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Constructed in 1978, the four-star establishment received generous government subsidies in anticipation of the ; however Tourism In Argentina was soon sunk by the Military Dictatorship 's Dirty War and economic troubles which eventually led to the Crisis of the 1990s and early 2000s. In the wake of the December Riots and after systematic firings, the Hotel Bauen was closed on December 28 , 2001 . In March of 2003, with the help of the Movimiento Nacional de Empresas Recuperadas ( MNER ), the hotel's former employees occupied the building. While fighting for ownership through activism and negotiation, they began repairs to the building and slowly re-opened business. They have since hired over 85 workers, inaugurated a streetfront café (whose tile floors come from FaSinPat , a worker-controlled ceramics factory) and equipped more than 200 hotel rooms. Today the Hotel Bauen boasts rising profits, and is a center of cultural and political activity in Buenos Aires. However, the long term legality of the worker's ownership and operation is ambiguous. On October 21, 2005 the hotel was informed that, while a legal right of former employees to keep residence in the hotel was recognized, they were not permitted to function as a business. Upon delivery of this notice, entrances were closed off with official tape, but this tape was quickly removed by hotel workers, and business operations continue today {Link without Title} . EXTERNAL LINKS
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