A recent investigation by the newspaper Tiempo Argentino has uncovered a network of direct awards and secrecy that jeopardizes the natural heritage and sovereignty of the province of Río Negro. Governor Alberto Weretilneck allegedly granted mining exploration permits in a protected glacier zone, under the guise of illegal government secrecy, benefiting companies linked to foreign capital with dubious legal standing.

The "Collín Search" in the dark

According to the complaint, file 50138-M-25 was kept out of the Official Gazette. It concerns a concession of 10,000 hectares in Cerro Carreras , a critical area where the Chubut and Pichileufú rivers originate.

The beneficiary company, Tamar Mining , operates under the umbrella of Meridion del Plata , a corporate hub that is not registered with the General Inspectorate of Justice (IGJ) under that name. Most alarming is that the affected area contains inventoried glaciers , whose exploitation is strictly prohibited by National Law 26,639 .

The Cascade of Delivery

This new development fits perfectly into the pieces that Agenda Malvinas has been denouncing. The "handover" of Río Negro and Patagonia has a chronology and a logic of a "parallel state":

1. The Mekorot Precedent and Water Control

Months ago, we reported on the hiring of the Israeli state-owned company Mekorot . Under the guise of "water management expertise," they were granted access to strategic information about the river basins. Today, Tamar Mining (the beneficiary of the Cerro Carreras project) appears as the local operator that has already worked with Mekorot . Yesterday's strategic information is today's mining business.

2. British and Arab Enclaves and "Extraterritoriality"

Río Negro has allowed the consolidation of enclaves that function as fiefdoms:

3. Santa Cruz: The Fraud of the "Vendepatrias"

What's happening in Río Negro mirrors the complaint filed by Dr. Eduardo Barcesat in Santa Cruz. There, 60,000 hectares (including Lake San Martín and the Andrés Johnson Glacier) ended up in the hands of Chilean magnate Ibáñez Bulnes . The maneuver was identical: they simulated a sale to Argentinians and concealed the capital behind a trust to circumvent the Land Law and the Border Security Zone . Today, that area is closed off with earthen mounds, preventing sovereign access to large rivers.

4. Mendoza: Malargüe and the "Ark of the Future"

In Malargüe , the phenomenon takes on a dystopian dimension. Foreign investors are buying up strategic land to build private refuges in the event of global catastrophes (a kind of "Noah's Ark" for the elite). The real objective: to secure control of the headwaters of the Andes Mountains under the guise of "ecological reserves" or extremely exclusive real estate projects.

A Territory in Conflict

Cerro Carreras is today the symbol of this feudal advance. Ninety-eight percent of the area is native forest and glaciers. The decision to secretly extract gold, silver, and copper confirms that the provincial government has relinquished its role as custodian to become a real estate developer of strategic resources.

These are not isolated incidents: it's a map of silent occupation. Whether by British, Chilean, Israeli, or Emirati capital, the pattern is the same: where water originates, Argentine sovereignty dies.