Rodolfo Lara
09/01/2020 - 16:29
Clarín.com
Politics
What dissuades a person from violently taking public or private land?
In several decades, the laws in force and even the Constitution did not prevent the extension of 1,800 settlements in the Province of Buenos Aires.
Given the current advance of the phenomenon, politics, as well as other institutional actors, reinvents avoiding a certain responsibility with some formulas that appear as novel as they are difficult to apply.
It would emerge as a kind of declarative safeguard, from some sector of the ruling party, how much of the opposition.
In recent days, the president of the Chamber of Deputies of the Nation,
Sergio Massa
, raised the removal of social plans such as the AUH for those who usurp real estate.
With proof of law enforcement to evict them.
A political gambit in self-defense while the Government, which is integrated as a coalition, maintains that the takings are not a security problem.
Massa's objective appears unlikely, and he states it despite that certainty.
They demolished two constructions that had been made on a public square in Fuerte Apache.
This Tuesday, the parliamentary opposition in Buenos Aires also resumed that path with a project in Congress.
It proposes "the limitations of provincial assistance to people and social organizations that participate in land and property seizures."
The innovation is that it recognizes, behind these extended episodes,
the existence of political movements
that support them, in many cases.
The restriction on access to assistance, according to the proposal,
"will last two years,
once the enforcement authority becomes aware of the fact in question by any means."
For this, the first article establishes the creation of a Unique Registry of Beneficiaries of Social Programs of the Province.
It is with the intention of "identifying the recipients of assistance plans and / or programs by the Buenos Aires Executive Power."
As is known,
the usurpation of land is punishable by up to 3 years in prison.
The Juntos por el Cambio initiative has this argument: “It is inadmissible that the national and provincial government is justifying the land seizure that is happening in various districts of our province:
San Fernando, La Plata, La Matanza, President Perón, Marcos Paz ,
Partido de la Costa, among others.
The absence and abandonment of the State in the face of a situation as complex and worrying as this cannot, in any way, be justified as a housing need ”.
The police thwarted two seizure attempts on land in La Plata.
"This need cannot omit a crime that not only means being accomplices but also accepting that, faced with the specific need of the people of Buenos Aires, the answer is the absolute absence of the State promoting insecurity and lack of control", completes the author.
The other novelty is that they incorporate the "instigators".
That is, to those who promote the shots, even if they are not in the place.
How would those categories be established without a court ruling?
It is complex.
Even with the informal evidence of the knowledge of the mayors, for example, who know the matrix of the organizations, politicians or gangsters, that are behind each crime.
Always shielded in the housing need of thousands of Buenos Aires.
The project corresponds to Together for Change.
It was presented by the provincial deputy Alex Campbell,
the undersecretary of Municipal Affairs in the management of María Eugenia Vidal.
You have a problem mapping from your old role.
This Monday, he was preceded in the demand for compliance with the law by the mayors of that space Jorge Macri (Vicente López), Diego Valenzuela (Tres de Febrero), Néstor Grindetti (Lanús) and Julio Garro (La Plata).
They had asked Axel Kicillof to define a position on the issue.
They barely got a manual answer: "The full weight of the law for those who commit a crime."
But quickly, the governor warned that “you have to see each case in particular.
I do not prejudge because you have to see each situation.
Can not generalize".
In other words, the land seizures would be left in a non-punitive political limbo, almost exculpatory according to the circumstances.
It is a message, at least, ambiguous.
Not very persuasive, in the opinion of critics.
"That does not stop those who are determined to usurp," they conclude.
Kicillof enters the same plane of appreciation as Minister Sabina Frederic.
The Nation official declared that the usurpation of real estate "is not a matter of security."
All despite the fact that a quarter of the land taken is from the provincial or federal State.
They should, if necessary, act in court as victims.
It is a heritage of the society they represent.
The provincial security minister, Sergio Berni, interprets something of that, who considers it appropriate to suppress such crimes.
Confront the will with the facts: it is the Police who must intervene, especially at the moment of flagrante delicto, that is, when the usurpation is taking place.
So far, the minister's preaching doesn't work.
His words remain as I try.
"It is a crime that is organized. Behind the housing need, there are living people who organize themselves to see how they take advantage. There are different types of shots: many are for housing reasons,
but others for economic reasons,
where based on the needs of the people They take the land, sell it, they start to have lawyers, accountants. "
Some voices also incorporate
the judicial litany
.
The lack of response from prosecutors and judges, consistent with the seriousness of the events.
"In the province of Buenos Aires the right to private property are two things that are not discussed," wants to install Berni.
It is precisely what is under discussion.
A drive between the patrimonial issue protected by constitutional norm, and the social distress that opens unpredictable channels.
That drive is more latent than ever, in the midst of a beastly pandemic and poverty levels that reach half the population.
Kicillof says that answers must be "ordered
.
"
They suggest you set the order first.