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Argentina: Ocho de Mayo informal settlement

Community leader Lorena Pastoriza drinks coffee and smokes a cigarette at her home in Ocho de Mayo. Lorena was 23 when she moved in, among the first settlers to arrive here on the 8th of May of 1998. They took land in what used to be an illegal dump. The area was heaped with garbage up to 20 feet high. Snakes and rats nested in dismantled cars and scrap piles. "For us, now, this is a paradise."

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Community leader Lorena Pastoriza drinks coffee and smokes a cigarette at her home in Ocho de Mayo. Lorena was 23 when she moved in, among the first settlers to arrive here on the 8th of May of 1998. They took land in what used to be an illegal dump. The area was heaped with garbage up to 20 feet high. Snakes and rats nested in dismantled cars and scrap piles. "For us, now, this is a paradise."