The senator for Cabildo Abierto, Guido Manini Ríos; his wife, the Minister of Housing, Irene Moreira; and her father, Roque Moreira, are settlers who own a field in Artigas, according to the National Institute of Colonization (INC), which presented a new report on Wednesday.
The organization’s Lawyers’ Chamber received this Wednesday the document that confirms what two previous studies say, which maintain that the senator and his family manage and exploit nearly 4,350 hectares in the town of Yacaré Cururú, of which 2,856 are reached by the Colonization Law, created in 1948.
Last March, the first study of the INC Inspection had appeared which said the same thing: that Manini Ríos, Irene Moreira and Roque Moreira are landowners in the department of Artigas. That document asserted that these three people are settlers, although none of the three resides on said lands and would not qualify for such status. Based on this opinion, the INC Board decided to refer the file to the Legal Department to decide whether to adopt a series of measures proposed by the Official Inspection, including asking Manini Ríos, his wife, and his father-in-law for the title deeds of the fractions reached by the Colonization Law, as published on the occasion Search.
The second analysis came in June, when the Legal Counsel ratified the status of settlers of those mentioned. And now, the third instance points in the same direction, but the Board of Directors will not make any decision or carry out concrete actions until external legal advice, requested from Horadio de Brum, a member of the Agrarian Law Chair at the Universidad Católica del Uruguay joins the growing amount of evidence, in order to have “broad legal support.”
