Overview
- The State Assets Agency delivered 10-day eviction notices on Friday to about 50 people living at the Chapadmalal tourist complex, including roughly 30 on-site workers.
- A Buenos Aires provincial court later ordered the eviction, and the ATE public workers union said it filed an injunction to try to halt removals.
- Officials cite alleged irregular use of staff housing by workers’ family members, and they say only security and maintenance crews had remained at the site after last year’s transfer to the State Assets Agency.
- The national government plans a 30-year concession to draw private investment and cut upkeep costs, while a sale is not allowed because the seaside complex sits on expropriated land designated cultural heritage in 2013.
- Local leaders are pushing alternatives, including ceding one hotel to the National University of Mar del Plata for a campus or shifting control to Buenos Aires Province to preserve social tourism use.