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It Could Happen Here

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The Problem of Squatting in the Caribbean

In Beirut's Quarantino, Mexico City's Santa Cruz, Rio de Janeiro's favelas, and Cairo's City of the Dead, up to 1 million people live in homes made out of actual tools. Davis addresses the issues root cause that be in post-colonial neoliberal policies driven by free market capitalist principles. Squatting was how a lot of recently emancipated people gained some foothold to live, no, they could not stay on the plantation system.

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