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Squatters´ Rights?

There’s a “tragic” report in today’s El Pais about the suffering of the residents of Siloé due to lack of public transport to their doorsteps.

http://www.elpais.com.co/paisonline/calionline/notas/Septiembre062009/...

Siloé of course is an “invasión”, that is to say a community of squatters. They climbed up the hillsides of Cali, hauled up building materials on horseback and built shacks on public (maybe even private) land. Years went by, they got away with it, they clamored for public services, got them and now some of them are put upon because public transportation won’t (can’t because the steep hillsides where they built their squatter shacks are inaccessible event to the 4x4 Carpatis and Bejing jeeps with low range that service this area) bring them to their doorsteps and they are forced to…walk. Now an employee involved with MIO proposes a telesferico (aerial tram) that will achieve that (cost be damned). The worry? Well it can´t haul up the remesas or the bags of concrete to extend the “invasión“. All of which will burn during a hot dry summer when a malcontent sets ablaze the dry scrub that grew up after the existing forests were torched and cut down to produce “pasture” for grazing cows. Ah...folkloric Colombia...

By Atrevido on Sep 6, 2009, 17:13 in Friendly Talkzone.

poco says on Sep 6, 2009, 18:17:

PBH is worth reading !!! I knew watching Atrevidos posts would pay off someday !!!

Thousand year mystery answered: What happend to the Cliff Dwelling Anastasi Indians !!!

Damn indians became cliff dwelling squatters in Colombia. I must say the climate is better.

Colombian Chickens are crowing about the new President of the U.S. who will assure that From each according to their ability to each according to their need.

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scumbuster says on Sep 7, 2009, 03:31:

I know what happened to those squatters... They slipped and fell...

Tomas Jefferson “When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.”

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dwmte7 says on Sep 9, 2009, 07:00:

of course the anastazi went to cali..............they ain't brain dead....and it wasn't the cliffs. it was the chicks, who put the native american chicks in the shade. pity

patriarch

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dwmte7 says on Sep 9, 2009, 07:01:

when an anastazi man kicks his wife outta the house, he simultaneously kicks her otta life. it's a long way down after the first step.

patriarch

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