Defense Minister, Jorge Taiana yesterday formalized the arrival of Argentine Army troops in Rosario to advance the work of urbanization in popular neighborhoods. President Alberto Fernandez He had announced it on March 7 in a recorded message from the Quinta de Olivos, in which he anticipated the arrival of federal forces in the city of Santa Fe to “put an end to the criminal violence of hitmen merchants of death”. Before she had spoken with the governor Omar Perotti and the mayor Paul Javkin.
At the beginning of April some versions affirmed that some “logistical issues and the lack of planning of the tasks to be carried out” prevented the announcement made by the head of state from coming to fruition. However, days after these rumors, the official, together with the Minister of Social Development, Victoria Toulouse Peaceand Javkinled the signing of agreements for the construction and conditioning of roads and the extension of the drinking water network that It will benefit 1,456 families from the “Tío Rolo” neighborhood.
The works will be in charge of the Arm of Army Engineers, who have extensive experience in community support tasks.
President Fernández’s decision to send more unarmed gendarmes and soldiers to develop neglected neighborhoods came after an escalation of violence, which included a shooting attack on the supermarket belonging to the family of Antonella Roccuzzowife Lionel Messi, the murder of a 12-year-old boy and a revolt in the “Los Pumitas” neighborhood against drug traffickers in the area. In his message, which had negative repercussions, the head of state had declared that “something will have to be done” for the people of Rosario “because they are Argentines.”
“Rosario is much more than the problems she is going through today and we know she will get ahead. We are going to put an end to the criminal violence of hit men who are merchants of death. No criminal organization or mafia network can fight against the force of a people united in defense of their land and their community life”, concluded Alberto Fernández.
Yesterday, after signing the agreements between the Rosario mayor and the Army, Taiana asserted that: “This task is very important because it reinforces the presence of the State, working together with the Ministry of Social Development to come up with concrete actions,” said the defense holder.
The minister also explained that: “The actions will be carried out within the framework of the specific agreement for the implementation of a project with financing from the fund for socio-urban integration of popular neighborhoods ReNaBaP (National Registry of Popular Neighborhoods).” This registry is in charge of the Socio-Urban Integration Secretariat, which, within the social portfolio, is commanded by fernanda minoa leader of the Excluded Workers Movement (MTE), whose leader is John Grabois.
as far as he could tell infobae, the agreements signed between the Army and the Municipality provide for the construction of roads and demarcation in order to facilitate communication between two neighborhoods of the city. This task will be carried out jointly with the personnel of the department of Public Works of the municipality of Rosario and will have an extension of three hundred and sixty meters.
Another of the works that the area of Army engineers will carry out will be the extension of the drinking water network, for which trenching and placement of water pipes will be carried out for the safe supply to the population, which will have an extension of approximately 2000 meters. Likewise, the leveling, cleaning and improvement of one of the roads in the “Tío Rolo” neighborhood will be carried out.
The staff of the 601 Engineers Group together with technicians from the municipality of Rosario they had already done topographical work on the spot, although they had not been advertised.
The military -who will be unarmed- and the municipal employees who will participate in the urbanization works will be accompanied by the Federal Security Forces, such as the Gendarmerie.
These tasks carried out by the Argentine Army occur within the framework of the subsidiary missions of the Armed Forces established both in decrees 1691/2006 and 457/2021, which establish, among others, the mission of “provide support to the national community”. The Arm of Engineers of the Army, according to Law 20,459, have the power to take charge, totally or partially, of the project, direction and execution of works of public good.
The battalion has high-performance means such as bulldozers, motor graders and vibro-compacting rollers to carry out works such as soil movement and road improvement.
This group is already participating in tasks similar to those that it will now carry out in the convulsed city of Rosario, such as, for example, in Los Hornos, in La Plata and in what was the mega takeover of the former Glider Club that the national government, together with the from the province of Buenos Aires decided to urbanize to avoid the eviction of some three thousand people who had usurped those federal lands.
“The three agreements that were signed have to do with the water connection, street access and accessibility to a neighborhood that is in the extreme southwest of the city,” explained Mayor Javkin and recalled that: “These actions will result in an improvement immediately of the living conditions”.
After the signing of the agreements, Tolosa Paz affirmed: “Today Rosario has an enormous need to find a truly united policy to be able to provide solutions to the problems that their neighbors have. This is what the President of the Nation asks of us and we are very grateful to the Arm of Army Engineers and to the minister who, when we called him, understood that we had to act quickly”.
consulted by infobaethe Minister of Defense assured: “We are carrying out these agreements in other areas of the country, as we do in the province of Salta, where we are distributing drinking water to the Wichi community or in the Buenos Aires town of Los Hornos, where we are collaborating in the improvement of the neighborhood and we want to continue replicating it in more places in the country”.
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