CURRENT LEAD THE WAY FOR THE RECOVERY OF OUR SOVEREIGNTY OF NEXT REGIONAL
ELSA M. PROFESSOR Bruzzone
BUENOS AIRES, JUNE 2007
On 10 June, was sworn the new Constitution of the Province of Corrientes. It closed three months of intense debates and confrontations. These reached their peak during the meeting on Friday, 1 June, which ended at dawn the next day, with the approval by 21 conventional, rejecting 15 of them, the abstention of one and the absence of 2, Article 13, which determines the ban on access to real property located in safe areas, protected areas, or form strategic resources by non-resident aliens or naturalized, citizens or companies formed by foreign capital, and companies without authorization to operate in the country, and Article 10, adopted by 31 conventional, with the negative vote of 7 to provide the people's sovereignty over its water resources Corrientes, minerals, hydrocarbons, environmental biodiversity, Esteros del Ibera, Guaraní Aquifer in the area fall within the province and public lands. The people said correntino this inside and outside the premises during the whole session and aborted the attempt of some conventional lift attempted until Monday June 4 to "unify criteria." Much water had flowed under the bridge: the devices to prevent the conventional assumption as Sonia Lopez, a social leader and the Communist Party Corrientes, the refusal of the office that was incumbent on the Legislature, Sonia did not flinch and his office was a public tent installed in the square in front of Congress, the grievances on the part of some "constitutional scholars" who do not even live in the Province, to conventional, many of which were branded "ignorant blacks, the pressures of any kind to prevent the enactment of favorable articles Corrientes people ... A lot of water, too .... And the day came on 10 June that, oh coincidence!, Is the day that we confirm our sovereignty over the Malvinas, Georgias and South Sandwich. Whoever wrote this article, was invited to witness the swearing in of the new Provincial Constitution. It was an unexpected gift. Fruition the seeds planted over the years, especially in the last five. The Corrientes, forgetting for a moment the social and political differences, stood up and marked the way forward for the recovery of our sovereignty over natural resources and strategic country. And in that little book, bearing the name of Constitution of the Province of Corrientes, the following Articles are rays of light, the beacon that lights the beginning of a new July 9, 1816 that is looming.
ARTICLE 58: ".... The Guarani Aquifer in the area fall within the territory of the Province of Corrientes and public lands located in the ecosystem in the public domain Ibera Provincial State .... "
ARTICLE 61: "It is the government of the province to maintain the integrity of the province. The Provincial Government shall strive to provide incentives to maintain ownership of real property located in safe areas or in protected areas or that are strategic resources in the hands of Argentine-born residents, or of the Provincial Government and municipalities.
foreigners without permanent residence, a company formed by citizens or foreign capital and companies without authorization to operate in the country, can not acquire property in certain areas in the preceding paragraph, except for foreigners who can prove legal residence according to law. "
ARTICLE 63:" The province considers land as an instrument of production, avoiding speculation, the uprooting and the formation of unproductive estates .... The State Provincial tends to maintain optimum production unit, the implementation of plans of colonization and settlement of rural families with credit support, technical and development. The law establishes the conditions of land management as a renewable resource, and through general taxation discourages overexploitation and freehold improvements. "
ARTICLE 64:" The law of division, allocation and land administration tax is established by law must consider the purpose of promotion, development and production, direct and rational exploitation by the contractor and the delivery and preferential allotment to its occupants, to small producers and their descendants and legal persons or other cooperative organization forms of association. "
ARTICLE 65:" To regulate the system of protected areas, the provincial government enacted laws establishing:
1) The preservation, protection, conservation and recovery of natural resources and their management in perpetuity.
3) The safeguarding of biodiversity and the protection and control of genetic resources plant and animal species.
