In the Name of (Private) Progress: Intimidation and Harassment in Guaynabo’s Corrupt Practices to Displace Vietnam’s Residents.
Vietnam is a working-class community located on the only waterfront terrain that the wealthy city of Guaynabo has. Although Vietnam residents are protected from unilateral application of eminent domain procedures by virtue of the Law of Special Communities (2001), they still faced a brutal expropria...
| Publicado en: | Centro Journal Vol. 34; no. 2; pp. 145 - 177 |
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Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos (Center for Puerto Rican Studies)
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