Only a company Salteña appeared to the tender to lift the 200 -meter long metal fence, which will cost $ 36 million. “They do not make the Senate a preventive machine,” said the governor, requesting that designations be approved in federal justice.
The construction of the spike wire fence in the municipality of Aguas Blancas, on the border border between the province of Salta and Bolivia, already has a company that will be responsible for its construction and amount assigned for the work. Meanwhile, the governor Gustavo Sáenz He claimed that he grows the number of federal prosecutors in his province, within the framework of the Güemes Security Plan, which seeks to block the admission of drugs to Argentina. In that context, the Government determined that the security portfolio that presides Patricia Bullrich It is called the Ministry of National Security, to expand its powers in border areas.
Last Tuesday, at the municipal headquarters of White waters The envelope of the only company that was presented to the tender for the construction of a 200 -meter perimeter fence was opened, between the Bus Terminal and the offices of the National Migration Directorate, which is part of the Güemes plan to strengthen immigration control in the area. Strictly speaking, the tender was under the simple award system (No. 02/25), which was convened by the Ministry of Government, Public Works and Services. The Salteña company “Sánchez Osadcia Pablo Esteban” was the only bidder to execute the works, whose official budget is $ 36,121,505 pesos, which will be solved with funds from the nation.
In that same act, the Blancas Aguas Activo Commissioner, Adrián ZigaránHe explained that the fence will be standard Olympic type and will have Gillette type spikes wires, used in high security facilities. “The main objective of this work is to discourage illegal crosses and ensure that all people register their entry or exit of the country through the official channels of the Migration Directorate,” he said. The work, which represents 0.027% of the total border (742 kilometers), would be awarded in the next few days and is expected to be built in 60 calendar days, so it would be completed in April, according to the municipality.
Meanwhile, more critical voices join against metal fence between the two countries. “Two hundred meters of wiring on a border with Bolivia that is more than 750 kilometers, in the San Martín department, it seems to me a teased,” he said Franco GaleanoPresident of the Tartagal Entrepreneurs Center, a city that is 170 kilometers from white water. “I do not believe that 200 meters of wiring solve the theme of the border, it is extremely absurd because there are other income points that are not properly monitored.”he said during an interview. As agreed, the Chamber of Commerce of the city of Oran also warned that the construction of the spike wire will not end the smuggling. Its headline, Ariel Zablouk, asked to think about the people who work daily with the transport of merchandise.
Judges and Prosecutor’s claim
While the only one on white waters opened for the construction of the fence, the Governor of Salta liked Sáenz met with Eduardo CasalAttorney General of the Nation, to whom he asked that he manage a greater presence of federal prosecutors in Salta to strengthen the Güemes Plan, against the increase in the interventions of the security forces. “More police operations mean more investigations and hearings, which generates the need for the designation of more prosecutors to face these cases with greater speed and to provide our people with rapid answers to insecurity issues,” Sáenz said at the meeting.
In that same direction, the Salteño president used his account in X to criticize the Senate for the lack of designation in federal justice positions and asked its members to deal with Federal judges and prosecutors Already competed, who expect agreement of the upper house to be designated in these positions. “If judges are missing, sentences are missing, there are no convictions. If fiscal, investigations and criminals are missing unfortunately are still free,” he said. “They do not turn the Senate into a preventive machine,” he closed.
Bullrich, armored
Simultaneously with the opening of envelopes and Sáenz’s meeting with Casal, the Government published in the Official Gazette the decision that the Security portfolio, by Patricia Bullrichbecome Ministry of National Security, which expands the scope of the agency.
“That the designation of the National Security is more appropriate to the functions developed Fundamental for the development of the life projects of each individual, as well as the progress of the nation as a whole, “says Decree 58/2025.
Thus, the scope of the functions Ministry of National Security deepens in terms of internal security, fight against crime, border control, airport security and fire management, among others.
Source: Ambito
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