5) The zoning of these areas, with the participation of municipalities and communities that inhabit the region. "
ARTICLE 66:" It shall strategic assets, natural and cultural Corrientes Province for the purposes of preservation, conservation and advocacy: the ecosystem Ibera wetlands and their biodiversity, and as a reservoir of fresh water in the territorial area that is determined by law, subject to survey and based on technical studies. Must preserve the right of the original inhabitants, while respecting their forms of community and cultural identity. "
The long battle has begun. Also the counter. Many are tearing their hair out screaming from the rooftops that these articles violated the Constitution. I wonder Why do not they tore their clothes when legislators through phony or traitors alienate our resources and strategic business corporations for U.S., European and Canadian, which is allied to the capitalist "national"? Why do not they tore their clothes when they violate the Constitution, lawmakers committed an act of "treason" granting Presidents and Ministers of Finance the sum of public power to govern us and rule by decrees of necessity and urgency? Why do not they tore their clothes when, again violating the Constitution and laws, the Argentine Government agreed to settle the conflicts that had to transnational corporations, not in our own righteousness and our laws, but the World Bank headquarters, accepting the ICSID, a body established by the Bank itself, in which judges are lawyers of those same companies? Why not tear or tear their clothes when they violated with impunity and continue to violate Articles 14 and 14 bis of the Constitution? We could go on .... This is a federal country, and if the National Congress not to the heights of the circumstances with regard to the processing and approval of laws that allow for the recovery of our sovereignty over land, water, forests, biodiversity, minerals and hydrocarbons, and sleep sleep of the righteous in the drawers of the Chamber of Deputies and Senators, it is fair that the people of the Provinces, and in this case the people of Corrientes, has taken the bull by the horns.
June 11, the daily La Nacion said in its editorial that the new Constitution Correntina is "xenophobic." No wonder. It has always been the voice of those who hate the people and the poor, of which are happy and grateful to live on his knees before the imperial power shift: first Britain, then U.S.. He has practiced and exercises systematically defending Douglas Thompkins, forgetting that this supposed defender of nature, has complaints against the sister republic of Chile in the civil, and unfulfilled agreements with the government regarding Pumalí Park, and criminal for having expelled violently were killed and wounded, farmers, settlers and indigenous communities living in the place, which are numerous criminal allegations against him in his own province of Corrientes, where all records are "damage to their property "and" usurpation and damage. " Here are some examples: Carlos Saul Zalazar, Ricardo Roberto Leiva, Raymundo Ramon Aguilar, Sebastian Sandoval, Elida Alsina Acuña, Rodolfo Leiva Fortunato, Mr. Meana Colodrero, followed by those records. Forget also "The Nation" that there are public complaints about abductions, disappearances and murders of people of the marshes, which the "philanthropist" has a private guard, who has threatened to kill journalists correntinos that have been faced and the son of Legislator Sussini. The same "welfare" was defined as "livestock" in the House of Representatives of the Province, has more cattle than all Corrientes together farmers and tourist exploitation and charged in dollars, the ill-gotten lands it owns in the Esteros. Who writes this, he knows what he's talking. During the past five years, has toured the province, talked to his people and has worked together to CEMIDA with justice Ituzaingó Township in a case against a front for Thompkins in place. He has also agreed to be a witness in some criminal cases against the "benefactor." "The Nation" says that we are and Corrientes (Argentina because I'm too am Corrientes, Santiago del Estero, Santa Cruz, Neuquen, chaco ....) "Xenophobic." So I wonder Americans and Europeans? It turns out that I, as I am a foreigner in these countries, I can not buy land areas or strategic resources. Do you think "The Nation" that a Mexican can buy land on the U.S. side attached to the border area? Or even further into the Empire? Lords of "The Nation": Do not be so naive and hypocritical. Put a coat once and for all they deserve.
has taken a big step, one giant. It is the kickoff of the final battle for the recovery of our strategic resources. We hope that this will multiply, that scroll across the country far and wide. Of this there were discussed in the media these days. Has not spoken or is spoken of the courage of the people of Corrientes, especially the residents of Yahaveré, Deer, Duster, the Esteros del Ibera, Mercedes Concepcion, San Miguel, among others, have faced the large landowners, Thompkins, the World Bank, the U.S. government to shift power to achieve what he achieved. What happened in Corrientes must be known. We must break the wall of silence. I think the General José de San Martín, Corrientes in the end, I would be very proud of his "boys" and "girls", their worthy successors. The people of Corrientes has shown that the country is not a passion useless, because history has shown and demonstrates that the people and the country that do not own their land, water, forests, biodiversity, minerals and hydrocarbons to explore and exploit to their advantage, in harmony with nature and preserving them for they can also be enjoyed by future generations will always be kneeling before the transnational corporations, financial institutions and international economic and imperial powers of the day. Can never be truly free, independent, autonomous and sovereign. The battle has begun. Current shows us the path. It has risen. The outcome depends on us to achieve what must be recovered ..
contribution of Dr. Virginia Chiessa, the Bar Association of Rosario
