Controversy in Social Development: pro-government piqueteros manage a box of more than $600,000 million

"We are not the ministry of the piqueteros", was the phrase used by

last week, in the midst of the conflict over the encampment on July 9, almost as if seeking to remove a label with which the most explosive and difficult bag hangs. to manage all those that the government of Alberto Fernández has today.

Tolosa Paz has led

against the left-wing piqueteros, led by Eduardo Belliboni and Silvia Saravia, from the Polo Obrero and Libres del Sur, in permanent complaint about the distribution of the funds from Potenciar Trabajo, but definitely in crisis afterwards that the minister decided

who did not re-register.

However, along the way, Tolosa Paz, like Juan Zabaleta and Daniel Arroyo before in their steps as ministers, missed a piece of information that feeds the label of "piquetero ministry": most of the important positions in Social Development

, often confronted, that manage superior boxes, in the global, to $ 600,000 million.

Emilio Pérsico, from the Evita Movement, manages $600,000 million annually. Photo: Emmanuel Fernández.

Who is who in the universe of piqueteros friends of Alberto Fernández

The Ministry of Social Development represents a large universe of positions and funds that are distributed among leaders included in the ranks of the Frente de Todos.

The most emblematic case is that of

, behind Tolosa Paz, the most powerful official in the social portfolio.

An ally of President Alberto Fernández,

, which is centrally in charge of the most relevant program of all those in the State, only below the social security allocations. that manages ANSeS.

Empowering Work has been in the crosshairs of all piquetero groups since the beginning of Fernández's term.

It began as a much smaller box than Food Policies, the one that delivers the Alimentar Card, and now it far exceeds it.

This 2023, Pérsico will be in charge of more than

, of which in a month and a half he has already used almost $50,000 million.

From there the benefit will be paid to more than 1.2 million people, without counting the 100,000 that Tolosa Paz reduced.

made to these people.

The ill-considered suggest that they can go to swell the coffers of the Evita Movement.

The calculation is easy: $33,800 is the current amount of the Potenciar Trabajo, that is, half the Minimum Wage.

If it is multiplied by the beneficiaries terminated, it is $3.380 million that Social Development should stop paying in March.

El Evita, with Pérsico as a reference point and Fernando "Chino" Navarro, an official in the Cabinet Office, as a leader, is the social movement that has the most beneficiaries.

"Only Emilio knows," officials from the past Development administration said a long time ago, consulted by

, regarding the number of Evita affiliates who charge plans.

.

Daniel Menéndez, Social Development official and piquetero leader.

There is another leader who weighs heavily in the Social Development internship, even without the cash management that Pérsico has.

This is

, Undersecretary for Integration and Training Policies, who is also the main reference of Somos Barrios de Pie, the other piquetero conglomerate allied to the Government that has a list of beneficiaries estimated at 60,000 as a floor.

Of course,

also plays in the internal team, represented by Ramona Fernanda Miño, who is the current secretary of Socio-Urban Integration, with a "humble" annual budget of $11,123 million.

Grabois had another important referent in the Ministry, who was

, national director of Integrative Policies until November, when Pérsico decided to fire him for not being aligned with the ministry's policies.

Some time later Klejzer, from his group La Dignidad, was one of those who promoted citizen price control in supermarkets.

La Cámpora funds and discretionary funds

However, the other large social fund is administered by La Cámpora, although more efficiently than Pérsico with Potenciar Trabajo.

, leader of the group led by Máximo Kirchner, with a budget of $442,000 million in charge of which has already executed more than $78,000 million, all destined to pay the Food Card.

El Evita and La Cámpora have maintained an undisguised confrontation in Social Development for years.

Pérsico, over time, was "eating" cash from Food Policies, ensuring permanent reassignments of items and currently managing an exact 33% more resources than La Cámpora.

When the management began, in 2020, those numbers were inverse.

Esteban "Gringo" Castro, with Juan Grabois, in a march

Not only these "white" boxes are the ones that the State administers in social plans.

Last October,

revealed that from 2020 to 2022, a discretionary $10 billion was paid to social organizations related to the Government, outside the distribution of plans.

The

was the one that received the most funds since January 2020, with more than $799 million, which when converted to dollars is US$5.9 million.

Only in the first half of this year, $172.8 million was transferred to him;

that is, the equivalent of US$ 1.53 million.

The cooperative is one of the many that are part of the CTEP, an entity jointly commanded by government-aligned leaders such as Grabois, Pérsico and Esteban "Gringo" Castro, once defined as "Alberto Fernández's favorite piquetero", who at his time is the husband of the mayor of Moreno, Mariel Fernández.

In third place in the ranking of payments to social organizations, there is also another group related to Pérsico and the Evita Movement.

This is the

, which fulfills the role of executing unit for plans such as Potenciar Trabajo and received $645.5 million, about US$4.8 million.

Located in Esteban Echeverría, according to sources in the sector, it covers popular neighborhoods of the entire third electoral section with social resources.