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Showdown Looms Over Europe's Largest Shantytown

A digger demolishes a shack as a boy walks nearby in one section of the sprawling Cañada Real slum on the outskirts of Madrid on March 5. After decades of turning a blind eye to Europe's largest illegal settlement, cash-strapped authorities are demolishing homes there and taking back the land. (Reuters /Landov)
A digger demolishes a shack as a boy walks nearby in one section of the sprawling Cañada Real slum on the outskirts of Madrid on March 5. After decades of turning a blind eye to Europe's largest illegal settlement, cash-strapped authorities are demolishing homes there and taking back the land. (Reuters /Landov)

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