The National Senator of Tierra del Fuego, Pablo Daniel Blanco, presented today a request for information to request information from the National Government about the following issues related to the journalistic report that the radar installed in Tolhuin (Province of Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica and South Atlantic Islands) belonging to the company LeoLabs Argentina SRL, will finally be authorized to operate by the national authorities under the argument that it is American property and cannot be used for military purposes.
Blanco requests to know: under which legal status it will operate, since the Provincial Inspection of Justice of Tierra del Fuego initiated the process of dissolving the company LeoLabs Argentina SRL due to the "supervening impossibility of fulfilling its corporate purpose"; which national authority will grant recognition to the aforementioned legal status; under which jurisdiction the radar will operate (national, provincial or mixed); what specific purpose will the radar serve; whether or not it will fulfill military intelligence functions at the service of the nation or nations with which the company reaches commercial or cooperation agreements; if the national government is in a position to deny the information provided by the company Leolabs INC itself in the sense that it had reached an agreement with England for the radar to supply it with sensitive information of a military nature.
Blanco requests that, among other detailed questions in the project, the following be explained: in the event that the national government finally authorizes its operation: which department will control its actions, who will supervise it and what degree of interference the Argentine State will have over it; in the event that permission to operate is granted, provide a detailed report that supports such a decision from a technical, military, diplomatic and geopolitical point of view.
"This news goes decidedly against what was expressed by the company Leolabs itself, which announced two months ago an agreement with the British government so that the aforementioned radar can provide strategic information of this nature," said the senator from Tierra del Fuego.
"It turns out that at the very moment when the judicial authorities of Tierra del Fuego are granting a request to disqualify the company in order to remove its legal status, the national government is reportedly announcing that the radar installed in the heart of Tierra del Fuego is here to stay," said Blanco.
“From day one I was a staunch opponent of the installation of foreign satellite technology in national territory without any controls or supervision by the state, especially when it can be used for military intelligence purposes and responds to interests that usurped Malvinas.”
“Everything that has happened around this radar has been a faithful reflection of the disaster that our country has become in terms of foreign policy: the previous government allowed it to be installed with the consent of President Alberto Fernández and the complicity of the governor of Tierra del Fuego; now the current government, clearly bent on trying to please North American and English interests, wants everything to continue as if nothing had happened. Meanwhile, the people of Tierra del Fuego and the Malvinas veterans are still waiting for a coherent response that will bring order and clarity to what is happening with our province and its sovereignty.”
"This issue must be fully clarified so that Argentines and people from Tierra del Fuego know whether they are playing with us or if this is part of a new international positioning strategy that, apparently, intends to continue and deepen the work of the previous government that allowed the installation of the aforementioned radar in the heart of my province," concluded the radical senator.
