The response of the Minister of Human Capital
Sandra Pettovello
to the leaders and protesters of the social organizations of the UTEP who mobilized on Thursday to their offices in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Retiro to deliver a petition for the lack of food in soup kitchens did not take long. to go viral.
“
People are hungry, let them come.
I am going to serve the people who are hungry one by one, but not the references
.
Are people hungry?
I am going to serve the people who are hungry one by one, not the referents.
Come one by one, I will write down your ID, your name, where you are from and
you will receive help individually
,” answered the minister at the entrance to the
Casa Patria Grande Néstor Kirchner
, in the Retiro neighborhood, where she has her offices. main.
A while later, despite the oppressive heat, Pettovello settled behind a garden table in the front patio that serves as the garage of the facility located on Carlos Pellegrini and Juncal along with a collaborator who was waiting - form in hand - for the protesters to They will accept your invitation and you will enter to discuss your dietary needs one by one.
Nobody passed.
“We are going to solve people's problems, but
we are not going to allow ourselves to be extorted by poverty managers
who manipulate the will of those who need it most,” the minister insisted in a statement.
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The Minister of Human Capital met protesters and clarified that she will not speak with leaders, but with "people who are hungry."
In the Executive they supported Pettovello, one of the ministers who built the most trust with the President.
Presidential spokesperson
Manuel Adorni
highlighted the minister's task in his morning press conference this Friday and continued confronting the organizations.
“I want to highlight the attitude of Minister Sandra Pettovello when confronting the poverty managers yesterday and making herself available to each of the people who she feels have a need.
She demonstrated that poverty managers and business with the poor exist.
We are not going to allow it to continue happening,” said Adorni, who on Thursday accompanied the Secretary General of the Presidency
Karina Milei
to Congress after it became known that her brother was
hired as an advisor in the Ministry of Defense
.
The minister's wish is about to come true, with an
uncomfortable (but not spontaneous) photo
that reflects the shortage of food in canteens, exacerbated by inflation and the Government's decision to
stop sending bags of food
to thousands. of dining rooms.
The social movements that make up the UTEP, who also showed up at a hundred supermarkets to ask for food and on Thursday afternoon also demonstrated in Congress against the omnibus law,
will mobilize thousands of people to the Pettovello offices on Monday
.
“We are going to line up so that he can serve them one by one, as he requested.
We will have to go around the block several times,” said one of the leaders of Evita and Somos Barrios de Pie, who are driving the action.
Pepper spray.
A protester near the Pettovello offices.
During Thursday's mobilization, almost all the social activists waited on the sidewalk and a few did so in the street, but there was no conflict with the Buenos Aires police.
On the other hand, there were clashes between the
protesters and the Federal Police
when some social leaders wanted to enter the ministerial building.
It was short-lived: the force's infantry division rushed the protesters with their shields and sprayed them with pepper spray.
The Government boasts of having increased the amounts of
individual
food cards by 75% .
However, so far the transfers have only been made
to 2 thousand establishments
of the at least
10 thousand existing ones
.
“They ignore that the demand in the dining rooms has grown by 60 percent due to the crisis,” said the general secretary of the UTEP
Alejandro Gramajo
, a leader of the Evita Movement.
The Executive, meanwhile, is moving forward with an audit of the dining rooms.
Official sources and the movements agree that the information circulating in the National Registry of Community Dining Rooms and Picnic Areas (ReNaCoM) is not reliable and is not updated.
More than 40 thousand signed up there.
Although the Government reiterates that it does not speak with social leaders, Pettovello had delegated that task (via Pablo de la Torre) to Omar Alkaddour, but the UTEP movements maintain that the dialogue was interrupted days ago and the Executive does not confirm whether The official (who was not named) remains in office.
In addition to the demand for food, social leaders also complain about the difficulty in obtaining social bottles at the established price ($6 thousand) in the Conurbano neighborhoods, where the cost triples.