Guido Carelli Lynch
04/08/2021 18:28
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 04/08/2021 18:28
"
Without vaccines, without work and without food we cannot take it anymore,
" read the largest flag of the Polo Obrero, which this afternoon mobilized together with other opposition social organizations from the Ministry of Social Development to the Ministry of Labor.
The photo of tens of thousands of social activists in the streets and the
increase in
social
conflict
worries the Executive at the beginning of the virtual night curfew.
On the edge of the implementation of the new circulation restrictions to counteract the advance of the
second wave of coronavirus
, social organizations that are not aligned with the Executive made a
forceful show of force
.
About
15 thousand protesters
from the Polo Obrero, the MTR and Barrios de Pie, among other organizations, mobilized for the July 9 to the Labor portfolio, where they held a meeting with the delegates of Minister
Claudio Moroni
to demand the increase in
salary minimum vital and mobile
, on which depends the complementary social salary charged by almost 800 thousand workers in the popular economy.
The
Casa Rosada woke up fenced in the
face of possible mobilizations towards the Plaza de Mayo.
On Wednesday afternoon,
anti-vaccine groups
demonstrated in front of the Government House.
The issue was addressed at the meeting held by the Minister of Security
Sabina Frederic
with her small table and those responsible for the four federal forces.
The officials of this portfolio are usually regular interlocutors with the protesters who cut off accesses under federal jurisdiction, such as the Pueyrredón Bridge, national routes and the railways.
In this framework, progress is being made in a
meeting scheduled for Monday
at the Ministry of Social Development, with representatives of Security and social and picket organizations that do not agree with the ruling party.
Minister Daniel Arroyo will not attend and in his office they relativized the call.
However, the social organizations that this Thursday made the traffic collapse in downtown Buenos Aires made it known that from the Security portfolio
they raised a "truce" of 3 weeks
.
National officials preferred to avoid the term war, but they did acknowledge that there are talks to reduce social conflict and thus avoid an escalation of the outbreak that forces new restrictive measures that impact the economy.
That is the Executive's priority.
The mobilization of opposition organizations in front of the Ministry of Social Development Photo: Luciano Thieberger.
In the Government, the fractures within the piquetero movement are particularly worrying, as they measure forces in the street and even fight over their respective names.
While the official Polo Obrero interrupted traffic on July 9, the Polo Obrero Tendencia, led by
Eva Gutiérrez
, mobilized in Puente Pueyrredón and cut the Panamericana at the junction with Route 197. The same occurs with other movements such as the FAL, which already has 3 variants.
On Monday, Frederic will meet with the Internal Security Council, made up of the provincial ministers to agree on the support of the Nation in the provinces.
They emphasize that the coercion of the federal forces will definitely be less than that of April 2020, when 6 thousand checkpoints were deployed throughout the national territory.
“It seems important to us to sustain the sanitary measures.
We are not anti-vaccines.
We are not antiquarantine
.
So far we have only received attacks.
It is not the Government that has to ask us for a truce, we are the ones who have to ask the Government for a truce and that it comply with the commitments it assumed without cutting assistance ”,
Silvia Saravia
, representative of the Barrios branch
, told
Clarín
Standing non-official.
Eduardo Belliboni
, from the Polo Obrero traditional, said that he received a call from the Secretary of Federal Articulation of the Ministry of Security,
Gabriel Fuks
, to bring positions closer together.
"The truce is possible when there are tools.
The quarantine does not work with hunger,
" said the piquetero referent.
The Minister of Security knows that the federal forces and the provincial police will have to inexorably deal with demonstrations in the midst of the overloaded DISPO.
"To the extent that we do not have restricted our constitutional rights, such as that of demonstrating, we will negotiate and dialogue to avoid having concentrations that violate the decree, since the meetings cannot be of more than 20 people," he said in a media raid. .
In private they work so that the conflict scenario is less.
The pro-government organizations also claim
The opposition organizations not only left a petition in which they claim to
raise the minimum wage
to the equivalent of the basic basket ($ 58 thousand) received by the Undersecretary of Employment
Esteban Bogani
, who confirmed that the meeting of the Salary Council will be at the end of April .
They denounce that a good part of the more than 10,000 soup kitchens throughout the country did not receive the corresponding items - in bags of food and money - within the framework of an inflationary spiral that hits the price of food above all.
They also demand that the government include cafeteria and picnic workers as strategic personnel once they are vaccinated.
Arroyo was committed to raising that claim to the highest level.
Officials from his ministry assure that the promise will be announced soon by Arroyo and Health Minister Carla Vizzotti.
In Social Development they have already advanced that in the coming days there will be a food reinforcement in line with inflation.
"We are launching a reinforcement of food assistance," Arroyo confirmed in statements to América TV.
The social organizations that militate within the ruling party accuse the opponents of being irresponsible.
"The march in this epidemiological context is irresponsible," said Daniel Menéndez, Undersecretary of Social Economy for Social Development and head of the official branch of Barrios de Pie.
This Wednesday, two members of the organization died of complications from Covid-19.
However, there are coincidences between the referents of the mobilizations related to and contrary to the ruling party.
Everyone believes that if restrictions are increased, social assistance should increase.
"There is a social situation that requires an effort," added Menéndez.
Official sources suggested that the head of the Evita Movement Emilio Persico, secretary of the Social Economy, would pressure Martín Guzmán for a new departure for workers in the popular economy.
From Evita - the most populous movement - they did not deny the information but made it known that Arroyo is in charge of speaking with Guzmán in the economic-social Cabinet.
"There is the permanent commitment of the President to accompany him. We are going to take the necessary additional measures," Arroyo declared in the afternoon.
Last week, the head of State Alberto Fernández held a meeting alone in Olivos with the referents of the UTEP, which brings together workers from the main social organizations that militate within the ruling party and who have positions in the Executive and benches in the bloc of the Front of All.
The meeting was more political than social, almost contentious.
Two weeks ago, the Classist and Combative Current, of the deputy Juan Carlos Alderete, mobilized to pressure the ruling party to advance the Land, Roof and Work law that has been sleeping since September in Deputies.