The facts investigated are due to the irregular construction of a school in Caspalá, 4,000 meters above sea level, on an archaeological site.
The federal prosecutor of Jujuy, Lucía Orsetti, charged six former public officials from the administration of former governor Gerardo Morales for fraud against the public administration and the use of false public documents created by different areas of the Ministry of Education, for the construction of the Secondary School. No. 57 in the Caspalá town. The decision occurs in the case why the Government of Jujuy must restore the property it took and repair the damage it caused to another private property, which belongs to the inhabitants of the town that is located 4,000 meters above sea level, for advance the rights of the community to preserve their ancestral customs, as Ámbito told it.
The representative of the Public Prosecutor’s Office (MPF) explained that these “maneuvers” caused damage of more than $43 million to the national State, which provided the funds for the works that began and could not be completed because the place designated to build the establishment educational was an archaeological site protected by provincial and federal laws, the National Constitution and international conventions. According to the anthropologist Gustavo Ontiveroson private property, occupied by the Jujuy State to build the destroyed soccer field, as a repair, the machines “destroyed part of four or five underground structures that could be tombs or circular silos.” “In addition, ancient archaeological platform structures, some pre-Hispanic, were destroyed,” he added.
The judge of guarantees No. 2 of San Salvador de Jujuy, Carina Inés Gregoraschukgave rise to the accusation made by the federal prosecutor of Jujuy, Lucía Orsetti, about the former provincial Minister of Education, Maria Teresa Bovi; the head of the Secretariat of Educational Infrastructure, architect María Victoria Martínez Fascioand the Project Director of the Infrastructure Secretariat of that portfolio, architect José Raúl Torrejón. Also for the legal advisor of that ministry, Maria Cecilia Rotondo; the former legal advisor of the Jujuy State Prosecutor’s Office, Diego Montenovi; and the former municipal commissioner of Caspalá, Apaza Nativity.
The maneuvers under investigation occurred when the provincial government advanced with the school works on the Caspalá soccer field, the only level land in the town, located 4,000 meters above sea level, which constitutes part of the identity cultural heritage, and on a private property with underground archaeological sites.
These episodes generated protests from the Kolla community that were repressed, with wide repercussions in the national media, because they were a town of 400 inhabitants that was recognized in 2021 by the World Tourism Organization as one of the “best destinations in the world”, for its tranquility, rural and community lifestyle. The application had been managed by the management of former governor Morales in coordination with former commissioner Apaza, without the knowledge of the community itself, a fact that was known when the conflict occurred.
The brutal repression led to the advancement of a judicial case in the federal jurisdiction, within the framework of which last month a reparation agreement was reached in which the provincial government, through the State Prosecutor’s Office, committed to withdraw from the properties. busy and return to the pre-existing state of affairs.
In what was agreedthe Jujuy government committed to reestablish the pre-existing conditions at the beginning of the conflict, both on the soccer field and on the private property, within 30 business days. It was clarified that this result does not extinguish the criminal actions for the damages caused, against the state officials who participated in the entire process, from former governor Morales and ministry officials, to the then commissioner.
In the case of former commissioner Apaza, he was accused of failure to comply with the duties under his charge, as the author, for not having complied with the provincial law of cultural and natural heritage of the province of Jujuy, which provides that among its obligations is to call for popular consultation regarding decisions that affect cultural heritage and to give intervention to the highest culture authority dependent on the provincial Executive Branch. He was also charged with defrauding the public administration, as a necessary participant.
a paradise
Caspalá is located in the department of Valle Grande, 10 kilometers west of Santa Ana and 240 kilometers from San Salvador de Jujuy and the town is in the middle of a mountain range. From San Salvador de Jujuy you access Caspalá via provincial route 73 and before reaching the town you travel two snail-shaped slopes.
Main attractions:
- Santa Rosa de Lima Church, a chapel built in the 1840s.
- The Old Town, an archaeological site of great value to know.
- Qhapaq Ñam, Inca Trail, 10 kilometers from Caspalá.
- The El Antiguito viewpoint, which presents views and ancient buildings made of mud and stones.
- Casa Mocha Waterfall.
Source: Ambito
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