life.”
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Neighbors in the area said that around 300 children and young people play football on the Santa Teresita sports ground.
To UNO NewspaperJoaco Santos said that in Santa Teresita, unlike Campo Pappa, “I saw a much more active neighborhoodwith a playground where dozens of children play soccer, I felt more comfortable filming since many people accompanied me and wanted to show their reality.”
He added that “even though some of them were carrying weapons, I didn’t feel unsafe or tense, and I think I was able to show a reality that few know.” And he discovered why they call him “lasherindio” who lives in the northern department of Las Heras. “We are different from the rest of Mendoza, we are more quarrelsome, more Indian, poorer… more humble,” they declare.
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The youtuber showed the hero of the Santa Teresita neighborhood
At one point during the tour, those accompanying Joaco Santos said they would like their children to grow up in the Santa Teresita neighborhood “because it has evolved, if the neighborhood continues to improve of course I want my children to stay here; some of us have up to 3 jobs to make a living and we get up at 6 in the morning to go to work.”
The YouTuber’s visit also conveyed that the streets of “Santa” are almost empty during the day and The movement occurs more at nightprecisely because people leave very early and return almost at night from their work.
And among the neighbors, one is singled out as the “hero” of the neighborhood. “Everyone wants to be like him, he plays in the first division of Huracán, he is a source of pride for us, an example to follow,” says one of the young people when he sees someone walking through the streets. Matías Dielia professional footballer who plays for Globo and lives in Santa Teresita.
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“Effort and sacrifice” are needed to achieve dreams, according to Huracán Las Heras footballer and “Santa” resident, Matías Dieli.
“A lot of things happened, they’ve always been there since I started fighting,” Dieli says about her neighbors in the neighborhood. And she concludes: “It’s always difficult to get there, but It’s all effort and sacrifice“. Later, her mother will appear in the video, excited, recounting that “I have raised my 7 children alone here in the neighborhood, Boli (named after Matías Dieli) like the others, I always accompanied them and encouraged them in their dreams, we must not leave them alone.”
Hard stories of resilience, walls of houses marked with holes left by bullets in the shootings that happen from time to time there, memories of unjust young deathsmotorcycle stunts; everything was exposed in “Mendoza ATR-Barrio Santa Teresita”, the latest installment of the youtuber Joaco Santos in his visit to the province to get into the darkest areas and show other realities, just as he does here and in different parts of the country and the world.
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