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Strange Sale of Argentine Border Land Revealed

Buenos Aires, Dec 29 (Prensa Latina) The incredible story of the sale of
more than a million 200,000 (1.2 million) hectares (2.96 million acres)
of land including part of the Andes mountain range, started to be
revealed before the Argentinean Federal justice Wednesday.

Denouncing the operation was lawyer Julio Nando Quintar, on behalf of
the plaintiffs, who contend the sale of land was accomplished in
secret, and requested it should be declared null and void.

The sale, made between private entities, was made on November 19, 1985,
for an unusual value of 267,984 australes (Argentinean national
currency), something a little bit more than 200,000 dollars at that
time, or more than 15 cents the hectare.

More surprising are the points covered by this property of 1.288
million hectares in the department of Tinogasta, Argentinean province of
Catamarca. It comprises the international Paso de San Francisco, which
joins Argentina and Chile, the border control office of the National
Gendarmerie, the mountain peaks of Pissis (6,882 meters high); Ojos Del
Salado (6,879 meters) and Tres Cruces (6,130 meters), and a section of
an international railroad.

A federal judge, Pedro Navarro, is in charge of the investigation and
notified several state institutions, to verify validity of the
operation.

Among them, there are the Ministry of Defense, the Fishing Ministry, and
the National Gendarmerie, which should act as plaintiffs.

Judge Navarro proceeded to cut and remove the fences establishing the
limits of the land Tuesday, and he found that the owners, besides
turning the zone into a private zone with access forbidden, detoured
courses of rivers and streams to satisfy their projects for breeding
vicunas.

These waters went through salty grounds, got contaminated, and provoked
an ecological disaster to the region's agricultural workers, who
suffered great losses.

Members of the National Guard found skeletons and skins of vicunas,
which is a protected animal species by international agreements that
forbid their hunting or captivity, ratified by Argentina.

A brief comment by local newspaper Clarin said that although feudalism
is over in most of the world, in some Argentinean provinces exceptions
are extended as an epidemic.

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President: Negative Predictions about Argentina Failed

Buenos Aires, Dec 29 (Prensa Latina) President Nestor Kirchner asserted
that Argentina gave a true lecture to the people who had made negative
predictions about the South American nation's future.

In a speech in the Moreno locality, where the government provided
assistance and housing pensions, Kirchner said that calculations were
made on "how we will handle the country's situation."

We are giving a true lecture, and our hands, intellect and efforts will
build the future we deserve, stressed the statesman, recalling
Argentineans had recovered from the 2001 economic crisis, the worst in
their history.

Kirchner congratulated the government for living up to the promise of
increasing retirees' pensions.

"The Argentina where pensions were like begging is coming to an end,"
the South American president maintained.

He harshly criticized "leaders who speaking are the best of the world
but are a true shame when they sit at their desks," and predicted a much
better 2005 for Argentineans, and the recovery of domestic economy.

We will wage the necessary wars and battles so that Argentina, day by
day, becomes a better place to live, he concluded.

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