Parque Indoamericano

[1] Located on a flood-prone plain in what was, until the middle of the 20th century, the southwestern outskirts of Buenos Aires, the park began to take shape during the 1960s, when the area was designated as the Parque Almirante Brown redevelopment zone.

[3] UCR Councilman Carlos Louzán ultimately obtained passage of a resolution for the construction of a city park in the remaining areas 1993,[4] and on December 1, 1995, Mayor Jorge Domínguez inaugurated the Parque Indoamericano.

[6] Mayor Jorge Telerman followed these works with the December 2006 inaugural of the Paseo de los Derechos Humanos ("Human Rights Promenade"), a memorial to the questionable 30,000 dissidents killed during the Dirty War thirty years earlier.

[10][11] The major influx of people residing in the park and on its margins has been blamed on the expansion of export-oriented agribusiness, and specifically soybean production, in the Argentinean countryside which led to widespread displacement of rural populations.

[17] After an agreement between Macri and Kirchner in which the city will match funds provided by the central government to the squatters,[18] Chief Cabinet secretary Aníbal Fernández announced the clearing of the park via a Twitter post shortly after 6:30am local time.