Netflix series The Eternaluta It has been in its premiere for six days and it is already a global success. The adventures of Juan Salvo/Ricardo Darín in a Nevada and Apocalyptic Buenos Aires is one of the most viewed series in the world of this platform.
The six chapters of the first season are set in the northern zone on two sides of General Paz Avenue. The Eternaluta with his mask and his rifle on his shoulder travels all those areas. Passes through the council, the train of the Miter line that Vicente López and San Isidro and also General Paz crosses.
There is one of the first meet with the invading cascarudos, in a clear reference of the series to the battle of the General Paz that appears in the cartoon of Germán Oesterheld and Francisco Solano López.
At another time in the series, The Eternaluta You have to cross general peace to save your life and a group of people. There, they decide to do it for a pedestrian tunnel that was sealed with cement. What is the little known or forgotten story by many Buenos Aires.
In dialogue with Infobae, Fabio Márquez of the Instagram account @Paisogeantededicated to spreading Buenos Aires building, explains details of these mythical tunnels. They were built as pedestrian crossings under General Paz to connect the neighborhoods, when the slope was generated to raise the avenue in the early 1940s. Then the road node of the Saavedra bridge was extended and were elongated in its extension in the 1970s ″.
The steps under the avenue were talled by insecurity at some point between the late 90s and the beginning of the 2000. “There are closed by walls but visible with their rectangular frames.” The growth of poverty and people who live in street situation made those Long halls become their homes.
In another post, @paisionante tells that there is another similar step on the same avenue in the west. There connects Liniers with Ciudadela. And it was also closed.
June 8, 1937 The works that would be inaugurated 4 years later, on June 5, 1941 of the first version of General Paz Avenue. Between 1971 and 1973 with some changes, the avenue began its adaptation to the new concept of urban highway. It was the time for the expansion of pedestrian tunnels.
In 1996 the works began to make the avenue a highway. And in 2000 the last work that Turn the avenue on highway. From that year several expansion works were carried out that are located as the busiest highway in Argentina.
Sebastián Cerezo He was in charge of looking for the locations for the series. In an interview with Radio with Vos tells the story behind the pedestrian tunnel that the eternal used to save himself from the attack of the cascarudos.
“14 years ago they had found a giant marijuana plantation below the highway. We had to ask for a permission from the highway to let us open a gap. So we broke the tunnel, we put together a false wall, We filmed the scene and then seal again, ”says Cerezo.
The police case happened in August 2011. At that time, the tunnel was already upholstered. And the residents of the area saw smoke out for a small gap open on the wall of General Paz Avenue on the city of Buenos Aires.
Then, they called the firefighters who broke the wall to enter the old tunnel in disuse. There, they found some 35 marijuana plants fed by an irrigation and lighting system. That circuit had generated a fire and thus the neighbors alarmed and called the police.
According to official versions, it was a plantation of people who had managed to enter the tunnel at that time, lived there and had decided to grow marijuana for personal consumption.
The plants had different sizes and were maintained with an irrigation system and a series of lamps that are usually used for interior crops and low temperatures, a method known as agrolux.
The hypothesis is that someone had opened a hole to enter the tunnel and set up a whole home engineering for cultivation. Who did it, without a doubt, knew the place before they tapered it.
Juan except travels those Buenos Aires streets and the northern conurbano that appears totally snowy and in a apocalyptic key. There, in the same scenarios that cars and groups travel day to day from east to west on the boundary between the city of Buenos Aires and the province. There, where one of the mythical opened again Pedestrian tunnels that crossed General Paz from its entrails.
