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The return to Buenos Aires classrooms: a decision that left the Casa Rosada exposed

2021-06-13T04:52:49.150Z


The President kept talking about restrictions until a short time before Kicillof revealed the good news.


Guido Carelli Lynch

06/11/2021 8:59 PM

  • Clarín.com

  • Politics

Updated 06/11/2021 10:09 PM

In the Government they assure that there were no cracks, but until late Thursday night they relativized the immediate possibility that the AMBA would abandon the sanitary status of epidemiological alarm, which allows the return to presence in the classrooms, as announced by the Buenos Aires governor

Axel Kicillof

.

That hypothesis had grown

after the meeting between the heads of the Nation, Province and City Cabinet, but as the hours passed, officials with an office in Balcarce 50 warned that the AMBA would not reach 500 Covid-19 infections per 100,000 inhabitants necessary to "rise" to high sanitary risk and make restrictions more flexible, as regulated by the epidemiological traffic light present in the presidential DNU. 


The President also said that

there would be no "changes"

in the next 14 days and the Executive insisted on stating that he was not referring to classes but to the letter of the decree.

Schools in the AMBA were closed on April 15 with

24,999 infections and 383 deaths

nationwide. Now they will reopen with

26,934 and 689 deceased

. In the Government they remember that the incidence rate is what changed. That time,

Alberto Fernández

was in charge of communicating the bad news, which Kicillof demanded with the endorsement of Cristina Kirchner. This time, the job of saying goodbye (and capitalizing on it) went to the governor.


The

arguments of the ruling party

were almost all public, in radio statements.

Carla Vizzotti

had been the first minister of the national government to open the door to a return to presence in the largest urban conglomerate in the country. “The AMBA started in a thousand cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days. And it is already reaching 700.

Reaching 500 allows leaving the alarm area

and

restarting schooling

. We are close, not everything has been said, ”the Health Minister was excited on Wednesday.

That same day, the Vice Minister of Health of the Province,

Nicolás Kreplak

, suggested maintaining the closures for another 3 weeks so as not to hinder the immunization process against the coronavirus that is completed between 15 and 20 days after the application of the vaccine. In the Buenos Aires governorate, after Axel Kicillof announced that the face-to-face classes would return on Wednesday, they justified the health reference of La Cámpora. "Kreplak in his statements is extremely careful because he considers that it is essential to maintain protocols and care," they explained close to the Buenos Aires president.

Kicillof, who met with Education Minister

Nicolás Trotta

on Thursday

, bowed to the health traffic light. "The objective indicators today place the AMBA in phase 3, if we committed ourselves to respect those parameters from day zero, we cannot deny ourselves today," explained the governor's side.

Finally

there was an agreement between the City and the Province

. Chiefs of Staff from both jurisdictions spoke by phone ahead of Kicillof's press conference and coordinated the

new nighttime circulation hours

. Until Thursday, the province stated that restrictions would only be relaxed on weekends. The measure will serve to alleviate the gastronomic and to honest

a reality that occurs in fact

, on the sides of General Paz. Rodríguez Larreta stressed

interjurisdictional coordination

 during his press conference. However, they clarified that the return of the Province to classes did surprise them. "We did not know. We warned that we were advancing with the bimodal return to high school," they highlighted at the small table of the head of Government.

Both governments

distrust each other

. In the Province they indicate that the opening of theaters and cinemas is out of phase 3. In the Capital they want to wait to see what the return to the classrooms announced by Kicillof will be like. "You have to see what

careful presence

is all about

," they say. The

PRO mayors

in the GBA believe that they managed to convince the governor, but in recent days there was no contact between the opposition mayors and the governor. "They

call

you

to videoconferences

when they are going to close, never when they are going to open,

" one of them ironically quipped.

On Thursday the infectologists who advise the Government

defended before Cafiero and Vizzotti the criteria of the

national epidemiological

traffic light

, they asked that there be no exceptions in their compliance; in this case it would have meant not hindering the return to school. They also warned of the need to

break up the two weeks of winter vacation

to avoid a third wave of infections. In the City they differentiated themselves again: they

criticize the traffic light because it does not take into account the tests

-whose importance in the health strategy Larreta emphasized in his conference- and they ratified the dates of the winter holidays as they were in the schedule. "It is about

giving predictability

", they affirmed in the Buenos Aires cabinet.

The Government was left offside with the statements of the Minister of Education who, like the President, maintained that there would be no changes in the criteria.

Trotta had already announced that the presence would not be interrupted, when

the President

ordered the closure of the schools in mid-April. 

This time, Buenos Aires Minister of Health

Daniel Gollan

hastened to announce that everything was ready for the return to presence.

In the Pizzurno Palace they pointed out that it was the misinterpretation and that the message was the same as that of the Province and they made it known that Gollan went out of the script by making public the announcement that Kicillof was supposed to communicate. Trotta's sayings were not better explained at the Casa Rosada. "What happened is that

since yesterday it fell sharply and

the incidence rate in the AMBA continues to drop and it continues to decline and perhaps

Nico

did not know that," they pointed out. In Education they insisted that everything is coordinated.

Although they do not say so in public, government officials affirm that it is necessary to

snatch the flag of presence

from Rodríguez Larreta.

“Now they are the champions of Education.

He is doing politics, but the divestment during the administration of (

Mauricio) Macri

was record, ”they affirm.

Trotta criticized the head of government continuously in recent weeks, like other officials of the Casa Rosada.

"He

walks the path of irresponsibility

and speculation," he said Thursday.

The minister reiterated to his collaborators the memory of the Federal Council of Education, which did not vote or comply with the

City, Córdoba and Mendoza

.

(Larreta) walks the path of irresponsibility and speculation, ”he said Thursday. 

In the Buenos Aires government headquarters, they recall that Education continues to be the authority of the districts, as the Supreme Court recalled in its recent ruling. The City already had defined to allow the partial return to the classrooms of any secondary students outside of the final definition of the national and provincial government. 

Source: clarin

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