October 4, 2024, 11:14 PM
October 4, 2024, 11:14 PM
The Minister of Security of Argentina, Patricia Bullrich, has instructed the National Gendarmerie of the neighboring country initiate an investigation against Bolivians who supposedly invaded lands of the General Mosconi municipality, in the Salta province.
The complaint was made by the Ava Guaraní people and band producers from the Río Grande de Tarija, on the Argentine side, against the Bolivian Horacio Cruz Castro, leader of the Bermejeños sugar cane growers, according to Argentine media.
Argentine residents denounce that Bermeja producers They have cleared 2,500 hectares of riverine forests of General Mosconi to plant cane and then cross into Bolivia, in contraband, some 150,000 tons of sugar cane.
Furthermore, the Ava Guaraní point out that Horacio Cruz Castro incited his group of producers to threaten children with machetes and weapons and women of this indigenous people, according to the neighboring country’s newspaper La Derecha.
Given these complaints, Minister Patricia Bullrich ordered the National Gendarmerie carry out an inspection in the General Mosconi municipality, work that was done this Friday.
Bullrich published a report from the Gendarmerie on his social networks stating that sugar cane plantations were found in the area, but it is clarified that it has not been possible to establish whether they are in Argentine or Bolivian territory.
The Argentine gendarmes point out that the flooding of the Grande de Tarija River destroyed the landmarks of the borders of the two countries, Therefore, support has been requested from the Border Commission to restore the border markers that disappeared.
