Quito is in mourning

After the fire that happened in a rock concert the last Saturday, the major of Quito declared three days of mourning in the city. The fire consumes the place where 300 people were attending to a gothic rock concert. 14 of them have passed away and some more are still in the hospital. Most of them were young.

In the middle of this sorrow there is big discussion about the role of the municipality and fire department concerning the control for public shows. Also urban culture movements are talking about the importance of the tolerance for the different cultural expressions, as an answer of the reason why lots of musical bands (normally rock, punk and hip hop) have to be presented in unsafe places.

I’m coming back to the blog after some weeks of travel and tons of work. It’s sad to come back with bad news…