More than
1,500 complaints per day and 30 organizations accused
by name.
That is the balance of the
telephone line
that the Government of Javier Milei enabled a little over a month ago, before the announcement of the first picket march.
Clarín
accessed the official report on the complaints received on line 134 and 30 organizations are named there.
As can be read in the report, beneficiaries of social plans mentioned them and in some cases added the
names of the alleged leaders who pressured them.
The complainants said they were victims of a crime that until now had
more word of mouth than formal complaints
: they would ask the beneficiaries for a monthly fee to continue receiving the plan and would also require them to go to the protest marches.
The line was put into operation on December 18, when the libertarian administration had been in power for 8 days and was 48 hours away from having its first picket protest.
It was that march on December 20, in which the anti-picket protocol was put into play, basically against left-wing organizations such as the
Polo Obrero
.
This group, which functions as the piquetero arm of the Partido Obrero, is one of those mentioned.
There are also other well-known ones such as the
Evita Movement
, the
Classist and Combative Current
(closer to Kirchnerism),
Barrios de Pie
,
Libres del Sur
and the
Darío Santillán Group
.
The other "orgas" reported are:
Cuba MTR Organization
.
Movement of Excluded Workers
.
United Town Current
.
Valeria Orozco Association
.
Rebel Argentina Networks Movement
.
FORGE
.
November 17 Movement
.
October 17 Movement
.
Change is Possible
.
William Cooke Group
.
Las Americas Group
.
Felipe Vallese Group
.
Unemployed group of Eva Perón
.
Avoid Solano
.
Union of Family Producers Cooperative
.
New Steps
.
Workless Movement Teresa Lives
.
Martín Fierro Group
.
Corriente Pueblo Unidos Organization
.
Mariano Ferreyra
.
FOL Organization
.
Neighborhood Movement of Workers
.
Teresa Lives Movement
.
There is also a union organization: the
CTA
(Central of Workers of Argentina), another that is
linked to Kirchnerism
.
3,900 complaints with "relevant data"
The 50-page
report
begins with a summary of numbers.
It is the "synthetic balance of the
complaints received
on line 134 about
instigation or coercion to block streets, routes or avenues
."
The total number of complaints, the Government assured
Clarín
, was around
57,000 in just 36 days
.
The average gives
more than 1,500 every 24 hours
.
Many.
But then they made a specification: of that total, less than 10,000 (about 3,900) "provided relevant data." The names of the organizations and representatives that demand money from the beneficiaries would be entered there.
Some of the complaints detailed by the Government also mention
alleged pressures
to go to the march this Wednesday
, which will accompany the general strike of the CGT: there
appears the name of the mayor of Tigre,
Julio Zamora (Unión por la Patria)
, accused of pressure the stall owners of the Puerto de Frutos in your municipality to attend the mobilization.
The Government has two open fights with the piquetero organizations, which gained extensive power with Macrismo and Kirchnerism: one, to see who is in charge in the street;
the other, for an economic issue.
Days ago, for example, La Rosada reported that 27,000 plans were being canceled due to incompatibilities.
Each
Potenciar Plan
is half of a vital and mobile minimum wage: today it represents
more than 70,000 pesos for each beneficiary per month
.
In Justice there is an open case - which started with the last government -, where troublings were also verified and thousands of payments were cancelled.
The Report clarifies that "
more than 1,200 of the complaints received at 134 were referred to the Ministry of Human Capital
because they involve people or social organizations that pressure the beneficiaries of some type of State Plan or Allocation to participate in street closures under the premise of removal, limitation or fine of benefits to those who do not attend, as well as various irregularities related to the administration of the aforementioned plans."
A central loot of politics
To get an idea of the money at stake, one fact is worth it:
there are nearly 1.3 million beneficiaries of Plans Potenciar
, the core fund of the piquetero organizations, which until now are a necessary filter (with their cooperatives) to see who can receive or not the benefit.
It is
one of the central and million-dollar fights in politics
.
The mayors of Greater Buenos Aires, for example, insistently complain about this intermediation.
Due to this advance, the piqueteros became a central player in their districts.
In the last election, for example, Fernando Espinoza
from Matanzas
had to beat a leader of the Evita Movement in an internal election.
Years ago, the possibility of a Peronist intern in that municipality would have been unthinkable.
The growth of poverty and the stagnation of formal employment favored the phenomenon and neither of the two poles of the rift (Kirchnerism and Macriism) wanted/could prevent its growth.