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Owning real estate in other countries?

I have a friend who is looking for in Peru. I never thought of that. Which countries are a good bet (and U.S.) to buy residential property?

Not sure, but I do know is that you'd better be careful because some countries only allow the ownership structure, no property, others do not allow the ownership period, beware of scams!

Peru, real estate agency, Mercedes Fortunic

Ugly Stories of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform (Latin America Otherwise) $22.23 Ugly Stories of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform reveals the human drama behind the radical agrarian reform that unfolded in Peru during the final three decades of the twentieth century. That process began in 1969, when the left-leaning military government implemented a drastic program of land expropriation. Seized lands were turned into worker-managed cooperatives. After those cooperatives began to f…

Water and Power in Highland Peru: The Cultural Politics of Irrigation and Development $18.67 In Andean society, as in many other areas of the world, irrigation water carries broad cultural significance and has long been a source of conflict. Nowhere is the struggle over irrigation and over the cultural meanings of water more apparent than in Cabanaconde, a large peasant community located in the arid highlands of southern Peru. Using historical materials and richly detailed ethnographic re…

Between Reform and Revolution: Political Struggles in the Peruvian Andes, 1969-1991 (Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University) $25.00 This is the story of one of the most ambitious agrarian reforms in Latin American history. The book argues that the economic, political, and cultural dynamics set in motion by the reforms are central to understanding the brutal civil war that ensued in Peru between the state and the Maoist-Leninist Shining Path guerilla movement….