And since 2007, the heart of the comuna is a branch library situated in a small community park.
It's called the Biblioteca Espana, and it was designed by a Colombian architect, Giancarlo Mazzanti at a cost of about $4 million.
It's made of black bricks and is in three parts: the library, an auditorium and a kind of community center. The latter two share a lobby.
The library has six floors. Adults, youth and children each have two floors, one devoted to books and one to public access computers.
When we got there there was this long line of youth waiting to use computers. I guess they need a lot more.
The architect of the Biblioteca Espana is quoted as saying, "We wanted to take people from this poor community into another world and change their reality." Sounds like something Andrew Carnegie might have said a century ago.
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