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Chanti Ollin

Chanti Ollin

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Chanti Ollin was a self-managed social centre in Mexico City, Mexico, between 2003 and 2017. It was occupied in 2003 by students from the 1999–2000 UNAM strike and participants in Okupa Che. It was a derelict five storey building at Calle Melchor Ocampo 424 in Cuauhtémoc.[1] The name means "house in motion" in the Nahuatl language.[1]

The Chanti Ollin building in 2022. It is still unoccupied after it was evicted in 2016.

Alongside other squats such as Okupa Che, Chanti Ollin was listed by the Mexican intelligence services as an anarchist organisation attacking the state.[2] It was evicted and re-squatted in 2015.[3] The squat was finally evicted in November 2016.[4] Twenty five people were arrested and then released, and one Guatemalan national was deported. The squatters condemned the illegal eviction.[5] A protest camp was set up outside the building which lasted until February 2017.[1]

References

  1. [1]
    González, Robert; de Santiago, Diego; Rodríguez, Marco Antonio (2020). "Squatted and Self-Managed Social Centres in Mexico City: Four Case Studies from 1978–2020". Partecipazione e Conflitto. doi:10.1285/i20356609v13i3p1269.
  2. [2]
    Cortés, Raúl Rodríguez (11 October 2019). "Los ocho grupos de choque y sus titiriteros". El Universal (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 April 2021.
  3. [3]
    "Dan formal prisión a hombre que invadió el predio "Chanti Ollin"". El Universal (in Spanish). 5 December 2016. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
  4. [4]
    "Mexico City: Chanti Ollin evicted". squat.net. 24 November 2016. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
  5. [5]
    "Liberan a 25 detenidos por desalojo del Centro Chanti Ollin". Proceso (in Spanish). 22 November 2016. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
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