08/18/2021 9:46 AM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 08/18/2021 11:40 AM
Social organizations will mobilize this Wednesday to the Ministry of Development and the Obelisk
to ask for "genuine work" and more social assistance
, in a new day of protests that will affect the circulation throughout the Buenos Aires center.
The Polo Obrero, along with other organizations, will carry out a
"piquetera fight day"
, which will begin with a concentration of militants in the Pueyrredón Bridge, will continue with a march to the Ministry of Social Development and will conclude with an act at the Obelisk.
Faced with a large presence of security forces, the militants try to climb the bridge, which is already interrupted in both hands.
While in front of the ministerial headquarters there are already people with banners interrupting the circulation on the 9 de Julio.
Downtown Buenos Aires is already a traffic chaos.
"
Genuine
work, public works and housing plans now, increase in the cost of the Vital and mobile minimum wage,
opening of social programs
for all those who need it, comprehensive assistance to the soup kitchens", are the specific claims.
The protest day, which is expected to be massive, will keep different streets in the center of Buenos Aires cut for several hours when the columns of militants enter the Capital, so a complicated day is expected to circulate through traffic.
The ministers Martín Guzmán and Juan Zabaleta met days ago to diagram the future of the employment plans.
The new mobilization takes place days after a meeting between the Ministers of Economy and Social Development, Martín Guzmán and Juan Zabaleta, who began to outline the future of employment plans and relativized the possibility of implementing a universal salary.
The officials "agreed on the importance of investment in infrastructure in popular neighborhoods and discussed the need to associate the transfer of income to training and work and agreed to continue working together in an articulated way on the common agenda," according to sources. of both ministries through an official statement.
Despite the government's concern about the social situation, the protest does not give way in the streets and the picketers, who welcomed Zabaleta before being sworn in as minister, protested again in front of Desarrollo.
On Tuesday, people identified with the Túpac Amaru Movement (without ties to the Túpac Amaru Neighborhood Organization founded by Milagro Sala), cut off traffic for several hours at the Pueyrredón Bridge, which led to incidents with members of the Federal Police and the Naval Prefecture.
The cut began at noon, with an interruption in both directions, then a negotiation began with officials from the Ministry of Security who appeared at the place to open a channel for dialogue, while the protesters presented their claims, based on work and food for 15 picnic areas located in Esteban Echeverría, Lomas de Zamora and La Matanza.
The protest lasted from noon to late afternoon, affected traffic at the access that connects the Avellaneda district with the City of Buenos Aires and caused many vehicles to be stopped or had to make detours to enter or leave the territory porteño.
Around 3:30 p.m., as a result of the mediation with Security, a small group of representatives of the protest arrived at the headquarters of the Ministry of Social Development of the Nation to transfer their request to the representatives of the portfolio that the former mayor has headed for a week. from Hurlingham,
After 5:00 p.m., the Federal Police and the Naval Prefecture pushed with shields and threw pepper spray to dislodge the lane in the direction of the province of Buenos Aires, in a clash with protesting people that lasted a few minutes and ended with two arrests.
After 8 pm, after a new contact with Social Development, the dialogue was resumed until the act was finally signed and the place was evicted.
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