During the last four days 140 families are still occupying the Avellaneda park, Flores district, Buenos Aires. In here the families took over 200 apartments of a housing complex (belonging to City Housing Institute) or even build their own houses. Argentine’s Security Department presented a measure which contains to extend the time of the eviction of the families in Avellaneda park.
The housing complex belongs to the Authority of Matanza-Riachuelo basin, and includes 204 apartments distributed on 10 three-story buildings. The complex was initially built to relocate poor families that are currently living on the banks of the Matanza-Riachuelo river as part of a plan to cleanse the river’s basin.
The measure by Minister of Defence, Nilda Garre is an attempt to pour cold water into the nowadays situation. In this manner she wants to prevent the situation of December last year, concerning the footage of the American Indian Park and Alvarado Club where the city’s government had come to ask immediate eviction without prior negotiations.
Minister of Justice and Human Rights Julio Alak, stripped the government’s strategy: “We are facing a collective encroachment and competition belongs to the Metropolitan Court and misdemeanours.” Alak emphasised that the solution must be a social one.
The Court upheld his decision and Federal Police officers are still surrounding the compound of the Buenos Aires Flores district, waiting to enter.
Mayor of Buenos Aires Mauricio Macri was back to the controversy with the federal government, saying in a press conference: “This method (to make buildings) is the same as December in the American Indian Park. This is a method that must be stopped, otherwise the message is that using violence and breaking the law has its rewards and that can not be. ”
This morning, chief of the cabinet, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta launched a review for elevation to the national Government officials. He recalled that the Metropolitan police is only presented in a few neighbourhoods in the city and therefore the responsibility for security nowadays security in Buenos Aires should be the Federal Police.
However, the Security Department stressed that the idea is to vacate the premises by discussion and not repression. “Someone can not take anything in return, for occupying a public space. Tomorrow they can occupy the whole city, ” Larreta concluded.
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