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Art 20. In the name of progress or the right to be taken into account

“We didn't reject the construction of the metro train any more than we accepted our impending eviction,” says Margarita Monforte from the Association of 40 Families Threatened with Eviction in Lima Center. The women in particular asserted their rights and fought for a fair resettlement; the metro train passes directly opposite.
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“We have never been against the construction of the urban railway, but not at the price of being expelled” says Margarita Monforte, president of the neighborhood association “Quinta Virgen del Quinto Patio”, the struggle of forty families in downtown Lima to exercise their rights in front ofthe megaproject of the electric train as part of a mass transportation system in the Peruvian capital.

Authors:

  • Jorge Krekeler | jorge.krekeler@posteo.de

Design:

  • Diana Patricia Montealegre

Photos:

  • Jorge Krekeler

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january 2017

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