Infringing the Rights of Those Who Wound Us: Busy Spaces and Recovering in the City of Buenos Aires

This article presents a comparative analysis of squatting in public/private buildings in the City of Buenos Aires after the return to democracy, and the so-called recovering of spaces by neighborhood assemblies that emerged after the cacerolazos (pot-banging) in late 2001. The study focuses on their climax and their struggle for legitimacy, as well as on their subsequent failing after a series of exemplary government evictions. Adapted from the source document.