Silvia Saravia
sits on the curb of the sidewalk, at the corner of 9 de Julio and Moreno, to take her blood pressure: 10.7 tells her one of the organization's colleagues who carries a blood pressure monitor.
"I went up a notch," smiles the leader of the Libres del Sur movement, who some three hours earlier, under a suffocating sun that forced the call to be delayed,
she broke down
in front of the cameras of Crónica Televisión.
Saravia, one of the 12 referents of the
Piquetera Unit block
that cuts the July 9, adjacent to the Ministry of Social Development, with multiple claims, had been with a fever last week.
She says that she still can't recover.
The extremely high temperatures played a trick on him.
Now it's barely 6 in the afternoon, the heat gives little respite but at least the shade and a slight breeze make the day a little more bearable.
Eduardo Belliboni
, head of the Polo Obrero, takes advantage of the device and also measures his pressure: 16.9 marks the tensiometer.
The man is wet: from time to time he drenches his head with water.
Official sources would later say that, like Saravia, he would also become ill due to the heat, and he should be treated by SAME.
In the surroundings there are a good number of piqueteros grouped in the Polo Obrero, the MST Teresa Vive, Libres del Sur, FOL and the Coordination for Social Change, among other organizations, overwhelmed by the heat wave and that, while it began to fall In the afternoon,
they promised to camp until Wednesday
if the ministry led by Victoria Tolosa Paz did not appear in any response to the claims.
It is not only the losses in the social plans or the money that is not enough: there are requests for the quality of the food in the soup kitchens and for the delivery of tools.
Some of the protesters emphasize that with the Potenciar Trabajo Program they cannot cope, that the job insecurity is total
and even worse than this - "we got jobs in Rappi or with the drug traffickers", they graph - and that the odds began to decrease in the last time due to increased materials and labor.
Better with macrismo?
"The discussion is political
," the minister had said early from Misiones, and asked
"not to use the poor
. "
The link with the piquetero bloc is very tense.
Noticeable.
Early in the day there was some contact with Emilio Pérsico's collaborators, but without any kind of progress.
In the cut they emphasize, for example, that
they had a better relationship with Juan Zabaleta or with Daniel Arroyo.
Even with macrismo
.
"Inflation ruins everything," remarks
Mónica Sulle
, from the MST.
"It's fight or steal," she adds, convinced of the action plan voted in assembly two Fridays ago.
That day, the climate issue was put on the table for debate.
It was already known that this week the heat wave would continue, but it was still decided to go ahead with the camp and the fight plan.
Of course:
they were "absolute", they swear, so that there are no boys and girls in the street blockade
.
The result is plain to see: on 9 de Julio and its surroundings there are almost no minors.
"Those who came is because the mothers could not leave them with anyone," they say.
It is that, to top it off, due to the high temperatures there were schools in Greater Buenos Aires and dining rooms that closed their doors.
The organizers actually devised a
plan so that there is a change of protesters in turns, many bottles of mineral water and plenty of ice
to cool them.
There are thermoses and little ice creams, many of them with packaged flavored ice.
The Metrobús was interrupted late in the afternoon -there are dozens of picketers sitting on folding chairs-, despite the presence of the City Police -scarce-, also overwhelmed by the heat, and the dialogue with some of the references by the authorities of the Ministry of Social Development of the City, without luck at the close of this edition.