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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.
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