Tierra de nadie (UCV)

The Tierra de nadie[1] (No-man's land) is the name of one of the green spaces inside the campus of the University City of Caracas, the campus of the Central University of Venezuela. It is a public space. It is officially called Plaza Jorge Rodríguez.[2]

Tierra de Nadie

UNESCO World Heritage Site
Location	University City of Caracas, Venezuela
Criteria	Cultural: (i), (iv)
Reference	986
Inscription	2000 (24th session)
Coordinates	10°29′25.4″N 66°53′25.1″W
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Location and history

It takes its name because it is an area that belongs to none of the faculties that surround it, serving as a shared space for the whole university community; it is one of the most recognized meeting locations within the university.[3] The spaces that border the Tierra de nadie include the Plaza del Rectorado, the Aula Magna, the Central library, the canteen of the university, and diverse faculty buildings. The area designated the Tierra de nadie also extends to a small forest to the north and northeast of the square.[1] An old magazine of UCV's School of Social Communication was also named Tierra de nadie.[4]

Violent crime

Though intended as a peaceful green space and in the center of a university campus, there have been several violent crimes in the Tierra de Nadie, as they have grown across the university as a whole,[5] and more numbers of drug users than students hanging around.[3] In 2015, a young man was killed in the plaza; he wasn't a student of UCV.[6] In August 2017, a journalist was out jogging when he was stabbed in the neck and face, he was found dead in the Tierra de nadie but had left a blood trail from a nearby academic building; it is believed he was trying to get from where he was stabbed to the hospital on the other side of the Central Complex. The murder may have been the result of resisting mugging.[7] Muggings in the Tierra de nadie were quite common, with many reports leading to the arrest of a common thief in 2019.[8]

Artworks

In this area there are many monuments, plants and paths, including murals of the Rectory Plaza by Oswaldo Vigas that face the space,[9] and the statues Maternidad by Baltasar Lobo and Monumento a los caídos de la generación del 28 by Ernest Maragall.[10]

There is also a dedication plaque to honor Jorge Rodríguez Sr., a politician murdered by the government in 1976, which has been vandalised on several occasions, sometimes by the university's management and rector Cecilia García Arocha, as a response to the controversial man, his politics, and his son, Jorge Rodríguez.[11]

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  Mateo Manaure mural on the rear of the Sala de Conciertos
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  Maternidad
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  Monumento a los caídos de la generación del 28
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  Un elemento - personaje triple

See also

• Aula Magna (Central University of Venezuela)
• Carlos Raúl Villanueva

References

1. Abrahán Carvajal (2013). "Áreas verdes de la UCV son un oasis para el caraqueño" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 7 January 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2017. El chichero que se instala justo al lado de la torre del Reloj o la escultura de bronce en homenaje a los caídos de la generación de 1928, son parte del ambiente que conforma a la Tierra de Nadie.
2. "Dañaron placa de Jorge Rodríguez padre en la UCV". Aporrea (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-08-18.
3. Bracho, Raúl (25 November 2011). "La autonomía de la UCV para permitir el consumo y venta de drogas en la "casa que vence las sombras"". Aporrea (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 October 2017. “La tierra de nadie” es un espacio de jardines de la Universidad Central de Venezuela, que si otrora era el lugar predilecto para las sillas de extensión y el repaso de las asignaturas antes de los exámenes, hoy es la tierra donde se ha permitido el refugio de decenas de ciudadanos con adicción a las drogas para consumir libremente sus tóxicos, ante la indiferencia de las autoridades.
4. "Tierra de Nadie". Tierra de Nadie (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-08-18.
5. Editor (2019-07-19). "La gloriosa UCV convertida en tierra de nadie: el hampa y los asaltos están a la orden del día". Voz de América (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-08-18.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
6. "Asesinan a joven en Tierra de nadie en la UCV". Globovision. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
7. "Periodista de El Nuevo País asesinado habiá salido a trotar". cronica.uno. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
8. "Capturaron a delincuente que robaba en "Tierra de Nadie" en la UCV". Analitica.com (in Spanish). 2019-02-06. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
9. Rossana (9 February 2016). "Las maravillas de la UCV". Revista Venezolana (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 October 2017. El propio Oswaldo Vigas afirmó: "Este mural tiene un brillo espectacular porque fue realizado con mosaicos artesanales vítreos y se halla detrás de un muro de la Plaza del Rectorado frente a Tierra de Nadie".
10. "Cuerpo de Guías Aula-Magna. Sala de Conciertos UCV: Síntesis de Artes del Centro Directivo-Cultural de la UCV". Cuerpo de Guías Aula-Magna. Sala de Conciertos UCV. 2015-02-28. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
11. "Circulo Bolivariano Fabricio Ojeda: Fue mancillada placa en Honor al combatiente revolucionario Jorge Rodriguez (padre) en la UCV". Circulo Bolivariano Fabricio Ojeda. 2010-10-13. Retrieved 2019-08-18.

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