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Squatters in UruguayThis forum post has messages dated from 01/19/12 through 01/20/12, please be sure to read all the messages. If you feel it is old or outdated, please follow up with a question or comment and someone may be able to update it, or reply with newer information if you have it.
| Squatters in Uruguay Below is a link to an English news article about 80 families taking over farm land in the northern part of Uruguay.How would this, and the governments response, affect your decision to move to Uruguay or remain in Uruguay if you are already living in Uruguay? Expert Page: City Introduction Tours, Apartments in Pocitos and General Expat Help |
Comment #101/19/12 09:35Rural east Colonia departmento | "Squatters"
I have mixed feelings on this.I seem to recall that the law on squatters in domestic houses was tightened up a few years ago giving the owner more days to object, denounce the squatters to the police and evict them immediately rather than spend a lot of time and money evicting them through the courts. There was much alarm amongst my neighbours before the last election because of FA proposals about redistributing unused farmland to poor people... but as is usual with the current government, not much seemed to happen since the elections. Even down here in prosperous Colonia there are large areas of farmland which show no signs of being cultivated or grazed year after year so I can see a degree of moral justification when poor people occupy and use such wasted assets. For many years Irish governments had an official scheme to redistribute such lands to landless people under an organisation called the Lands Commission which handled such matters in a legal manner and paid compensation to the owners. While I wouldn't like to see my own farm occupied by squatters, I can see why poor people might do so if I didn't farm or otherwise use the land and just abandoned it instead. |
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First, are the families that are occupying the land, also farming it? Or just using it as a place to call home? If they are farming it, are they making a profit and bringing their position in society up?Or, are the poor just staying poor? ie: is giving the land away accomplishing anything significant? Maybe a better program would be to develop a system where "these people" (I know that sounds terrible) could use un-utilized lands to do productive farming and the land owners would receive a return on their investment (the land) in the process. Of course it might take some work to develop a system that was "fair" to all parties involved. Another big issue in such a system would be getting the people from being in the position of "squatters" and into the positive of being productive, profitable farmers. The video linked below overviews a program to help educate small farmers with small plots of land to be productive, profitable farmers in Paraguay. The first few minutes of the video are a bit off topic, but then it gets interesting..... in English: Expert Page: Quick Tips for Getting Settled in Uruguay |
Comment #301/20/12 09:34Rural east Colonia departmento | "It can be done"
Good video.As can be seen in many other countries, it can be done if a legal framework is set up for doing it and a bit of money is provided by the government to grease the wheels and help to set up the necessary co-ops for small farmers to make it possible to run such undercapitalised small units efficiently and profitably. In my view, its a better, cheaper and more productive approach than waiting for the landless poor to flee to the cities and to try to alleviate their problems once they get there. |
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