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Argentina’s workers’ unions protested Thursday outside Congress against the private property inviolability bill under Senate debate, denouncing eviction provisions and the repeal of native people’s land rights.
The massive protest took place in the vicinity of the National Congress in Buenos Aires City, proceeding despite the government of Javier Milei withdrawing the controversial chapter on the foreignization of rural lands from the “Inviolability of the Private Property” bill late yesterday afternoon.
The ruling party retreated due to intense social pressure and a lack of legislative consensus to guarantee a quorum in the Senate.
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Social and union sectors warned that the remaining text of the bill still constitutes a direct attack on housing, communal, and ecological rights. Meanwhile, the Senate resumed its fourth interim procedure last month and began this Thursday to deal, for the fifth time, with the project of inviolability of private property.
The bill authorizes rapid evictions for tenants who fall behind on rent, eliminates community land ownership for native people, repeals the Fire Management Law and strips the state of expropriation powers. Although the government removed the chapter on land sales to foreigners after public criticism, organizers maintained the call to mobilize.
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Ecological Destruction Incentivized
A major point of concern for environmentalists and native organizations is the proposed modification of the Fire Management Law. The government seeks to eliminate or drastically reduce the current 30-year ban on changing land use in areas devastated by wildfires.
Environmental groups denounce that this deregulation serves as a direct incentive for intentional forest fires. By removing protective barriers, real estate developers and intensive agricultural enterprises can immediately convert burned native forests and wetlands into lucrative projects. Activists warned that this policy commercializes ecological destruction, prioritizing financial gain over biodiversity.
Furthermore, the bill targets communal land ownership by repealing historic protective regulations. This move leaves rural and indigenous communities vulnerable to local landowners and multinational extractivist corporations, threatening their ancestral territories and cultural survival.
Brutality of Quick Evictions
In urban areas, the primary focus of social conflict is the institutionalization of express evictions. The proposed legal reform critically shortens judicial deadlines. It establishes that after a non-payment notice of just 10 days, property owners can immediately activate judicial channels and proceed with forced evictions utilizing the public forces.
Tenant organizations denounce that this regulation completely eliminates contractual equity and removes mandatory mediation processes. Under the current economic crisis and deregulated rental market, this measure threatens to leave thousands of working-class families in homelessness in record time.
The mobilization of this Thursday marks the continuation of an organized plan of resistance against structural reforms that strip the working class of historical protections.
Social and political organizations noted that removing the foreign land sales chapter was a tactical retreat by the government, but the core of the neoliberal project remains intact. The social movements vowed to sustain their pressure on the Senate to reject the entire initiative, arguing that housing and environmental stability cannot be sacrificed for corporate interests.
The coordinated protests are expected to expand in the coming weeks as unions consolidate their opposition to the government’s economic agenda.
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