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Tierra de nadie (Central University of Venezuela)

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Coordinates: 10°29′25.4″N 66°53′25.1″W / 10.490389°N 66.890306°W / 10.490389; -66.890306
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Tierra de Nadie
UNESCO World Heritage Site
LocationUniversity City of Caracas, Venezuela
CriteriaCultural: (i), (iv)
Reference986
Inscription2000 (24th Session)
Coordinates10°29′25.4″N 66°53′25.1″W / 10.490389°N 66.890306°W / 10.490389; -66.890306
Tierra de nadie (Central University of Venezuela) is located in UCV Conjunto Central
Tierra de nadie (Central University of Venezuela)
Location of Tierra de nadie in UCV Conjunto Central
Tierra de nadie (Central University of Venezuela) is located in Caracas
Tierra de nadie (Central University of Venezuela)
Tierra de nadie (Central University of Venezuela) (Caracas)
Tierra de nadie (Central University of Venezuela) is located in Venezuela
Tierra de nadie (Central University of Venezuela)
Tierra de nadie (Central University of Venezuela) (Venezuela)

Tierra de nadie[1] (No man's land) is the unofficial name of a public green space officially called Plaza Jorge Rodríguez in the University City of Caracas, the campus of the Central University of Venezuela.

Location and history

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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 places within the university.[citation needed] 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 several faculty buildings. The area designated the Tierra de nadie also extends to a small wooded area 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.[2]

Violent crime

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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.[3] In 2015, a young man who was not a UCV student was killed in the plaza.[4] In August 2017, a journalist out jogging 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.[5] Muggings in the Tierra de nadie were quite common, with many reports leading to the arrest of a common thief in 2019.[6]

Artworks

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In this area there are many monuments, plants and paths, including murals of the Rectory Plaza by Oswaldo Vigas that face the space,[7] and the statues Maternidad by Baltasar Lobo and Monumento a los caídos de la generación del 28 by Ernest Maragall.[8]

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.[9]

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

See also

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tierra de Nadie (UCV).

References

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  1. ^ a b Abrahán Carvajal (7 January 2013). "Áreas verdes de la UCV son un oasis para el caraqueño". Tuzona Lebertador (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 28 March 2013. 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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. ^ "Tierra de Nadie". Tierra de Nadie (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2019-08-18.
  3. ^ 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. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  4. ^ "Asesinan a joven en Tierra de nadie en la UCV". Globovision. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
  5. ^ "Periodista de El Nuevo País asesinado habiá salido a trotar". cronica.uno. August 2017. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
  6. ^ "Capturaron a delincuente que robaba en "Tierra de Nadie" en la UCV". Analitica.com (in Spanish). 2019-02-06. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
  7. ^ 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".
  8. ^ "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.
  9. ^ "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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