The males squatted like toads in front of them making faces and obscene gestures" ("Femme Fatale", 1881).
Originally a theatre, the space was squatted in 1979 by five young artists in need of a place to show their work.
Formerly squatted by an art collective, it reopened in the summer of 2013 as a cultural centre, Parque Cultural de Valparaíso, with a public park and a new auditorium designed by HLPS, one of Chile's up-and-coming architecture practices.
Outside the gallery, a spotlight fell across a strip of grass where Nelly Zhang squatted, scratching the dog's chest.
Up to 1m people in the city face food, water and medicine shortages; some 30,000 homeless people squatted around the city's football stadium.Two Zimbabwean journalists, arrested by the army for reporting an attempted coup, emerged on bail from nine days' detention.
On a recent afternoon in Ciracas, 20 or so mostly female customers squatted on straw mats as an instructor handed out envelopes marked with different coloured squares to signify things like household expenses and savings.
Many more are temporary hiding places for the desperate: according to research by Shelter, a housing charity, around 40% of single homeless people have squatted at some point.As the new law came into force, some squatters tried moving into commercial buildings, the occupation of which remains a civil offence.
Mr Chávez doles out public money in return for political loyalty.When Ms Parra's group squatted on 240 hectares (590 acres) of canefields belonging to a private sugar-mill, they were helped by the National Guard and the land-reform agency.
Meanwhile, as Mr Rodenbeck, who likes the fun but never forgets its mirror-image, notes soberly, "huddles of peasants squatted numbly outside agencies touting cut-price fares to jobs in Libya, Iraq and the Gulf .Egypt's landless peasants, flooding into the city, came like missionaries with an ancient fervency.
He squatted down to talk to local farmers to offer them help to see them through a severe drought that now plagues Henan and six other provinces in northern and central China.After 100 days without precipitation in the region, the government has declared a "Level 1" emergency for the worst drought in 50 years, authorising an extra 300m yuan ($44m) in special drought-relief spending.
They squatted and protested.
