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Alberto Rodríguez Saá also launched controversial phrases about porteños: "They are not present in productive activity"

2020-06-04T19:29:12.390Z


The governor of San Luis defended the sayings of his peer from La Pampa, Sergio Ziliotto. He considered that "except for clandestine workshops, factories do not have the City of Buenos Aires."


06/03/2020 - 1:25

  • Clarín.com
  • Politics

The governor of San Luis, the Peronist Alberto Rodríguez Saá, defended the sayings of his pampa member Sergio Ziliotto about the porteños and added several phrases of his own to the controversy: he considered that "except for clandestine workshops, factories do not have the City of Buenos Aires" , and that its inhabitants "are not present in the productive activity" of the country.

With Ziliotto at his side after signing a "free passage" agreement between both provinces to make the quarantine more flexible, Rodríguez Saá remarked that he shared the words of the pampeano, who had assured that "productive Argentina has plenty of porteños."

"What he said is that there are plenty of porteños to work (sic) and it can be said in another way. It was a beautiful literary turn. Maybe they did not understand it," said the San Luis governor.

And he continued with the theme: "What he meant, and I share it, is that the interior of the country or federal Argentina and a large part of the province of Buenos Aires are all producers in the countryside, in the industry ...  We are those of us who build the country's wealth . "

Then he launched one of his controversial definitions: "I do not know that in the City of Buenos Aires they do not plant soybeans, they do not raise sheep, they do not raise cattle. I do know that except for clandestine factories, the City of Buenos Aires does not have them."

"So the phrase that the porteños are not present in the productive activity , is the same phrase. It is not a hurtful phrase, it is a truth," interpreted the Puntaño president in his eagerness to endorse the words of Ziliotto, who clarified that with his phrase targeted the anti-quarantine protesters.

Later Rodríguez Saá tried to qualify his discharge against the inhabitants of the City of Buenos Aires.

"It is also a truth that it is the financial center of the country. Who doubts. And it can also become the capital of the intelligence revolution," he said.

Death and outrage

Rodríguez Saá was left in the last hours in the midst of hard questions about the embankment that his province raised to cut the passage of the Cordovan people who live in La Paz, a town next to Merlo whose inhabitants carry out activities and have relatives in both places. Mario Javier Cortes (41) died on that slope, who was crushed by his car after wedging himself when trying to cross it and get out of the vehicle.

"A disgrace, a disgrace," said Rodríguez Saá. And he sought to justify the measure: "The embankment was built for a noble purpose , which is to take care of the health status of the province" because "Córdoba has community circulation" of the coronavirus. 

Now the governor assured that they have good communication between the mayors of Merlo and La Paz, and that both provincial crisis committees are in conversation to seek a solution.

"We are going to make a work table. There are 15, 20 or 30 the group (of people) who wants to go to Merlo . Then let's see the causes. So that no one has a problem: that social rights, human rights and communication. But complying with the protocol, "said Rodríguez Saá in a turn of his position after the tragedy.

Correspondent in La Pampa.

Source: clarin

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