Characters of the stature of Leilane Farha, former special rapporteur for the right to housing (2014-2020), Human Rights Council, United Nations. Global Director, The Shift, and Raquel Rolnik, former Special Rapporteur on the right to housing (2008-2014), Human Rights Council, United Nations; are some of the signatories of the letter of support for the inclusion of the right to housing and the city in the plebiscite of the new Chilean Constitution.
The text states that they value “leaving behind a Constitution imposed in dictatorship” and consider that the new Magna Carta “represents the beginning of a series of transformations that aim to guarantee a dignified and sustainable habitation.” Likewise, they emphasize the incorporation of a gender and environmental perspective, in addition to highlighting “the role of the State in guaranteeing land availability and the necessary capture of capital gains, as well as the role of communities and community habitat management processes.”
However, one of the firms drew a welt among some expert observers from this and the other side of the mountain range. This is Luis D’elía García (65), former professor, famous piquetero and leader of the Federation of Land, Housing and Habitat, belonging to the powerful Central de Trabajadores Argentinos (CTA). ¡
D’elía has the gallons of having organized, in the 80s, thousands of homeless inhabitants and having built them the El Tambo neighborhood in greater Buenos Aires. Experience that replicated with the homeless and the Justicialist party in the 90s, creating El Tambo II, El Tambo III and El Tambo IV. These actions, which made him almost a legend of social organization and led him to be a councilor and then a deputy, over the years were overshadowed by a long list of controversies and accusations of crimes that have detracted from his credibility and adherence.
In fact, being Undersecretary of Lands for Social Habitat of Argentina, during the government of Néstor Kirchner, he had to leave his position for maintaining that the accusation made at that time by the Argentine justice against Iranian officials – for the attack on the AMIA – was a false lead introduced by the secret services of the United States and Israel, with no evidence other than the reports of the intelligence services themselves. Moreover, he was part of prosecutor Nisman’s investigation against former President Cristina (current vice president), for having intervened to lower the Interpol red alerts of several Iranian officials accused of being responsible for the AMIA attack.
Today, the Kirchnerist activist broadcasts daily on Rebelde radio and is a fervent defender of Vice President Cristina Fernández. Just yesterday he called for cutting routes throughout the country in defense of Mrs. K for the road cause, in which she is being accused of fraudulent administration and of having led an illicit association together with her late husband, former President Néstor Kirchner, during the governments of both (2003-2015).
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