ABSTRACT
This chapter presents and discusses some of the findings and insights gained through nine-year experience as head of the Urban Resettlement Program in the Yacyreta Project. The Resettlement and Social Action Program elaborated by the PRUAS emphasized resettlement into houses that would be constructed by Yacyreta, and the implementation of several social action programs that would improve the health, economic, and social standards of the relocatees. Repayment of the installments remains one of the most conflictive issues confronting the Entidad Binacional Yacyreta with the provincial government and with some groups of resettlers, who have organized themselves into a so-called Commission for the Defense of the Interests of the Relocated Population. This confrontation includes incitements to hold down the payments by the aforementioned Commission and even by the authorities of the Province of Misiones. The urban poor, who make up the bulk of the population affected by Yacyreta in Posadas, are not a tradition-bound human group.
