The Association of State Workers (ATE) announced that this Friday, when Miley travels to Bariloche to attend the Business Convergence Forum at the Lao Lao Hotel, it will welcome the President with statements of disapproval. ,He is persona non grata in our province, and we have to show him that,” Rodolfo Aguiar, the union’s general secretary, feared these street activities. The state does not rule out cutting routes to prevent Miley from reaching Llao Llao, although Security Minister Patricia Bullrich has already said that she is going to prevent it. In fact, announcements have already been made to implement security measures to prevent cuts and demonstrations.
The forum will be attended by some of the country’s most powerful businessmen, such as Marcos Galperin (Free Market), Marcos Bulgheroni (PAE); Agustín Otero Monsegur and Carlos Miguenes (San Miguel Citrus Grove); Federico Braun (The Anonymous); Martin Migoya and Guibert Englebien (Globant); Karina Roman (Roman Logistics); Sebastian Bago (Bago Laboratories), and Veronica Andriani (Andriani). In addition to Miley, Paraguay’s President Santiago Peña and Uruguay’s Luis Lacalle Pou (who arrived in Bariloche on a private plane with Galperin and other Argentine businessmen based in Uruguay) will also participate.
The place where the specific stage takes place is symbolic. The Lalao Lalao Hotel is owned by Eduardo Alztén (from the IRSA Group), who hosted Miley during the campaign and in the first weeks of the government at the Libertador Hotel, which he also owns. This forum is a traditional and very confidential program. This year there are three presidential guests. It starts this Wednesday with the Lacalle Pau exhibition; On Thursday the Paraguayans will speak and on Friday, the day of the protests, Miley will be in charge of the closing speech.
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Since arriving at the Casa Rosada in December, the La Libertad Avanza government has fired 12 to 15 thousand state employees. About 12 thousand according to a union survey, 15 thousand according to presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni, possibly in anticipation of new personnel cuts. For a political force that proposes the extinction of the state, all adjustments in public expenditure are displayed as if they are good news, but inadequate.
With the demonstrations, ATE also wants to highlight the wage crisis in the region, as public workers have suffered a 20 percent pay loss under Miley’s management. “We have lost more purchasing power during these last four months than in the last eight years. Cutting salaries and pensions is cruel,” Aguiar said.
Finally, the union leader, who is from Rio Negro state, raised a more political question. With the “Base Law” and the Mega DNU, he assured, handing over Patagonia to foreign capital would worsen the situation.
Aguirre reported that the business meeting “will be held without the press being able to report on the deliberations” and that its protagonists are “tax-exempt planners”, “violators of labor laws who have fled Uruguay, owners of rich energy companies. “Meet on that stage with the increase in rates, the heirs of supermarkets guilty of inflation in Argentina and the CEOs of laboratories profiting from the health of retirees,” he said, which is why he assumed that when Miley arrives in Bariloche ” All paths must cross.”
In response to the protest announcement, the Security Minister, Patricia Bullrich, warned: “They are not going to close any routes, we already have a decision to work every day.”
In statements to the LN+ cable signal, Bullrich said that his government had already achieved “liberating the streets of the city of Buenos Aires and other cities” and that “exactly the same thing is going to happen in Bariloche and Even more so if the President of Transita Nation.
Social movements from UTEP and the two CTAs will join this Friday’s protest. ATE has also set out a battle plan for the coming days, which includes its participation in the university march on Tuesday, 23 April, and the mobilization on 1 May, as well as joining the strike called by the CGT on 9 May.