05/30/2020 - 17:31
- Clarín.com
- Society
New mobilizations were registered this Saturday in different parts of the country to demand the end of the restrictions that were established against the coronavirus and that prevent the economic reactivation.
The epicenter of one of these marches was the Buenos Aires Obelisk, where incidents occurred when a group of people protesting clashed with City Police officers.
" Freedom of movement and work," protesters claimed with one of the banners they prepared to march in downtown Buenos Aires. While some mobilized on foot, others did so with their vehicles and added honks to the protest.
One of the protesters, in statements to the press, said: "I voted for Alberto (Fernández) but I want him to realize that there are other ways of thinking, I want to work ."
Another of the people who mobilized to the center of Buenos Aires said that this claim represents those who "do not want to remain more confined and who want to work."
The protest at the Obelisk. (Photo: Fernando de la Orden).
The protest at the Obelisk. (Photo: Fernando de la Orden).
(Fernando de la Orden)
Tiger and La Plata
Two completely opposite realities were experienced in Tigre and La Plata, towns where the anti-quarantine march went viral.
In the Buenos Aires municipality that Julio Zamora leads, a new caravan of cars was produced to demand the end of the quarantine. As Clarín found , many of the vehicles had signs with the phrase "intelligent quarantine" and flags of Argentina.
Last Monday about 400 vehicles protested against the isolation. "We want to go out to work, we learned to take care of ourselves, we want to go out like you, the journalists," said Ángeles, one of the neighbors who went to protest.
"I am claiming for our right to work, our right to be able to move within the neighborhoods and do physical exercise, we are claiming that," added Patricia, a teacher who, three months ago, did not receive income from the pandemic. "This is a demand for closed and open neighborhoods, there are many people who have been fired and the monotributistas who have closed their businesses, this reached a limit, we know how to take care of ourselves, this is authoritarianism, it is a dictatorship, " he added.
In La Plata the reality was different. The mobilization, called in front of the Cathedral in Plaza Moreno, did not gather more than 30 people, some of them with signs that said "CircoVid" and respected social distance.
Background to a growing claim
The marches had some antecedents in recent days, such as those registered in the Federal Capital, in the Buenos Aires city of Tigre and in the capital of the province of Córdoba, among others.
One of the most notorious was the one that starred more than 150 people last Monday, also in the Obelisk area. With banners and slogans, the protesters protested against the cessation of economic activity that generated the quarantine. .
Also on Monday, residents of the Buenos Aires party of Tigre held a caravan to promote the same claim, but with the slogan: "A peaceful revolution in the car for our rights."
The protests began to be repeated after more than 70 days of the preventive and compulsory social isolation that President Alberto Fernández launched to try to cushion the impact of the pandemic.
The protest at the Obelisk. (Photo: Fernando de la Orden).
The protest at the Obelisk. (Photo: Fernando de la Orden).
The protest at the Obelisk. (Photo: Fernando de la Orden).