Supreme Court Restores Limits on Foreign Land Ownership
The ruling keeps the 15% limit in place while judges weigh claims that scrapping it could harm natural resources and indigenous rights.
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The Court exposed a rapid turn, after its first ruling, and the limits to the sale of land to foreigners remain for now. The Executive reverses with its initial position, to attend to its allies and face an opposition advance. And Congress should finally settle the issue.
“We must continue to mobilize ourselves, because this resolution is transitory, not definitive. We must try to ensure that the entire UND is repealed on October 15,” said Magdalena Odarda, rionegrina legislator and advocate of the claims before the Court by the Land Law in Argentina.
The highest court suspends the repeal of the Land Law ten days after having ruled otherwise.
The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation issued a new ruling on the repeal of the Land Law. Ten days ago it had overturned the ruling that declared
In Argentina, the percentage of rural land in the hands of foreigners cannot exceed 15% of the country, with limits also at the provincial and municipal levels, according to a 2011 law. Shortly after assuming in 2023, the Argentine president, Javier Milei, repealed that law by decree. But a court stopped that decision in March 2024, in response to a demand from a centre of ex-combatants of the Malvinas war. Ten days ago, the Argentine Supreme Co…
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