Format: Paperback
Pages: 360
ISBN: 9780822963110
Pub Date: 05 Jan 2015
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Latin American Series
Description:
From 1967 to 1973, a period that culminated in the socialist project of Salvador Allende, nearly 400,000 low-income Chileans illegally seized parcels of land on the outskirts of Santiago. Remarkably, today almost all of these individuals live in homes with property titles. As Edward Murphy shows, this transformation came at a steep price, through an often-violent political and social struggle that continues to this day.