VideoHe was its owner for three years. Victoria Donda reacted to the announcement of the closure of Inadi and accused MileiBy Valeria Musse

Victoria Dondawho He was head of the National Institute against Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racism (Inadi) during much of the management of Alberto Fernandez, targeted the libertarian administration of Javier Milei after the official decision of close of the organism. “I am not surprised that this Government, which does not defend rights, which leaves children with cancer without medication, does this”he said when asked THE NATION.

Afterwards, he warned that this management “the only thing it generates is poverty and recession.” and emphasized that the measure is “one more of a Government that came to sell part of the structure of the State”. Likewise, the former head of the entity questioned: “If something doesn’t work, I improve it, I don’t destroy it.” Inadi was created by Law 24,515 in 1995 and currently operates under the orbit of the Ministry of Justice. Its objective is to develop public policies at the federal level to combat all forms of discrimination, xenophobia and racism.

Victoria Donda, former head of Inadi, reacted to the announcement of the closure of Inadi and accused Milei

Donda harshly criticized the current national management. “It is a Government that took inflation last month to a record, with a monstrous devaluation stronger than the one they did [Mauricio] Macri and [Eduardo] Duhalde He is not interested in people”.

Donda’s statements come after this Thursday, in his usual press conference, the presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni confirmed that the Government decided to “move forward” with “the definitive closure” of Inadi as part of the reduction of the state structure decided by the national leader. “We cannot make people continue to rely on these types of issues with their taxes,” said the official from Casa Rosada. “It’s useless,” he said.

“The decision was made to move forward with the dismantling from different institutes that They are useless or they are big political boxes or places to generate militant employment.. We start with the first of them, which is going to be Inadi. We are starting with its final closure“, noted the spokesperson in his presentation to the press. “It has around 400 employees, offices throughout the country. These institutes are also usually run by officials of dubious suitability,” he added.

The spokesperson clarified that the closure of Inadi will not be immediate, and maintained: “We would love for it to be closed today, but that cannot happen due to administrative issues. In several cases, [el cierre de ciertos institutos] It will be by decree and in others, the decision of each ministry will be enough,” he explained.

Also the national Undersecretary of Press, Javier Lanari, referred on his social networks to the decision to close the Inadi, an institution that he said “had more employees than the Ordinary Jurisdiction” of the Buenos Aires Justice, where “crimes, violations and crimes are investigated. robberies.”

INADI had more employees than the ordinary jurisdiction of CABA (where crimes, rapes and robberies are investigated). It has more than 40 offices in the digital era. There is no longer any place to pay political favors with hierarchical positions…

— Javier Lanari (@javierlanari) February 22, 2024

The controversy with his domestic worker

One of the events that colored the image of Victoria Donda was the one that involved his former domestic employee Arminda Banda Oxa. In January 2021, messages from WhatsApp in which Donda, in response to a request for job regularization to be able to access a retirement by his employee, offered her a position at Inadi and a social plan.

The origin of the conflict would have been that during the coronavirus quarantine, Donda stopped paying him his salary for several months and, subsequently, he would only have paid certain periods for an amount less than what he was entitled to.

“I, over there, I can write you down on a plan, we can sign you up for something out there. I need you to tell me that: if you resign [al empleo de servicio doméstico] because you have to unsubscribe to be able to sign up for a plan and then you can still pay for your retirement,” Donda told her former employee in one of the messages in the last days of November 2020.

“Tell me what you want to do and if I can help you with anything with your sister. We can also see a contract in the Inadi,” added the former official in another of the messages that her former employee presented in the criminal complaint for the alleged crime of fraud against the Public Administration, although it was later dismissed because federal judge Sebastián Casanello concluded that the alleged act would not fit into a criminal figure.

Victoria Donda

In interviews, Banda Oxa said that she worked for Victoria Donda’s family for 13 years and that during that time she felt like a “multi-employee” because she carried out all kinds of tasks. “She acted as cook, laundress, gardener, kennel, cadet, nanny… everything. I was in black for ten years; He didn’t give me raises or bonuses or vacations.”, he was able to say.

What is Inadi

Inadi is a decentralized organization whose objective is to develop national policies to combat all forms of discrimination, xenophobia and racism, promoting and carrying out federal and transversal public policies articulated with civil society.

Among his main work objectives (according to the official website)

• It acts as an enforcement agency of Law 23,592 on Discriminatory Acts, ensuring its compliance and the achievement of its objectives, through the analysis of the national reality regarding discrimination, xenophobia and racism and the preparation of reports and proposals regarding such topics.
• Receives and centralizes complaints about discriminatory, xenophobic or racist behavior and keeps a record of them at the national level.
• Provides a comprehensive and free advisory service for people or groups who are discriminated against or victims of xenophobia or racism.
• Designs and promotes awareness and sensitization campaigns aimed at valuing social and cultural pluralism, and the elimination of discriminatory, xenophobic or racist practices; participating in the execution of those campaigns.
• It provides the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the judicial courts with specialized technical advice on matters related to the subject matter within its jurisdiction.
• Celebrates agreements with public or private, national or international organizations and/or entities, in order to fully comply with the objectives assigned to this Institute.

Valeria Musse

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