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Grabois: growing influence in the Government, millionaire boxes and usurped lands included in a Popular Neighborhoods plan

2020-11-01T10:44:44.995Z


The leader close to Pope Francis displaced Minister María Eugenia Bielsa. Its militants occupy key positions. Occupied lands that were included without notice in his ambitious development plan.


Nicolas Wiñazki

11/01/2020 12:33 AM

  • Clarín.com

  • Politics

Updated 11/01/2020 12:33 AM

The leader of the Confederation of Workers of the Popular Economy (CTEP), also of the front called "Patria Grande" and of the Movement of Excluded Workers "(MTE), the lawyer Juan Grabois, is not an official of the National Government. But he works as if It was. He has reasons. With the support of Vice President Cristina Fernández, and because of his never denied and real closeness to Pope Francis, he

managed to appoint officials of his absolute confidence in key positions

to control the main government plan to begin to finish with the lack of decent housing in Argentina.

This is the action that follows the ordinances of a Law, voted in 2018 with the consensus of government officials and opponents, and endorsed by the Vatican, which began with the registration of deprived neighborhoods throughout the country.

An attempt will be made to urbanize them.

And regularize the ownership of those lands, granting them to their current inhabitants.

The settlements that need to improve their infrastructure are four thousand four hundred

.

The occupants who settled in these multiple and diverse lots, where everything is missing, from water to sewers, electricity and asphalt, will be able to access a registration title for their homes.

The

"popular neighborhoods"

that entered the official census cannot be evicted by the Justice for a period of four years if their former owners demand that legal action.

The law says so. The body that studied these lands with housing in need is called the National Registry of Popular Neighborhoods (RENABAP).

Grabois, through civil servants who served with him, has the real management of this public policy.

The official in charge of surveying poor neighborhoods, and specifying their urbanizations, has been a member of Grabois

for years and her name is Fernanda Miño.

She is the head of the Secretariat for Socio-Urban Integration.

In the vast majority of cases, the more than 4,400 neighborhoods registered by the State were built years ago on public land.

But others did it on private land.

The State may expropriate those lands by paying what corresponds to their original owners.

The budget to achieve the final goal is more than 8 billion pesos.

Grabois works on this reconfiguration of the land in Argentina.

The legislation that put RENABAP into operation is number 27,743.

It bears the title of

"Regime of domain regularization for socio-urban integration".

At the same time, and also with the support of the vice president, Grabois presented to President Alberto Fernández, and to different ministers, another more ambitious plan that goes in the same direction to the RENABAP law, but at the same time is broader and deeper, and it has no basis in any legislation.

At first the project was called

"

San Martín" but it was renamed the

"

Comprehensive Urban Development Plan".

Grabois's idea is to

"repopulate"

Argentina

"by relocating industries, revitalizing small towns and creating rural communities that develop family, peasant and indigenous agriculture

.

"

In order for this new country to function, the installation of a new interurban transport system was studied.

The project could employ 4 million workers today excluded from the formal labor scheme, and 170 thousand employees who today have contracts under the legal regimes.

It would have a cost for the State of 750 billion pesos.

Exorbitant.

Even so, he got the endorsement of the President.

"There is a social need of people who need a roof and we have to take care of it,"

declared Fernández (Alberto) on Radio 10, and specified that he considered that the idea of ​​changing the mode of urbanization in Argentina, giving land in rural areas to new peasants,

"it is not unreasonable."

This project seeks to modify urbanization and land ownership at the national level with magnitudes never before known.

Grabois gives highly radicalized public speeches, claims to be in favor of agrarian reform and provoked conflicts that were nationalized, such as the taking of his militants from the "Santa Helena" countryside, from the Etchevehere family, where he tried to install an agroecology project called "Artigas ".

In this last plan he failed.

But the day after its militants were forced by Justice to vacate a field that was determined to be illegally usurping, President Fernández himself confirmed the support that Grabois has from the Government.

Can this be achieved without encouraging illegal land takeovers?

Grabois' proposal raised suspicions among several officials

because it seeks to avoid the bureaucratic labyrinths of finance by executing a budget through a trust, which would escape the controls necessary to guarantee its transparency.

Grabois, always symbolic to baptize, gave that imaginary trust the name of the priest emblem of left Peronism: "Mugica", by Carlos Mugica, murdered in Villa 31 by movements of the right wing of the PJ of the 70s.

The advancement and

growing influence of Grabois creates discomfort for several of the top

Cabinet

officials

.

But the social leader is much loved by the vice president, whom he accompanied in person to the courts in his last judicial presentations in corruption cases.

In order to promote the law for the registration of poor neighborhoods, Grabois managed to overcome the criticism of the Minister of Housing and Habitat, María Eugenia Bielsa, on whom this state plan depended.

The Socio-Urban Integration Secretariat was under the command of Bielsa, who after arguing strongly with Grabois over differences in his methods of control and execution of state finances, lost the internal one.

The body in charge of RENABAP went to Daniel Arroyo's Social Development portfolio.

Miño, its owner, a member of the Grabois social movements, continues to lead the project.

Last Friday, while there were still repercussions of the evictions in the Etchevehere camp and in the town of Guernica, the official Miño signed an agreement to

start urbanizing RENABAP neighborhoods in the province of Chaco.

The controversy could only just begin.

According to sources from the Cabinet, social movements, mayors and legislators who are aware of the issue, the registry of the "popular neighborhoods" that the official Miño registered to urbanize them increased according to the original census.

It so happens that

settlements that were born as land usurpations

, some recent, and others that would have been in this dynamic for some years

,

would

have

been included

.

As mentioned, with this inclusion in RENABAP they become immune to potential evictions dictated by the Justice for a period of four years.

Would the State then endorse usurpations of lands that had not been previously registered as "Barrios Populares" by RENABAP?

Time will tell.

The sources agree that it does.

Grabois managed to get

the Government of Fernández (Alberto) to give him part of power in the crisis due to the housing and land deficit

, and also in the management of hundreds of thousands of social plans controlled by the CTEP, because in addition to having earned the esteem de Fernández (Cristina), has a link with Pope Francis.

The social leader usually quotes the head of the Catholic Church in his public statements.

What

does the Pope think of the problem of land and the expropriations

of large landowners or the evictions of usurpers as dictated by Justice in those conflicts?

Almost exactly six years ago, on October 27, 2014, the Pope spoke to different popular movements aligned with the Vatican.

Among them, those of Juan Grabois.

He said, among many other concepts:

"Land, shelter and work. It's strange, but if I talk about this for some it turns out that the Pope is a communist

.

"

And he added:

"The word solidarity, which does not go down well, is a way of making history and that is what popular movements do."

And followed.

He praised the popular movements and left floating a concept that he repeated in 2015 and 2016 in meetings of the same style:

"No family without a home, no peasant without land, no worker without rights, no person without the dignity that work gives. ".

Grabois burst into public opinion with discursive force.

Controversial actions questioned by the Justice.

And a lot of power.

He already had it in the management of Mauricio Macri.

But now his influence increased.

Much more.

Source: clarin

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