This post was originally published on the author's personal blog, Globalizado. For BBC Mundo's newly settled correspondent in Bogota, Colombia, the rigid socioeconomic classification the government applies to housing in the city has come as an unwelcome surprise. In a recent article, Arturo Wallace detailed how homes and apartments that use basic utilities such as electricity, gas, and water are subject to a municipal ranking system that is perversely exploited by the local population to discriminate amongst themselves.
Un reciente artículo escrito por un sorprendido corresponsal de la BBC en Bogotá, cuenta su experiencia con los estratos socioeconómicos que usa el gobierno para clasificar las residencias receptoras de servicios públicos, pero que también sirven de referencia de la manera como los colombianos se ven entre ellos, o, seamos sinceros, de discriminarse.