State present to collect municipal fees
In Córdoba, as in much of the country, the State isn't absent: it's everywhere except where it should be. It regulates every square inch of private space, suffocates those who want to build with fees, permits, and obstacles, but when it comes to ensuring safe infrastructure, its absence is glaring. Oversight is lax, inspections are selective, and political accountability is nonexistent.
The Municipality of Córdoba's capital spends fortunes on advertising campaigns, ideological propaganda, and signage, while urban structures crumble.
The city marketed as "modern, inclusive, and sustainable" can't guarantee that a person sleeps under a safe roof. However: there are bike lanes, festivals, inclusive language campaigns, and promises of a "smart city."
The problem isn't a lack of resources: it's a matter of priorities. In Córdoba's State, the show always comes first; citizens' lives, last.
These tragedies aren't due to a lack of State, as the progressive narrative often repeats. They are, in fact, the result of its useless hypertrophy: an apparatus that interferes in everything productive, while leaving people's lives unprotected.
Córdoba doesn't need more "state presence"; it needs fewer bureaucrats and more individual responsibility, fewer useless controls and more enforcement of the law.
Meanwhile, Córdoba's politicians remain in a perpetual campaign, the city is falling apart, and not figuratively. The narrative of modern Córdoba collapsed like the warehouse in Alta Córdoba, and what remains under the rubble is common sense.
