This Thursday
the picketers will return to the doors of the Capital and Provincial supermarkets
to ask for food.
The new day of protests will serve to give visibility to the
delayed delivery of merchandise
to the community kitchens that social movements denounce, but also to the existing
articulation problems
within the Ministry of Human Capital that Sandra Pettovello leads in an ironclad manner.
The fact is that the existing tension in this portfolio encouraged a few days ago the versions of the
supposed resignation of Pablo de la Torre
, the Secretary of Children and Family (formerly Social Development), due to the permanent disagreements over the management of resources with the friend of the President, which were denied by the ministerial spokesperson.
"Sandra is Milei in her manners. She speaks loudly
," explains an official who met with the official this week and reports friction that would alter the management of a portfolio that is essential to confront the flash of inflation.
The Government maintains, however, that the complaints from social organizations occur because today the ministry encourages "direct transfers" to the picnic areas instead of "giving them" food as used to happen in the past.
But
the ruling party itself admits that there are supply problems
because the previous Government left power without holding a tender at the end of November to buy dry and fresh food.
In any case, for now there is no evaluation of declaring a "Food Emergency" and the slogan is insisted: "under threat no one is received" in Social Development.
protest announcement
This Monday the piquetero groups of Peronist extraction and "allies" will announce at the UTEP headquarters, in the Constitución neighborhood, the
map of the mobilizations to supermarkets and even the headquarters of COPAL
(Coordinator of the Food Products Industries ) that will be held on Thursday, February 1, when they will deliver two "requests" in order to receive food.
In the confederation of popular movements, led by Alejandro "Peluca" Gramajo, they argue that the situation is "desperate" and that the purchase of merchandise is not even activated through funds from the United Nations and the World Bank.
The emergency, they add, produces an excess demand in the City's dining rooms.
At the Parque Patricios government headquarters they recognize that
the "delays of the Nation and Province" in the provision of food "complicate" the fulfillment of normal assistance, which today reaches about 133 thousand daily rations.
"They don't deliver bags or even the boxes that PAMI used to give and then the canteens ask us for more," explains a leader who assures that Pettovello "does not have a political perspective and thus the consequences are paid," in reference to the worsening of the conflict with the picketing groups.
Hot internal
Within the ministry itself there is not the best climate either due to the delays in the appointments of officials.
"There is no signature"
is a comment that is frequently repeated when management problems are known.
"They do not authorize purchases"
of merchandise, a libertarian leader excuses himself.
Pablo De la Torre, son of Joaquín (former provincial senator)
, is a fervent Catholic and a few weeks ago he would have communicated his discomfort - he threatened to resign "if things didn't work out" - to a Jesuit priest with whom he collaborates.
This Secretary of State, who had territorial work in San Miguel, relies on Rodrigo Aybar, another official with experience in the GBA, in this case in Tres de Febrero.
In Human Capital everything is magnified because
Pettovello
, in truth, is in charge of a
superstructure that encompasses two other sensitive areas: Education and Work
.
In these areas, complaints about delays in the appointment of undersecretaries are also repeated.
Another of the most heard complaints is that the minister does not bring the internal demands of her own portfolio to the Casa Rosada meetings.
Meanwhile, she divides her agenda between Olivos, where she is shown as one of the leaders closest to the President, and the audiences she grants in the historic mansion of Carlos Pellegrini y Juncal in which she set up her office. .