Batallando para Entrar Bien a la Ciudad. El Compromiso Activo de los Ciudadanos Pobres Organizados con la Defensa del Suelo Urbano Público y contra el Tráfico de Tierras en Ecuador

In Latin America and the Caribbean, academic concern about the conditions and public mechanisms of access to cities for poor households has transcended the formalization of "case studies" and has been more closely linked to popular struggles for the defense and recovery of the public sphere in the face of two major problems. The first is demographic and is evidenced by the increase, in recent decades, of the population of urban poor in the cities of our countries. The second problem, of an economic nature, is that high percentages of these populations, unable to make ends meet, do not enter the cities, for example, through alternative processes such as associative-solidarity ones. On the contrary, they do so through land traffickers and private real estate developers, who have found in the States their main allies.