The links and business of the mysterious trade unionist who collected millions from Social Development

Owner of a well-known Peronist restaurant in San Telmo, a militant with her own group in Avellaneda, and a UPCN trade unionist who is suspected of growing assets in recent years.

That is the profile of Mariana Larrea Gadea, the union leader pointed out for her links with the El Sueño del Principito civil association, which during 2022 received transfers from the State for $1,019 million, recognized by the Government after a note from Clarín,

the which $633 million were made in the management of Victoria Tolosa Paz, from November 18 to December 28 of last year.

The revelation about the millionaire discretionary funds transferred by the Government to the civil association of La Matanza sparked a strong controversy that led to the request for reports from the opposition in the National Congress to the Minister of Social Development Victoria Tolosa Paz.

It was the deputies Cristian Ritondo and Alejandro Finocchiaro who asked the Government for details of the administrative acts that support the transfers to the civil association responsible for the nursery in the town of Isidro Casanova, which is found within the Connaf, the entity that presides over Larrea Gadea.

Mariana Larrea Gadea, the UPCN unionist in Social Development.

UPCN union member, Larrea Gadea, 47,

, since she has been militant within Peronism since the years she lived in Merlo.

However, before the last decade she settled in Avellaneda, where she met Mariano Buglione, his current partner and a reference for the municipality in the southern Conurbano, where he is identified as a political leader of the Frente de Todos.

Together, Larrea Gadea and Buglione led the "Third Position" space in 2011, with which they participated in several municipal elections of the extinct Front for Victory.

"Our group arises from the meeting of multiple social actors who, for years, have been working on the construction of this space, and fundamentally because the needs of our people do not find a response in those who must manage them", Buglione said then, in the act of launch.

Buglione, 43, has a long-standing militancy.

In the Single Registry of Audiences of the Ministry of the Interior there is a meeting that he had in 2006 with a Social Development official, in his role as Secretary of Youth of Avellaneda.

His partner's ties to Social Development are much closer: in his role as UPCN trade unionist before that portfolio, he passed through the ministry at least four times last year according to official data.

And as head of Connaf, with direct links to El Sueño del Principito, she managed disbursements for $1,019 million in 2022.

Larrea Gadea and her partner, Mariano Buglione, leading a list in Avellaneda.

Peronist militants, in 2020, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic

almost on the corner of Paseo Colón, in the San Telmo neighborhood.

Over time, it became a classic within the K cultural circuit, since historical images of Juan Domingo and Eva Perón can be seen there.

"The first bar we ventured into is El gran lío de Viamonte at 1500, now we are looking for a space to try traditional dishes and get closer to Justicialist thought," Larrea Gadea and Buglione told the BAE newspaper at the time of the inauguration, which

coincided with the start of the government of Alberto Fernández, in the same area, precisely, where the president had his campaign bunker.

Located in an old house with more than three floors, it has a space for a bar and rooms used for work meetings.

In these years, various exhibitions of artists of the time were offered there, political activities were carried out and there were talks on economics, philosophy and current affairs.

Clarín

went to the bar to see how it currently works, but according to residents of the area it has been closed since the beginning of the year.

He also tried to communicate with Larrea Gadea, but was unsuccessful.

Buglione and Larrea Gadea live in Sarandí.

The relationship with the neighbors does not seem to be good.

The relationship with the neighbors does not seem to be good.

In a Facebook portal for residents of Villa Domínico, they are accused of having built a house "in all luxury, with central air conditioning, a giant barbecue area and movie furniture."

In addition, they denounce that they bought another house in cash to renovate and that they move in two new trucks.