Here is a few sanctimonious words. All of these people knew deep down that they were just buying into a temporary living arrangement. None truly believed that they were the actually owners of real property. Their skill in collectively showing outrage at the government is all in their script. Living and squatting anywhere under those conditions and circumstances has a expiration date. Build a house or shack on vacant land and maybe you can squeeze a few years out or a few months. Using children and the elderly as a tool for sympathy is a specialty here.
I could write a small book about squatters here. It is actually a fairly complex subject but most of the parts of it have been posted here at one time or another in bits and pieces
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One can see in the video that many of the shacks being demolished are no more than a few sticks and zinc sheets that were thrown together in a matter of a few hours.
Not houses by a long shot, just primitive attempts at staking a claim. Note each of those thrown together shelters (empty, of course) are on a large piece of land, while if you look at the rest of the area homes are literally inches apart. That should tell you something.
Most of those knew something was in the works and just tried to jump on the bandwagon. Professional squatters.
They are folks trying to take advantage of govt. sympathy and hoping they can be given an apartment, which they turn around and sell.
The practice of giving notice was halted many years ago. The only thing giving notice accomplished was to quadruple the number of people who would be there on the announced day including politicians and activists like Padre Rogelio and others who take the opportunity to use the platform to push their own agendas.
As Big says, they know their time is numbered from the moment they start bringing in scrap materials to build their lean-to.
