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Piqueteros analyze carrying out blockades in the main accesses of the country during the Holy Week holiday and April 2 - Infobae
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Piqueteros analizan realizar bloqueos en los principales accesos del país durante el feriado de Semana Santa y el 2 de abril
La decisión se tomará el viernes. Reclaman alimentos para los comedores, la baja en planes sociales, y la política económica del gobierno de la Libertad Avanza. Javier Milei le quitó la “intermediación” de programas que tenían los movimientos sociales peronistas
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March 21, 2024
The decision will be made on Friday. They demand food for the soup kitchens, the reduction in social plans and the economic policy of the Libertad Avanza government. Javier Milei removed the “intermediation” of programs that the Peronist social movements had and denounced the leader of the Evita Movement, Emilio Pérsico, to court.
By Andrs Klipphan
Piqueteros analyze making cuts in the main accesses of the country for Holy Week
The left-wing piquetero organizations, headed by the Polo Obrero, led by Eduardo Belliboni ; and the Peronist social movements, such as Evita, led by Emilio Pérsico , and the Movement of Excluded Workers (MTE) referenced in Juan Grabois ; At this time they are analyzing “strong force measures” against the social and economic policies of Javier Milei's government. They threaten that it will be the “ strongest ” carried out since the arrival at the Casa Rosada de la Libertad Avanza.
“It will be a new day of struggle, which could be blockades of the main hypermarkets, cuts at the beginning of the long weekend of Easter and April 2 of routes and accesses to the main tourist centers of the country and other options such as ten thousand neighborhood assemblies . “We are evaluating these options with all the organizations that participated in the event on Monday,” one of the main popular leaders who yesterday participated in the meeting held by the organizations that make up the Popular Economy Workers Union (UTEP) told Infobae . in Unión por la Patria, and the Piquetera Unit, made up of some 50 left-wing political and union organizations opposed to the CGT leadership.
These are the same movements that on Monday blocked access to the City of Buenos Aires and carried out 500 pickets throughout the country. That measure was preceded by others; such as a march to the Ministry of Human Capital, led by Sandra Pettovello , which were not massive and in which the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, imposed the Anti-Picket Protocol through the federal forces. In fact, on Monday there were clashes and injuries between protesters and members of the Federal Police, Gendarmerie and Prefecture.
Social groups demand food for community soup kitchens and picnic areas. They report that the food has not arrived since November 2023.
The Minister of Human Capital, Sandra Pettovello audits the food distribution and divided the Empower Work REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian in two
The crescendo of the measures of force of the popular organizations are also related to the government's advance on million-dollar programs that were “outsourced” through the social leaders who were part of the government of Alberto Fernández , in the former Ministry of Social Development. , like Emilio Pérsico .
Among them, the elimination of Empower Work - which was divided into two programs - and the definancing of the Management Units, most of them cooperatives, which received more than 17 billion pesos annually , which Pérsico administered from the Ministry of Economy, stand out. Social; and the reduction almost to zero of the funds allocated to the Socio-Urban Integration Fund (FISU), which were transferred to work cooperatives for “socio-urban integration projects for popular neighborhoods and the creation of lots with services,” which Fernanda managed . Miño , leader of the MTE, through the Secretariat of Socio-Urban Integration.
Javier Milei reduced the structure of the Ministry of Social Development to a secretariat, that of Children, Adolescence and Family, headed by Pablo de la Torre , and which is part of the Human Capital organizational chart.
The social leaders are convinced that La Libertad Avanza is trying to discipline them by taking away their power. They are no longer in charge of the distribution of the 4.2% of the dry food that they distributed among their own canteens and picnic areas. Pettovello affirms that 55% of these places “do not exist” and that only 8% of the food that came out of the portfolio that was in charge of Daniel Arroyo , Juan Zavaleta and Victoria Tolosa Paz , “had traceability”, that is to say that It was declared which dining room they went to and how many people attended.
An audit ordered by Pettovello also determined that there were overpricing and cartelization in food tenders . That's why he modified the way of hiring. He signed an agreement for 20 billion pesos through international organizations such as the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture (OEI).
Incidents in the last mobilization of the UTEP and the Piquetera Unit with the federal forces
The new piquetero threat, which promises to be massive, also coincides with the criminal complaint that the Ministry of Human Capital filed against Pérsico for diverting almost 500 million pesos in agreements from the State to two cooperatives of which he was a part. In fact, from the social organizations that are part of the UTEP, such as the Corriente Clasista y Combativa (CCC), Somos/Barrios de Pie, and the Evita Movement itself, they affirm that Pérsico himself encourages the measures against Minister Pettovello and the Milei management.
Those who are active with him assure that under the impression, Pérsico would be disappointed because no social leader of the UTEP, nor politician of Unión Por la Patria, former Frente de Todos, came to his defense against the accusation before the Comodoro Py courts for the alleged crimes of “ fraud against public administration, abuse of authority and violation of the duties of a public official .”
Only he, alone, declared on Radio 10: “Now they are going against me because of the march (on Monday). These people are easy, when they take remedies from the elderly, they look for corruption in the PAMI . When we mobilize for hunger, they attack a social leader. Every time we mobilize, we are going to have a scene of the police making a skirmish and making complaints to scare people. The marches are getting bigger and not because of the plans, but because the State is withdrawing more and more from the territory .
That Monday, after the five access cuts to CABA and the 500 pickets in the country due to the lack of food in the community kitchens, Juan Grabois, the MTE leader and former presidential candidate for Unión por la Patria, gave his opinion on the government , the pickets, but not about the accusation against the Evita leader: “The organized people and the humble are going to stop these heartless little cancheritos . Hold on to UTEP and the social movements. Let no fight against planned misery and the repressive government slacken. Let them tell it today however they want, soon their mask will fall . The Homeland is not for sale. Hunger is the limit .” Until now, publicly, Grabois is the social leader aligned with Kirchnerism and Peronism who was most exposed criticizing the advances of La Libertad Avanza on the conquests that the leaders of the popular economy had achieved in the Fernández administration.
Social organizations denounce that La Libertad Avanza does not deliver food to community kitchens EFE/ Juan Ignacio Roncoroni
Until now, social leaders have avoided fully confronting the government. They did not mobilize forcefully or carry out massive pickets in arteries under federal jurisdiction.
If they comply with the proposals that were evaluated yesterday in the meeting that will resume on Friday, it will be a litmus test of their own capacity for mobilization, after the decisions that the government made to take away power over the beneficiaries of the plans, and the Minister Bullrich's determination to avoid cuts and the protesters marching on the sidewalk.
Until yesterday, the cuts to the main tourist accesses starting on Thursday, March 28, such as Highway 2, which leads to the Atlantic Coast, the Pan-American Highway and National Route No. 3, heading to the south of the country, seem like those of greater acceptance. However, it has not yet been voted on. On the other hand, the UTEP has already decided that: “ In repudiation of the measures that seek to defund policies aimed at the family, peasant and Indigenous agriculture sector, rural organizations grouped in the Union of Workers of the Popular Economy” will hold today in Plaza Congreso called “alimentazo” and through which “more than 200,000 kilos of food will be sold at popular prices.”
