The privatization zeal of Federico Sturzenegger's Ministry of Deregulation ran headlong into an institutional and patriotic limit in the Senate. In the afternoon, facing the certainty of an undeniable defeat, the head of the ruling party bloc, Patricia Bullrich , was forced to announce the complete withdrawal of Chapter III of the "Inviolability of Private Property" bill, the central clause that sought to dismantle the Rural Land Law No. 26,737.

The attempt to raise the national limit on foreign ownership from 15% to 25% —after the original project sought total liberalization—, the elimination of the limits of 1,000 hectares per owner in the core zone and the removal of quotas by nationality were buried after the break of the fragile majority on which the Executive Branch was speculating.

The rebellion of the provinces: The governors who said NO

The handover structure began to collapse when governors who were usually close to the Casa Rosada decided to take a stand in defense of their strategic resources:

A small triumph in a landscape of dispossession

The removal of the chapter on foreign land ownership represents a crucial tactical victory amidst a critical context for national sovereignty. The government's bill sought to whitewash and expand the triangulation schemes we have been denouncing at Agenda Malvinas : from the corporate fraud perpetrated by Chilean magnate Ibáñez Bulnes on 60,000 hectares in Santa Cruz, to the UAE's enclaves in Cerro Carreras (Río Negro) and the Bahía Dorada airstrip, to the transfer of South Atlantic patrols to the US Southern Command and access to the CNEA's nuclear secrets under the Pax Silica agreement.

However, caution remains the guiding principle. While the ruling party withdraws the land chapter to salvage the rest of the package—which still includes expedited evictions , increased costs for state expropriations, and the dangerous reform to the Fire Management Law that allows speculation on burned forests—provinces like Tierra del Fuego are already moving forward with local safeguards, such as the Law for the Protection of Territorial Domain presented by legislator Juan Matías Lapadula .

The land is not being auctioned off

The retreat of Patricia Bullrich and Federico Sturzenegger demonstrates that when the alert about territorial integrity is activated and exposed with precise data, the political cost of "signing the auction" becomes unpayable for provincial representatives.

The National Government intended to hand over the land, aquifers, and borders to the voracious appetites of American, British, and Israeli capital. The rebellion in the Senate has managed to halt, at least in this instance, the formal surrender of the nation's territory. The battle to defend common resources continues in Congress, but today territorial sovereignty scored a decisive victory.