At 5:00 p.m., with Avenida 9 de Julio completely interrupted, the metrobus lanes blocked and the promise of camping for three daysthe columns of the Polo Obrero, Libres del Sur, MST-Teresa Vive, the Coordinadora por el Cambio Social and the MTL Rebelde arrived at the Ministry of Social Development.
The protesters, led by Silvia Saravia and Eduardo Belliboniset off fireworks by positioning themselves in front of the Social Development portfolio, which leads Victoria Toulouse Peace.
The demonstrators demand to be received by the minister, who throughout the day today will be in Misiones. “She is not going to receive them under these conditions”, affirmed official sources consulted by THE NATION.
The groups, grouped together in the so-called Piquetero Unit, claim against the casualties in the Empower Work plans. They assure that many beneficiaries cannot do the identity validation required by the ministry due to lack of connectivity and, therefore, end up excluded from the program. “We gave them four months of chance for validation. We are talking about 10,000 cases out of more than 1,200,000 beneficiaries”, they stressed from the Social Development portfolio. This morning, Tolosa Paz and Belliboni crossed paths in media statements.
Other claims raised by the Piquetero Unit are the lack of food in soup kitchensshortage in the delivery of tools for cooperatives and for the inflation in food, which emphasize that it is “double digits” per month in local businesses.
The oppressively hot day also did its part: Saravia, one of the national references of Libres del Sur, suffered a picture of low blood pressure while giving an interview to a television mobile, in the Obelisk and under the sun. Minutes later, she recovered and led the column of her group.
Belliboni, leader of the Polo Obrero, told THE NATION that, although the casualties in the Potenciar Trabajo plan continue to be an active claim for them, “if the Government had the possibility to talk about the issue of food and tools, from that we could chat for the people who were left out” . Likewise, he asked that the Ministry implement “a mechanism (so that they validate their identities and can remain in the list of beneficiaries of Potenciar Trabajo) for communities like the Wichi”. He requested “that they send a team.” The Piquetero Unit agreed to a claim from the Classy and Combative Current, which denounced casualties in the plan’s register in communities of Impenetrable Chaco.
Mónica Sulle, an MST-Teresa Vive referent, maintained that “the problem is work, food for the canteens and the tools to work.”
In the preview of a protest of the Picket Unit, Toulouse Peace charged again against the leader of the Polo Obrero, Eduardo Belliboni. Besides accusing him of “use poor people” for political purposes, launched: “Let him line up on 9 de Julio so we can validate his identity.” It was in response to the complaints of the social referent for the alleged “lowered” in the Empower Work program. It is that from the portfolio that leads the La Plata insist that if the holders complete the data, the full payment of this benefit will be restored to them.
“I ask Belliboni that instead of making the camp, and exposing the boys and girls, make a long line on July 9 so that we validate their identity one by one. We would do it faster than in three days of camping ”, he maintained in Radio 10 Tolosa Paz, who considered: “In the background, the discussion is different, it is a political discussion that we have to give at the polls, not using the poorest people.”
Thus, the minister Ladera of President Alberto Fernández clarified that the process of ratifying the data of the beneficiaries to continue with the collection of the plan has been done since November and emphasized that “the only way” is to carry out this process to remain as recipients of the social help. “The only excepted area is the Impenetrable in Chaco due to its characteristics, where with Coqui [por el gobernador Jorge Capitanich] hand in hand we are trying to fulfill that. The rest of the country has to do the validation”, bluntly said the official who was immovable in the face of the claims that the piqueteros will deposit in the center of Buenos Aires this week.
“I keep telling Eduardo Belliboni that the way is to sit in the Ministry y bring people who have not validated the identity. We started on November 22, four months have passed, more than 93% of people validated their data, only 7% have not. When I tell Belliboni to come and bring the people who have not been able to do it, it is that instead of mobilizing them, make a camp and shout out in the open that this is a fit; to organize her people and bring them to the door of the ministry, that we have all the tools to validate the data, ”Tolosa Paz insisted and even chicaneed him: “If he found the more than 10,000 headlines he can’t find, this sticking point would be resolved.”
On the last piquetero day, the referents of the leftist organizations that come together in these mobilizations -even since Daniel Arroyo was head of the area- were upset that the minister did not receive them at the headquarters of her portfolio, since she had made a trip to Entre Ríos.
For this new instance of protest, they said that Tolosa Paz “is satisfied with the casualties of Potenciar Trabajo”, since you want “show the International Monetary Fund (IMF) what a good student it is of the adjustment”. They also complained about the inflation and for the “destruction” of salary, retirement and fixed income.
Under these reasons, the camp will run from this afternoon until Wednesday, March 15. “In the City we go to the Development gate to ask once again for a meeting with the minister and We are not leaving until you receive us”, they warned.