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March 17, 2021
In 1991, a group of 36
Atacameño immigrant families from several Andean rural villages in northern Chile, driven by the marginal conditions in which they lived, decided to petition land to the Ministry of Government Property. Soon after, they started a squatter settlement in a former pasturing zone in the poverty belt of Calama mining town. It was barren land with no public services or houses to l