Mariano roa
03/01/2021 15:51
Clarín.com
Zonal
Updated 03/01/2021 3:51 PM
Ricardo Lovaglio
agrees to chat for a while sitting in front of his desk in the house where
Perón
lived
,
on Gaspar Campos de
Vicente López
street
.
He wants to go to the steaks, almost without preamble: "I am the secretary general and I take a look at what happened on Saturday at the
Quinta Presidencial
door
: we went to defend the government we voted for and we would do it again."
The "Fat Guardian", as many call him but not ahead of him, admits that there was violence but remarks that his companions were also victims.
"They surrounded us and would
n't let us leave. At
one point I asked us to leave and demobilize. But it was impossible to get out.
They locked us up
. The police even had to make us a cordon so they wouldn't hit us," he says.
Rircardo Lovaglio, who armed the counter-march in the Fifth Presidency, with President Fernández in mid-February at the Casa de Gaspar Cámpos de Perón.
When he is reminded that on the other side there were many
retirees,
several of them attacked, Lovaglio argues that there are also "many companions" injured.
"We arrived early with a truck with loudspeakers and several kids playing snare drums. Zero violence. The march against the Government was called for the Plaza de Mayo.
We did not know they were going to come to the Quinta,
" he says, although he would later admit that in the other massive marches there were always many residents who chose to march to the presidential residence.
The secretary general of the CGT North zone denies that they have mobilized
shock groups
, with the presence of brave bars.
Among them, several "typical"
Racing
fans
:
especially from the ´95 and Racing Stones factions.
There he was, for example, with a yellow cap, the
Topo de Boulogne
, who was dressed as a popular clown and knew a member of the Uocra union.
The Topo de Boulogne is also a trade unionist and was in the countermarch "which ended in violence in the Fifth President. He used to go dressed as a clown to the popular Racing.
"Perhaps you see them as dirty and fat black men. But they did not go looking for a fight. I repeat: we went to bank
Alberto Fernández
, the president who we voted in democracy. And many protesters attacked us. And then, they would not let us leave the place. Among the most exalted was that he had a mask and some more who hit several colleagues. All of these are people from
Cambiemos.
Those are the violent ones, "he says.
In dialogue with
Clarín Zonal,
at the same time that Alberto Fernández gave his speech at the inauguration of the legislative year, Lovaglio also asks to remember that he lives "behind his parents' house (they are from
San Fernando
). You find nothing. We are part of a new solidarity unionism. If in two years I have to watch the Miter wagons again, I will do so with my head held high. "
Ricardo Lovaglio is the secretary general of the CGT North zone and was a guard of the MItre line.
Why did they mobilize just the day the opposition did?
Isn't that also provoking?
Don't they make any self-criticism about older people who were beaten up by much younger and more robust trade unionists?
Is it so true that, with all the police, they couldn't leave peacefully before everything got out of hand?
Lovaglio responds that he does not remove the tail from the syringe because of what happened.
Retruca insisting that "our colleagues experienced a lot of aggressions, from spitting and insults to punches and stones. The photos and videos shown by the media are always on the side of the protesters against the Government. I myself saw several among them. former commissioners of the Buenos Aires ", he assures.
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