cabildo

Examples

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• A major problem experienced by cabildos in Otavalo was the shortage of funds.

  Academic text (2001)

• Similarly, when the first cabildos were elected in compliance with the Ley de Comunas, members of curaca families often found themselves as community presidents.

  Academic text (2001)

• The cabildos were legally entitled to receive national and international development funding.

  Academic text (2001)

• Thus, in the 1990s, sanctions were often imposed by elected cabildos in consultation with the communal assembly.

  Academic text (2001)

• The financial straits of the cabildos partly explain the lack of remuneration for their members.

  Academic text (2001)

• While situations varied from community to community (and from one period to another), cabildos were generally accountable directly to the communal assembly.

  Academic text (2001)

• The records of the cabildo of Guayaquil list numerous reports of disastrous fires that repeatedly desolated the city.

  Academic text (1991)

• Also, and importantly from the cabildo's viewpoint, the filling, street by street and block by block, has allowed successive councils to reward specific groups among the population with land and services.

  Academic text (1991)

• Led by their new and assertive cabildos, they could now appeal to the provincial offices of the ministries and institutes and thus bypass the local government.

  Academic text (2001)

• Although not all Otavalo communities had active cabildos or held regular assemblies, these two institutions had evolved into a prominent feature of the social and political landscape in Otavalo.

  Academic text (2001)

Synonyms

A

ayuntamiento

vscabildo

9.9

Local government or town hall building where officials meet

refers mainly to the same body in colonial times

Surface Forms

Etymology