'Lo de Néstor': the story of the ultra-Kirchnerista bar that received $36 million in subsidies and does not provide any social service

"A bar to continue discussing the project" is the leitmotif included in the Instagram account of "Lo de Néstor", the ultra-Kirchnerista restaurant located in San Telmo, at Bolívar 548, which defines itself as "cooperative" and which works , supposedly, from the income generated by the diners who visit it and enjoy the shows that are given there.

"Lo de Néstor" is a commercial enterprise of

, a union leader close to the president, President Alberto Fernández and the social reference Juan Grabois, who is in charge of Gestara, the group of social companies and self-managed workers of the Argentine Republic.

Simply, like any other gastronomic project, invoice.

That is why it is surprising that it appears on the list of cooperatives that receive funds from the State in a discretionary manner, to which

had access .

And that it has collected

.

It is an official subsidy for which, in fact, it is unknown what it is used for.

The

has been collecting state funds since 2021, even in times of pandemic where the bar was mostly closed.

That year he received $14,928,000.

The distribution of these funds was carried out through two boxes: on the one hand, $12,420,000 was sent to Gestara, the union led by Leonardo Duva, while the remaining $2,508,000 were transferred to the "Lo de Néstor" bar itself. ".

The dynamic was repeated in 2022 and also in the first quarter of this year.

Last year, the company names that are in the name of Duva collected another $33,013,039, which were distributed inversely: $31,813,039 went to "Lo de Néstor" and another $1,200,000 to Gestara. 

Until March 31, there were more transfers: $2,981,666 to "Lo de Néstor".

If they are added to the resources of 2022, they would be total subsidies in the last 15 months for $35,994,039, on the edge of the global $36 million.

.

"Lo de Néstor is legally listed as a bar with

. And it is promoted in networks as a place self-managed by workers where the entire supply chain is carried out by cooperatives.

The bar is an area of ​​political propaganda for Kirchnerism and Peronism.

Political talks and conferences and some shows are held at night.

An image of the Lo de Néstor bar, in the San Telmo area.

The owner, a trade unionist close to Alberto F.

Leonardo Duva is 46 years old, he is the owner of Gestara and owner of the bar "Lo de Néstor"

.

He manages both company names, which are domiciled in the AFIP records with a difference of one block: one at Bolívar 548 and the other at Bolívar 646, both in the San Telmo neighborhood.

However, Duva's tax domicile is Pasaje Danel 1417, between the Boedo and Once neighborhoods, where the headquarters of the La Nacional Comprehensive Service Cooperative are located, which does not have any further data other than some related to the sector. kiosk supply wholesaler.

On the other hand, Cooperativa de Trabajo La Nacional Ltd is registered in the registry of Inaes entities at another address: General Urquiza 480, in Balvanera.

In his social networks Duva is very active,

, among others.

Those who know him closely also refer to a friendly relationship with the social leader Juan Grabois.

Last March,

revealed a series of irregularities in the discretionary distribution of funds to different associations and cooperatives on behalf of the National State.

The most notorious case was the million-dollar transfers sent to El Sueño del Principito, a civil association that is in charge of Mariana Larrea Gadea, an official of the Ministry of Social Development, who is precisely the one who transferred those $ 1,019 million.

Of that total amount

, from November 18 to December 28.

As with Lo de Néstor, Larrea Gadea is the owner of another ultra-Kirchner restaurant in the San Telmo area, El Justicialista, together with his partner, the official from the municipality of Avellaneda, Mariano Buglione.