It does sound majorly scrod up if these semi-shanty town shops truly paid advance rent and the rent was accepted. Is the new administration not accepting the acts of the old one?
It looks like the people were paying rent to the city, but the federal government is clearing them out. They told the people being evicted they had to take their case up with the City Council, the same people who’ve been taking the rent and bribes for years. No win situation for the shop keeper who just lost everything. All so the government can have a neat, tidy capitol in a third world country that just ended a long civil war.