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Word: poblacion (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Usage:

...shantytowns that house hordes of landless peasants in search of jobs. Usually such squatters' settlements are either deliberately overlooked by officialdom or broken up by police within a few days. In the Chilean capital of Santiago, however, a luxuriantly mustached leftist named Victor Toro, 28, has founded a poblacion callampa ("mushroom town") that the government cannot ignore and the police cannot destroy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chile: A Commune Called Paradise | 6/1/1970 | See Source »

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