A city of the Argentine province of Salta on Monday launched a tender to install a 200 meter wire on its border with Boliviawith the aim of containing illegal people and the smugglingwhich generated “concern” in the neighboring country.
“We were requested to build a linear wire (…) to prevent people from arriving in the town without migrations,” Miter’s Radio Miter told the auditor of the city of Aguas Blancas, Adrián Zigaran, which replaces the mayor while facing an accusation for hindering a criminal investigation.
Zigaran confirmed an announcement he had made last Friday in dialogue with the local Nuevo Diario de Salta media, and that generated a stir in Bolivian diplomacy.
The Bolivia Foreign Ministry expressed Sunday in a statement its “concern” against the announcement and said that border issues should be discussed by bilateral dialogue mechanisms since “any unilateral measure can affect the good neighborhood and peaceful coexistence between brothers peoples.”
The construction of the fence is part of the “Güemes Plan”, which the government of the Argentine President, Javier Milei, launched in December last year to “combat federal crimes” such as drug trafficking at the border of Salta (north), focused on The two most important border cities, Aguas Blancas and Oran, located about 1,600 kilometers from Buenos Aires.
Two and a half meters high, it will travel the journey between the migration office and the bus terminal, which is in front of the beach of the Bermejo River, which divides Argentina in Bolivia and where, according to Zigaran, people cross illegally and towards this city of about 3,000 inhabitants.
The Bermejo River is within the so -called “Drug Route”, according to the Argentine Ministry of Security. Although it is also used by citizens who decide to buy cheapest goods in the Bolivian city of Bermejo, in front of Aguas Blancas, and then return to Argentina.
“Air conditioners, double door ice creamboards, high -end appliances, such as 10 trips per day, go in (the city of) Oran, which is 50 kilometers, and the truth is that they are breaking the commercial fabric of Oran and Norte Argentino For this lack of importation of illegal merchandise, ”said Zigarán.
Source: Gestion
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