Conferencia de Prensa #3 | Adrian Ravier - 14.07.2026
In a Nutshell
El proyecto de ley busca restaurar la protección constitucional de la propiedad privada mediante reformas en expropiaciones, desalojos, compra de tierras rurales por extranjeros, ley de manejo del fuego y modernización del sistema registral. Argentina alcanzó récords de producción agrícola en 2025-2026 con 163 millones de toneladas entre los seis cultivos principales, impulsados por la eliminación de restricciones y la normalización económica. Se destacan también la inauguración del primer laboratorio de bioseguridad nivel 4 de Latinoamérica y la ampliación de cursos gratuitos de capacitación laboral.
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Article 17 of the Argentine Constitution establishes that property is inviolable and no inhabitant can be deprived of it except by virtue of a sentence founded in law. Expropriation for public utility must be certified by law and previously indemnified. Confiscation of goods is permanently eliminated from the Argentine Penal Code. The economic and rent system states that without security there is no capital, without capital there is no work, without work there is no wealth. The speaker wants Argentines to work in the Argentine South but also wants to invite foreigners to invest, promoting greater production, employment generation, and dynamism to recover growth.
The Constitutional Foundation of the Republic consecrated and defended property as an inalienable right. The golden age of Argentine history was characterized by complete fulfillment of the inviolability of private property through the agro-export model that extended for 60 years, when Argentina held a leading place in the world as the granary of the world. Private property and contracts were respected, and immigrants were attracted, competing with the United States for European immigrants who chose Argentina.
The consensus began to break in 1922 when the Supreme Court ruled in the Ercolano against Lenteri case from Ranjau. The court determined that a law setting a maximum price on rents was constitutional, establishing that for public needs, private property could be violated. Since the break of the promise, Argentines have lived with contracts that ceased to be fully reliable and with private property increasingly vulnerable to state intervention. This legal insecurity reduced investment and opportunities for growth and employment that other countries took advantage of.
At the end of convertibility, contracts were broken with asymmetric pricing, converting dollars deposited by Argentines in banks into pesos. When those Argentines wanted to buy back dollars, they had to do so at an exchange rate that had tripled. Half of Argentines' dollar deposits were effectively taken, leading many Argentines to keep money outside the banking system rather than deposited in banks.
The AFJP system was nationalized, taking ownership of individual savings accounts that people had without consent. The economic freedom index shows protection of property rights in Argentina at 41 points, below the world average of 52. Even with improvement this year, Argentina remains below the planetary average. This is the inheritance of decades of violations.
A set of laws still flagrantly contradict the spirit of the 1853 Constitution. The private property package the Senate will treat on Thursday seeks to restore that constitutional right. The project is divided into five chapters.
Argentina has an international record with the CIADI, the World Bank's court resolving demands of foreign investors against states. Argentina is the second country with the most complaints against the CIADI on the planet, with Venezuela recently taking first place. Argentina accumulated 65 cases as a defense state. In 2025, Venezuela surpassed with 67 cases. Each demand translates into millionaire trials paid by Argentines through taxes.
The current expropriation law is obsolete, leaving legal voids, gray areas, and unclear rules of play. The reform proposes changes to Law 21.499 with a rector principle to prevent state abuse of expropriation. The project proposes more demanding definitions of public utility, requiring the purpose to be specifically and concretely identified and demonstrating that expropriation is ideal, necessary, and proportional. If an alternative exists that does not involve removing someone from property, the state is forced to take it.
Compensation must ensure the expropriated receives full compensation for the value of their property. Evaluation takes into account the date prior to any act or state announcement linked to expropriation, preventing state decisions from altering property value. The amount is updated through IPC so inflation does not reduce real compensation value. Ceasing profit is recognized when it is a direct consequence of expropriation and properly accredited.
Recovering a property taken can take years, and a property right that takes years to be valid is a suspended right. Victims include pensioners living on rent, families who bought houses with mortgage loans, and tenants. The risk of usurpation discourages housing supply and encourages higher rents. Legal insecurity is always paid by those who comply with the law.
Evictions are currently carried out by ordinary means, taking on average more than three years to obtain a firm sentence. Occupant evictions without title take the longest. With the new law, evictions will be carried out by a very sumptuous trial. The most important procedure contemplated in the process code reduces average conflict resolution from years to months.
New mechanisms for judicial identification of property will be allowed to be carried out more quickly when numbering has been withdrawn or altered. The law reduces bureaucracy for owners requesting precautionary measures to protect property while the judge resolves the case.
