The Foundation for Justice and Transparency has filed an appeal in the Superior Administrative Court (TSA) against the proposal to transfer 10,400,000 square meters surrounding the Cueva de las Maravillas to the foundation that administrates it.
Trajano Vidal Potentini said that the anthropological reserve has a value of around US$300 million and that we had seen previously, that with this type of contract they could then sell it as they wished. He noted that article 16 of the Constitution clearly states that protected areas are inalienable and cannot be transferred, seized or acquired by adverse possession. The Constitution states tat protected areas can only be reduced by law, with the approval of two-thirds of the votes of the members of both houses of Congress.
Vidal Potentini went on to say that one only had to remember the case of Downtown Center that was donated to the Catholic Church and then sold by the Church for millions of dollars to a private group, or the land donated to the Pedro Henriquez Ureña University that was later sold to Ikea.
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Diario Libre
27 March 2018
