Redevelopment, Resettlement, and the Right to the City

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http://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Cat-Power-01-Woman-feat.-Lana-Del-Rey-3331841.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsAsuncion     There are more than 500,000 people living in the Asuncion, the capital and largest city in Paraguay, with 30% of the country’s population located in the metro area.  In meetings with Habitat Paraguay, Banco Alimentos, and Oxfam Paraguay we heard a lot about the challenges …

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Labor Unions Struggling to Find Their Place in Paraguay

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Asuncion      The headquarters of the Confederacion Paraguaya de Trabajadores or CPT is located on a gritty street near central Asuncion named after an historic colonial general named Yergos.  The imposing brick wall on the corner of the street hosts a small plaque that commemorates the location as the home of the federation.  Walking through the …

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Fundacion Paraguaya, Social Enterprise and the Poverty Stoplight

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Asuncion         Our first successful contacts in Asuncion were with the Fundacion Paraguaya.  After weeks of sending emails without answer and puzzling over our problems, Martin Burt, the Executive Director of the Fundacion immediately answered my email, and almost as quickly we were having a lengthy Skype call, and he was offering his help, including the …

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