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Land seizure in Guernica: those who "surrendered" and those who say they stay "whatever" four days after the eviction

2020-09-19T21:11:04.246Z


The court order is for Wednesday. There are those who say they will leave, but others announce that they will "resist." During the week, there were detainees accused of being part of an organization that sells the lots.


Emilia vexler

09/19/2020 - 16:58

  • Clarín.com

  • Society

“For now we are in our house, day and night, because there is little room and people crowd.

And if there is going to be an eviction ... I don't know what I'm going to do.

I stay on the street.

And that is not going to happen ”, she tells

Clarín

María Franco.

Talk about a future more than near.

On

Wednesday

.

And that house is a square, by dint of wood and bags of black waste, in the

land seizure of Guernica.

In this property there is no quarantine for the coronavirus.

Perhaps this part of southern Buenos Aires is the only one in which so many “pre-pandemic scenes are experienced: many people and almost

no masks

.

The fear is another: that they will remove the

2,500 families that settled on those 100 hectares in July.

As the buildings are not more than 2 meters high and there are no walls between them, nothing stops the wind in these fields.

The mate, shared, calms 10 degrees this Saturday morning.

But

the weather is tense.

And divided.

The "crack" here is between

those who surrendered

and know they will stay and those who

warn that they will resist.

According to

an opinion to which he had access

Bugler

, the investigating judge No. 8 of Cañuelas, Martin Rizzo ordered the "acquiescence to launch" as is legally defined to the desalojo- that

will take

shape on 23, 24 and 25 September

" during daylight hours and in favorable weather conditions ", and which will be

in charge of the Buenos Aires Police.

There are four days until an operation in which, then, the police force can be used.

But Noelia Gómez, 37, is ready.

"Nobody is going to leave here,

this place has been uninhabited since the 1950s. Are we going to leave it to the politicians so they can continue making money?

It is ours and

we are not leaving because there is nowhere to go.

They do not give us a solution.

The box is going to be banked here anyway, ”he tells

Clarín 

during a tour of the property.

His story is difficult.

She has five children, her husband died and his children, from a previous marriage, took over the house where they lived.

“They still haven't counted me.

But that is useless.

Nobody should leave because

if they loosen up they harm us all ”

, he details, about those who have already accepted what seems inevitable.

Walter Benítez is the same age as Noelia and is less than 5 meters from her, right in front.

They are divided by a gardener's line tied to four sides and which acts as a party wall.

They are good neighbors.

But

he is one of those who is going to go.

I am not going to confront the police.

I'm going to go back to my brother's, if they take us out on Wednesday and don't let us pay, legally, for a place here, ”he says.

The land seizure of Guernica: Justice ordered the eviction for Wednesday, but many people say they will stay anyway.

Photo: Rolando Andrade Stracuzzi

His story is different from that of many people in Guernica.

He is single, has no children and, as of Thursday, had a blank job.

“In the last few months I went back to work in the construction company.

Before, they paid me the ATP so I collected that from the State every month.

But on Thursday they called me and told me to send the urgent telegram.

They forced us all to resign. "

Unable to pay the rent to his brother, in Lomas de Zamora, he found out about the takeover and decided to settle.

“As a man, I can manage to leave.

But here there are many women with many children.

I don't think they will leave on Wednesday, ”he says.

Facundo Martínez, 22, does not think the same.

“I will stay and I will continue to stay.

How the conditions here are bad and we still don't have electricity, my wife and my son are at my mother-in-law's and I'm doing the job here.

I'm going to grab my little things and leave when we are all safe, not on the street, ”he tells

Clarín

.

Is unemployed.

Taking of lands in Guernica.

Officials of the Government of the Province advance with a census.

Justice ordered the eviction for Wednesday.

Photo: Rolando Andrade Stracuzzi

The mayor of President Perón's party, Blanca Cantero, defined her position this week.

"There is nothing to negotiate, because there is an eviction order," he

 said

,

adding that within the framework of the usurpations 

"there are organizations that are mounted above the needs of the people."

Cantero thus referred to the taking of a plot of about 90 hectares in his municipality.

"The lands are private and a company was doing a development," he stressed.

Guido G. owns Guernica in that area.

A small forest separates his house from the outlet.

He owns part of the usurped fields

.

“In July it started with 200 families, we filed a complaint, they had stolen the fences and poles.

Later, the Falcon Group had to come to remove other people who were on my property.

The situation is distressing and very complex.

Nights where shots are heard, it's a take this.

They had already done a census and now they are census again.

The order of Justice is already there ”, he details

Clarin.

The eviction request was made by the prosecutor for the case, Juan Condomí Alcorta, and endorsed by Chamber I of the La Plata Appeals Chamber.

In the eviction agreement, it was decided that

those who agree to leave the property

voluntarily to alleviate the tension that exist in the place will

not be charged

.

Taking of lands in Guernica.

Justice ordered the eviction for Wednesday.

Photo: Rolando Andrade Stracuzzi

Last Monday night, a 22-year-old girl was arrested after it was found that she was part of

a gang that offered plots

of land taken in Guernica worth

$ 50,000

on social media

.

His arrest was not the only one for the same crime.

Two weeks earlier, a remisero identified as David A. was also arrested for

offering lots over the internet.

In his case, the Buenos Aires Police came to him after a sale that was made.

During the search of his house, the purchase ticket was found, dated July 30.

The method is simple and, at the same time, illegal.

According to the authorities, this criminal group took advantage of the people's need to have a home and offered them, in exchange for a sum of money, a transfer of rights to possess the alleged lot, which did not imply ownership of the land, which

was divided evenly after the start of the shot

“Nobody paid for anything here.

We are people who have nowhere to go and we came here.

There was no organization or business.

We ran and crowded as best we could ”,

Lucia Martinez (66)

tells

Clarín

.

She complains that she was "locked in."

Its square is surrounded by four other equally precarious constructions.

To get out, in the event that bricks were to be raised in the future instead of bags, she would have to go through the house of her neighbors.

There will be no corridor

, because this has already been discussed, we have assemblies on the premises.

And it can't be like that, there should always be corridors.

We want it to be a neighborhood, not a village, ”explains Laura, who is also Martínez but is not related to Lucía.

The seizure of lands in Guernica continues and the Government of the Province carries out a census before the eviction, ordered for Wednesday by the Justice.

Photo: Photo: Rolando Andrade Stracuzzi

“Here you will find everyone with the same surname.

Martínez, Fernández, Gómez, González ”, he jokes.

Clarín noticed these coincidences, so marked, in some cases they cast doubt on the true identity of the inhabitants of the property.

“We have been here since the first day, in July, and we are going to stay.

We do not want a confrontation but here there will be endurance ”, says Diego González, one of the delegates of the taking.

He worked loading and unloading trucks and was unemployed in June.

His box, where he lives with Cecilia and her five children, is almost at the entrance of the property, very

close to Bogado and Patagones

, where a cell phone and a patrol car from Buenos Aires have been stationed for days.

Guido G.'s house, the owner, and Diego's box, which was settled without a deed, are

only separated by about 300 meters.

Mabel, who is a maid and a single mother of a baby girl, also gave up.

“Here we are three families, in this small square (as described by the dividing line that, at that point, houses three Casillas in less than a few square meters).

I collect the allowance per child, like many here, but it is not enough and I work, that recently they called me again.

I tried, but

if they take us out on Wednesday, I don't want to have legal problems, "he

says.

SC

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Source: clarin

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