Llego a mi este articulo, que salio publicado en un diario español, y a medida que iba leyendolo, si bien no me sorprendio del todo, si me dejaron perplejo algunas de las afirmaciones y reacciones de algunos de los protagonistas del articulo.
Resulta que las tierras tienen precios de saldo por que nadie se ocupa de ellas, nadie las quiere trabajar, ...pero... ¡¡¡ ah compañero !!!....cuando empiezan a comprarlas los extranjeros, ahi si recien empiezan a tomar importancia.
Esto no es propio unicamente Argentina, here in Uruguay I've also heard statements about trying to ban the purchase of land by foreigners.
I ask you, 99% of Uruguayans and Argentines who descend fuck?. If citizens do not want to work or want to sell, because you can not buy someone out?
This is like the dog in the manger .... or eat or stop eating .... ...
Alarm in Buenos Aires to the massive foreign purchases of land which includes a similar size to half of Spain.
JORGE MARIRRODRIGA - Buenos Aires - 05/02/2007
In the province of Mendoza rich vineyards can be purchased for 60,000 euros hectárea.Los Benetton brothers have in Argentina land equivalent to the province of Valencia some areas of Argentina itself. Companies, organizations or private individuals billionaires have set their sights on one of the largest countries in the world, offering the possibility of buying from huge moorland to fertile vineyards, through the vagaries of nature or farmland near the capital. The South American country is experiencing a mad rush for land sales, both public and private, which, according to researchers, social and political organizations, affects about 300,000 square kilometers, more than half the size of Spain.
The lack of federal legislation on the subject has accelerated a process of the sale, although it has been normal throughout the history of Argentina, has raised cries of alarm that ranging from media to the Catholic Church. "In Santiago del Estero and Chaco [provinces north of the country] hectare worth the worth a hamburger, "complains Andrew Kliphhan, co-author of Land SA, a three-year investigation with Daniel Enz shows the uncontrolled process of selling land living Argentina." There are 30 bills to regulate, either in Parliament federal or provincial, but they are all stuck in the drawer, "he adds.
Kliphhan warns that large buyers are companies in which nothing is known and whose headquarters are located in offshore fiscales.Al least 10% of the country is already in foreign hands, as indicated, citing as its source the Argentine Ministry of Defense, Gonzalo Sanchez, author of The Patagonia Sold.
In fact, the country's largest owner is a family group, multinational Italian Fashion: the Benetton brothers, who own a total of about 10,000 square kilometers, a figure that placed on the 2,780,000 square kilometers of Argentina may not represent much, but moved on the map of Spain would have entirely the province of Valencia or Asturias. Behind them, in the list of five families are placed megapropietarios traditional Argentine, but get more attention from media magnates other foreigners, especially Americans, who have put their eyes and their dollars into the vast lands of Patagonia.
The Benetton, which began buying acres in Argentina in the nineties, not only are the biggest landowners in Argentina, but also the largest producer of Patagonian lamb (and wool) of country. Also, engage in reforestation, with varieties of trees whose wood is used then in the manufacture of furniture. Although they have had legal problems with indigenous communities over the possession of some of their plots of land are considered part of the category of productive owners.
lies in another plane multimillionaire Douglas Tompkins, who as head of the Conservation Land Trust is in possession of some 4,500 square kilometers as the province of Pontevedra, "of which 20% is productive and the rest is part of a personal project of nature conservation, which has raised controversy in Chile as their possessions, declared by the State Nature Sanctuary, publicly accessible but privately-control virtually divided the Andean country in half.
In Argentina, Tompkins, with good connection with the Kirchner couple has bought and then donated the State large tracts of land are subject to nature reserves. Billionaire environmentalist carefully avoids buying land public property-tax-to avoid possible complaints from neighborhood groups and government buildings, but has had problems steps to close neighborhood.
In a third category of large foreign owners would be located those who buy land for personal enjoyment. The most noteworthy are the vice president of AOL / Time Warner and founder of CNN, the Ted Turner, and Joseph Lewis, the sixth richest man in the UK, with businesses around the world and a few quirks such as team Premier League Tottenham Hotspur.
"Historically, Argentina has been engaged sell their land, but the problem is that they are selling land not be sold, "said Gonzalo Sanchez, who denounces the lack of control over public land, ie, those in public ownership on which each province is ie, each governor decides whether and how to sell. The final bill was introduced regularization year and half ago by Rep. José María Díaz Bancalari Peronist, but even he was admitted to parliamentary procedure.
But beyond the flashy names, thousands of investors around the world have set their sights on Argentina, and here are mixed commercial interests, personal dreams and speculation. The province of Mendoza, just over 1,000 miles west of Buenos Aires on the border with Chile, is a good example. Mendoza is characterized by a combination of soil and climate for growing exceptional grapes.
In recent years, large groups French wine, English and Italians are acquiring land and wineries as part of its business expansion strategy. And so are making private citizens, from Argentina and aliens, encouraged by the possibility of realizing the dream of owning a vineyard to cost around 60,000 euros per hectare planted, producing grapes that can then be sold to various cooperatives. But it is also producing a speculative investment encouraged by the projected rise in the price of land.
The Catholic Church has entered the scene with the publication a few months ago a document entitled A land for all, in which he denounced the concentration of productive land and requested a state policy for a problem that affects communities, field workers and city dwellers.
Meanwhile, in the wake of the business, web pages try to catch unwary to claim sales of thousands of acres in Patagonia. "It's a scam. In stores now handle large estate in Argentina," says Andrew Kliphhan, for whom one of the most worrying aspects is the lack of transparency when it comes to knowing who actually own the land.
- With 200,000 euros, which is to cost an apartment in Spain on average, would buy 33,000 hectares of arid land, 1,100 miles north Buenos Aires, suitable for livestock and olive trees. There are 3.3 people per square kilometer.
- Chubut (Patagonia). A 11.5 euros per hectare. In total, 17,400 hectares suitable only for sheep farming. Weather very cold and windy, with 1.8 inhabitants per square kilometer. Located 1,450 kilometers south of Buenos Aires .-
- Province of Buenos Aires. At about $ 1,000 an acre, could buy 200 acres for livestock production and cereal agriculture.
- Mendoza. A $ 10,000 per hectare of unplanted vineyard. It could buy 20 hectares. Continental climate, with high temperatures in summer and very cold in winter.
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