The Liniers stockyards were built near the western end of the city at a time when it was still a few miles outside any built-up areas.
But by the 1920s - just a generation after opening - it was already surrounded by working-class neighborhoods. Traditional one and two-story rowhouses and corner shops common to most Argentine cities even today.
The stockyards, as you can imagine, limited the development of the surrounding areas - one of which became an outright slum partly as a result.
It goes without saying that most of the residents in the Mataderos ward are happy to finally see it go - after 20 years of unjustified injunctions granted to the owners by right-wing, often corrupt judges.
Some of them would've felt right at home with Devin Nunes.
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