Hotel Bauen

Inaugurated in 1978, the four-star establishment received generous government subsidies in anticipation of the 1978 FIFA World Cup, which took place in Buenos Aires that June.

In March 2003, with the help of the Movimiento Nacional de Empresas Recuperadas (National Movement of Recovered Businesses, MNER), the hotel's former employees occupied the building.

While fighting for ownership through activism and negotiation, they began repairs and slowly reopened for business.

A bill of expropriation, the Ley Nacional de Expropiación, would have definitively entitled the Bauen workers to ownership of the hotel.

Sponsored by Deputy Victoria Donda in the National Congress, the bill introduced in 2007 but failed to pass.