Thousands of protesters occupied Buenos Aires’ Plaza del Congreso this week in opposition to land reforms promoted by Javier Milei’s far-right government, which would have lifted restrictions on the purchase and ownership of rural land by foreign investors. On Thursday the government caved to public pressure and withdrew a key chapter from the Inviolability of Private Property bill that proposed raising the cap on foreign ownership of rural land to 25% per province – a move critics say undermines Argentina’s sovereignty and would open the door to further foreign control over its resources. Organizers maintain cutting that section does not change the core of the bill, which prioritizes foreign capital over vulnerable local communities; It fast-tracks evictions for tenants behind on rent, eliminates the legal status of communal land ownership for Indigenous peoples, and reduces the State’s powers to seize private property.

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