Exempel på barrio

• Of the 33 communities in the province that won official recognition as comunidades ind'genas i in the period 1926 to 1947, 21 were communities of the barrios.

• The international community should acknowledge the corruption, but realise that there are good people in civil society—in the barrios, for example, where women help by working in the soup kitchens.

• In the post-war period, barrio representatives increasingly filed accusations about illegal sales and usurpations of their lands by outsiders.

• Colonial legal documents distinguished between two kinds of ayllu/ barrio land.

• Second, barrio people actively negotiated the terms through which the land-for-labour arrangement was re-worked.

• Municipal and political authorities could no longer prevent barrio communities from appointing their own judges and overseeing their own land allocation.

• The buyers, the majority local families, affiliated with the surrounding barrio.

• The ability of the ayuntamiento, the barrio, and the patronym group to carry out their functions became entirely dependent on the goodwill of their constituencies.

• After the war, the town was forced to accept a legal re-classification of barrio lands.

• Barrio people had certainly contributed to the fight against this form of labour service.

• In archival and newspaper sources barrio people appear as flickering shadows.

• Material in the municipal archive gives no evidence of open hostility on the part of barrio communities.

• If barrio leaders were gaoled or excessively fined, they retaliated by blocking labour demands or disappearing.

• I sent for one of the alcaldes de barrio and told him my wishes.

• On paper, the grassroots level of decision-making and management in the camps resides at al-hayy (neighbourhood or barrio), each composed of about 200 tents.