Capital and its sicofant Policarpa Salavarrieta and Central Nacional Provivienda, Bogotá (1940-1980)

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https://doi.org/10.1344/ara2022.273.39776

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Invasions, urbanization, capitalism, Policarpa Salavarrieta, Bogota

Abstract

Research on urban social movements and struggles in the city of Bogotá originated in 1977 (the year of the first national civic strike). However, the process of conformation of popular settlements, also called “villas miseria” in Argentina, “favelas” in Brazil, or as they are generally called, and in Colombia “invasions”, began in the first decades of the 20th century. Rural violence accompanied by the effects of the globalization of the capitalist mode of production, in relation to the effects on the first sector, pushed waves of peasants and rural inhabitants to form what the state called "illegal popular settlements." The growth of popular neighborhoods in Bogotá positions the city as the largest recipient of migrants and where the mechanisms and forms of struggle were greatest. Next, the invasion process of Policarpa Salavarrieta in the city of Bogotá is exposed as a pioneer in the struggles for housing of the social organization Central Nacional PROVIVIENDA.

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2022-12-02

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