The Judiciary ordered producer Enzo Mariani to return more than 800 hectares on the Entre Ríos islands, but he promised to appeal.

Enzo Mariani was notified of a first instance ruling that requires him to restore approximately 800 hectares located off the coast of Rosario, Santa Fe, in the Victoria department, in the province of Entre Ríos. The ruling, signed by Judge María Belén Ríos of the Civil and Commercial Court No. 1 of Victoria, considered that the occupation lacked legal basis and had to cease. The resolution adds to other similar decisions made in recent years within the framework of the regularization process of the Deliot Legacy, which seeks to recover lands considered to be of public domain. But for Mariani, who has been producing on that same plot for over twenty years, the story is not so straightforward. “We entered with permission, not by force. We always worked with the knowledge of the municipality and paying taxes. We are not squatters,” he assured Bichos de Campo, visibly upset with the way, according to him, the case has been presented. The cattleman produces meat there for export, ...