The 2011 law de facto criminalized foreign land purchases, contradicting the Constitution's recognition of equal civil rights for nationals and foreigners and promotion of immigration for work, investment, and production. The law set general and arbitrary stops, including no more than 1,000 hectares in Sonia Núcleo, which does nothing to ensure national sovereignty but prevents productive development.
Million-dollar projects, especially in the industrial forest sector in Nea, Cuyo, and Patagonia provinces, cannot be carried out due to these obstacles. The reform proposes to raise general restrictions on rural land purchases by foreigners. Foreign states, their companies, and controlled societies currently can buy up to 1,000 hectares freely. The new law requires specific authorization, and attempts to dilute controls through smuggling will be considered illicit simulation.
The protection of native forests is not touched, and the forest law remains exactly the same. What changes is the 2020 reform promoted by Máximo Kirchner, which extended restrictions on agricultural fields and planted forests. The current regime punishes the producer twice when they are victims of fire. First, the producer suffers the fire itself, losing infrastructure, resources, and productive capacity. Then the state paralyzes the field for 30 or 60 years, even if the fire was accidental or caused by a third party. This reduces property value, makes financing difficult, and makes productive activity unviable.
The regulation maintains sanctions for intentional fires set for real estate business or illegal soil use alteration, but that sanction should not fall automatically on the innocent producer.
Each province manages its own registration with very different efficiency levels. Slow procedures hinder operations, discourage investment, and hinder credit access. The law promotes digitalization of the system, sets maximum deadlines, and creates a unique federal window allowing access to registration information from a single portal while respecting provincial register autonomy.
All unregulated work and economic normalization is bearing fruit. The Soja campaign 2025-2026 closes as one of the best in seven years with production reaching 49.7 million tons, placing it as the second best Soja campaign in the last seven years. Production of main crops in 2025-2026 aims to reach maximum.
Four absolute records were achieved: 27.8 million tons of wheat, estimated 70 million tons for the corn campaign, 7.4 million tons of sunflower, and 5.6 million tons of barley. Four of the six main crops are absolute records. Adding sorghum at 2.9 million tons, the six crops total 163 million tons in 2025-2026.
The sorghum had the best yield in the last seven seasons. Wheat yield jumped 41% compared to the previous campaign and is at its maximum. During current management, sanitary and fertilizer imports for sorghum were removed. Importation of agricultural machinery was facilitated, helping reduce operating costs. Other measures include reduction of retention and unification of exchange type.
The Malbran Institute has operated for 110 years as one of the most important scientific and technological organizations in the fight against epidemics and production of biological inputs. The Institute was fundamental in the fight against yellow fever in the early 20th century until the COVID-19 pandemic when in April 2020 its scientists detected the virus genome to know what strains circulated. It has been the training and work center of two of the three Nobel Prize winners in science: Bernardo Houssay and Cesar Milstein. It currently coordinates more than 1,400 institutions throughout the country and performs more than 200,000 laboratory analyses per year through its institutes.
The refurbished disease center transmitted by food by Dr. Viviana Molina had an investment of 295 million pesos. Previously laboratories were dispersed. This work allowed complete refurbishment so technical teams work in the same space favoring interdisciplinary work to detect outbreaks, characterize microorganisms, and conduct strategic research for prevention and control of diseases transmitted by food and contaminated water such as listeriosis, uremic-emolytic syndrome, and cholera.
The first biosecurity laboratory level 4 in Latin America was completed, the highest international category in biological safety. This laboratory allows manipulation of high-risk pathogens, investigation of antivirals and vaccines, and response to national and international health emergencies. The previous management claimed to have inaugurated it, but it was an empty shell, a building without equipment that never worked. Implementation was possible thanks to investment from this government.
The Human Capital Ministry expands training proposals through courses dictated face-to-face and free at the Human Capital Training Center in the Porteño neighborhood of La Paternal. Access is allowed to the wide variety of courses at the center, courses provided in National Institutes of Technological Education that depend on INET in all provinces, and virtual courses available from anywhere in the country.
The course offer is designed based on real job demand. Courses offered include plumbing, home electricity, installation and repair of air conditioning, repair of ladders, carpentry, gas installations, solar panel installations, drone operation, excavator operation, maintenance of buildings, and customer care, among many others.
Companies and organizations conducting training courses include Metro Gas, Ministry of Defense, Quilmes, Nestré, AMIA, Arcos Dorados, YPF, and FECOVA.
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