Landslides in Córdoba: the city collapses and the State only appears to regulate and collect

The model of "progressive city" promoted from Córdoba shows its true face: suffocating regulations, but zero real oversight where it matters.

Córdoba's capital is literally falling apart under the rubble of its own state neglect. Two collapses in one week reveal the collapse of the system in Córdoba's capital.

This past week: one worker dead and a boarding house evacuated due to risk of collapse.

On May 25, a worker died in Alta Córdoba after the roof of a warehouse under construction collapsed. The second was a boarding house eviction on Alvear 300, with more than ten people living in conditions of extreme precariousness and risk of collapse.

In both cases, serious structural deficiencies were revealed, but also alarming inaction on the part of municipal authorities, who are responsible for overseeing, authorizing, and ensuring building safety.

State present to collect municipal fees

In Córdoba, as in much of the country, the State is not absent: it's everywhere except where it should be. It regulates every square inch of private space, suffocates anyone who wants 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.

Córdoba's municipal government 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 is not a lack of resources: it's a matter of priorities. In Córdoba's State, the show always comes first; citizens' lives, last.

These tragedies are not 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.