The cash with which the State finances the piqueteros
increased by 135% in one year and already reaches $14,000 million
.
The information comes from data from the sector, which compares the growth of
discretionary transfers
that occurred during 2022 to social organizations, among which the allies of Casa Rosada predominate.
The data came out the day after a
Clarín
investigation revealed that the civil association of a union leader who works in the Ministry of Social Development had received more than $1,000 million in the second half of last year.
The $14,000 million that was transferred to piqueteros in 2022 far exceeded the resources that social organizations obtained discretionally in 2021. While
last year funds of $14,004 million were sent to associations and cooperatives
, in the
previous year the figure reached $5.960 million
.
Exactly, it increased 135% in just one year.
Measured in dollars, at an average official price of $137.10, the
transfers climbed to US$100 million
.
Civil associations received transfers for US$43 million, while cooperatives did so for US$57 million.
In 2021, in total, between the two, they had collected US$ 42 million, also 135% less.
It is a key box for the piqueteros, who
finance from there the street blockades and the protests
that they carry out periodically throughout the country, in addition to carrying out
assistance tasks in popular neighborhoods
.
The funds come from ministerial items that are not included in the forms for social spending and
are delivered without criteria to social organizations
, for the most part, allied to the government of Alberto Fernández.
Picketers "friends", the most favored
This newspaper had exclusive access to an extensive list of associations and cooperatives that receive these state resources.
For the first time, it is led by an organization that did not appear in previous surveys, "El Sueño del Principito", linked to Mariana Larrea Gadea, a UPCN union member in Social Development, the ministry led by Victoria Tolosa Paz.
Only in the last semester $1,019 million entered its coffers.
Mariana Larrea Gadea, the unionist of UPCN in Social Development.
The top 5 organizations that received the most transfers are made up, for the most part, of piquetero associations that are friends of the Government, such as
Juan Grabois, Emilio Pérsico, Daniel Menéndez, Esteban "Gringo" Castro and Juan Carlos Alderete
, among others.
But there are also succulent resources collected by organizations that lead wayward piqueteros, such as Eduardo Belliboni and Silvia Saravia, from the Polo Obrero and Libres del Sur, critics of the social policy carried out by the ministry led by Tolosa Paz.
Esteban Castro, Daniel Menéndez and Juan Carlos Alderete, three of the benefited social leaders.
Photo: Diego Waldmann.
For the first time in a long time, Juan Grabois will not be able to boast of being the social leader who receives the most resources from the State in this discretionary distribution.
The irruption of "El Sueño del Principito" left El Amanecer de los Cartoneros
, the Banfield association that responds to the Grabois MTE-CTEP, which in 2022 closed with income of $254,086,547, or US$ 1,853,956, was
far behind.
, if the dollar is taken at an annual average of $137.10.
To the point that, even collecting millions in figures, it was in third place, behind
Ceytis
, the only organization that receives the most funds with which no political ties could be established, and which obtained state funds for $305,159,498, the equivalent to US$ 2,226,613.
Fourth on the list is
Ser.Cu.PO
, which responds directly to the Evita Movement of Emilio Pérsico and Fernando "Chino" Navarro, with transfers received for $157,145,401, or US$1,146,620.
Fifth, for its part, is 18 de Mayo, which belongs to the MP La Dignidad, led by
Rafael Klejzer
, a piquetero close to Grabois who three months ago was fired by Pérsico from his position as director of Integrative Policies in the Ministry of Social Development.
In the 12 months of 2022 he received $147,749,109, which represents about US$1,078,059.
In the global of the dozens of associations that exist in the piquetero universe, they
received funds for US$47,096,314
, more than double the US$22,805,260 of 2021. In pesos, they are
$6,454 million
.
Cooperatives, with the same actors
Among all the piquetero cooperatives, in 2022 they collected a total of $7,549.7 million, which when converted to dollars is equivalent to US$53,645,340.
The leader is Gustavo Rearte LTDA, from UTEP, but later he is followed by organizations that also belong to his referents, such as Pérsico, Castro and Grabois.
The first in the ranking is a cooperative named after the left-wing Peronism union leader who bore that name, founder of the JP, who died in 1973. In the second half of 2022, it obtained financing for $230.8 million, the equivalent to US$1.68 million.
Second and third are the Federation of Recycling Cooperatives and the Evita Limited Federation, with funds of $197.5 million and $143.4 million, respectively, which in dollars, added together, reach US$ 2.5 million throughout the year.
Juan Grabois, with Axel Kicillof.
He is another of the most favored social leaders in the cast.
Fourth and fifth there are two associations of the
Classist and Combative Current of the national deputy Juan Carlos Alderete
, named as El Fortín de Encarnación and René Salamanca, with resources of more than $138.5 million and $98.4 million.
In dollars, added together, they reach US$ 1.7 million.
In the rest of the associations and cooperatives, the ones that make up
the UTEP team
stand out even more, although there are also others that belong to piquetero movements that are unruly with the Government, which are the ones that demand more quotas for Potenciar Trabajo and have been systematically camping in the July 9th.
For example,
Eduardo Belliboni's Polo Obrero billed $25,331,250 last year
, or US$225,637 measured in foreign currency.
In the last three years, meanwhile, it has achieved transfers for US$222,876,743, or US$1,532,979.
Where do the resources come from?
The funds that are distributed arise from the budget, but are not directly part of the most emblematic programs of the Ministry of Social Development, which are Strengthening
Work and Food Policies
, which
between them will represent in 2023 for the Government an outlay of more than $1 trillion.
Thus, those that are analyzed are transfers that come from different areas of the State, such as Social Development (Socio-Urban Integration, Social Economy and Territorial Approach), but also from programs of the Ministry of Labor (Employment Actions, Training Actions) and the Ministry of Productive Development (Assistance to Cooperative and Mutual Activity).
The amounts allocated in a discretionary manner to social organizations and cooperatives
are not open to the public,
as is the case with other state expenses.
From this it was that in 2021, the radical deputies Facundo Suárez Lastra and Fabio Quetglas requested in Congress that the list and funds received by public and private institutions that benefited from budget allocations related to the social sphere be reported.
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