Adrián Zárate claims to have a good wrist for the brush, although he admits that he hardly dedicates himself to his trade as a painter anymore.
"I am a proud Peronist from Hurlingham and I have been involved in politics
for a long time
. Because I like it and, in addition, it is better to live, heh."
From the end of 2021 and almost all of 2022, he was listed as an employee of the municipal hospital, despite the fact that there
was no
work for him there, as he admits.
Even he rarely went and no one controlled him.
Adrián Zárate distributing food in Hurlingham that La Cámpora sent him when he managed the municipality.
"The contract was given to me by La Cámpora when it was in charge of Hurlingham, but it was only 50 Lucas per month with the promise that they would increase it and they never did. Then they cut it off
"
;
He complains.
He does not feel anything strange when he affirms that his task was "to work with the people of my Roca neighborhood, in William Morris",
informing
the community authorities of the needs of the neighbors and other claims".
"I am also in charge of mobilizing for the events. Everyone here knows me and I call them many times
going house to house.
The Cámpora assigns me the buses and the food to distribute. No one is forced," he says.
Carlos Véliz was lost for five days in the streets of Buenos Aires after the act of March 24 that La Cámpora took him to.
But in the last mobilization on March 24, things did not go as planned, if they were planned at all.
As the journalist Ladrón de Guevara recounted in
Clarín,
Zárate went to look for Carlos Véliz, 54, with mental disabilities, who suffers from epileptic seizures and does not understand everything that happens around him.
They put him on a bus and take him to the event organized by Máximo Kichner's organization at the former ESMA to "commemorate the disappeared." They put on an "Orga" T-shirt. In exchange for attending, during the afternoon of that same One day the Véliz family received a
box
with noodles, rice and oil, among other merchandise.
Adrián Zárate admits that he takes people to events in La Cámpora.
He was given a $50,000 contract at Hurlingham.
But there was an oversight, not so small: Carlos Véliz
never
returned from the mobilization.
They forgot it on the spot and they only realized it when they were on the bus on their way to the Conurbano.
And since Carlos did not know how to return or realize what was happening, he spent
five days
wandering around the City lost.
Sleeping in the street and eating what he could.
They found him
five days later
at the corner of Juramento and Cabildo, somewhat skinnier and dirtier.
It could have been a tragedy.
"I went looking for him for the act, I admit it, and I was wrong. I
regret
having taken him. I didn't know it was so bad. But don't see me as heartless. I've already taken him to about
20 acts
and we never had any problem", Zárate defends himself in dialogue with
Clarín.
Véliz is mentally retarded and suffers from epilepsy.
Even so, they took him to an act, they forgot and a miracle tragedy did not happen.
And he adds: "The day he disappeared, we couldn't believe it. We made a terrible mistake. We realized that Carlos was not on the bus. We immediately went back and looked for him everywhere but he did not appear
.
"
"Then we filed the complaint at the police station. I was always in contact with the family. Even on Monday (the act had been on Friday), we gathered about 10 cars
with
colleagues from Hurlingham to do a search through the Capital. We did not locate him either. Fortunately they found it in Juramento and Cabildo", he recalls.
Returning to his tasks as a community employee, Zárate complains that his
contract
was cut when Juan Zabaleta returned as mayor of Hurlingham.
Zárate clarifies that he is not a member of La Cámpora but that he works for them and that his "Peronist" neighborhood group
accommodates
itself to municipal power.
"Although in the last act of the 24th we worked for La Cámpora, we are waiting to
negotiate
with the politicians. We will be next to the one who lowers contracts for the neighborhood compañeros. Whoever treats us better, will have a presence on our part in the neighborhood and people to take to the events," he says.
in the field
They deny
having lowered money, food or buses to Zárate to take people to the act of 24. They do admit that among the people who joined the municipality in the management of Damián Selci they gave him a contract.
From the other sidewalk, in the Municipality led by Zabaleta, they point out that they carried out a
survey
and detected that many of the contracts that his predecessor had given
were not
fulfilling their functions.
"La Cámpora made a disaster. Not only in management but they were also irresponsible with the municipal accounts by hiring 1,100 people who in most cases did not fulfill specific functions," they said.
Veliz's relatives assure that they had warned the leaders who ring the bell to invite the acts not to
come
looking for Carlos anymore due to his disability.
“My uncle speaks but does not reason one hundred percent.
That is why he cannot work and he supports himself with his disability pension ”, says his niece Camila González, 26 years old.
MR
