Militants from the
Union of Workers of the Popular Economy
(UTEP) gathered this Thursday in front of different supermarkets in the City and the suburbs to demand food.
They do it under a
"national day of empty pots"
, with the aim of claiming
food assistance for community kitchens
.
The UTEP carried out its new "empty pots" protest with the slogan "The only need and urgency is hunger."
Social organizations mobilized in various parts of Greater Buenos Aires.
One of the food demands was at a Coto supermarket located in the center of the town of San Martín.
"About 150 protesters gathered for a while before noon on the sidewalk of the store. They stayed for half an hour and then the police broke them up. They had warned them to stay on the sidewalk and not to block the street.
The supermarket closed the doors
," he said. a neighbor who was on her way to the branch at that time.
Similar mobilizations occurred in the town of Almirante Brown (13500 Hipólito Yrigoyen Avenue);
in La Plata (7th Avenue and 48th Street);
in Florencio Varela (Work Avenue and San Martín Avenue);
and at the headquarters of the La Serenísima food company located at 957 Almirante Brown Avenue, in the Buenos Aires town of General Rodríguez.
Piqueteros demand food at the Carrefour on Ruta 3 and Calderón la Barca.
Photo Guillermo Rodríguez Adami
There are also concentrations at the Carrefour in Lomas de Zamora and at the Hiper Chango Más in La Tablada.
Similar mobilizations occurred in the
provinces of Córdoba, Salta, Mendoza and Chaco
.
"For some time now we have been making visible the food reality of our neighborhoods where the demand for food and the lack of concrete action to resolve it increases day by day. Hunger is not today, but the adjustment measures and permanent increase in prices of food makes the lines to get a plate of food increasingly longer, and the food less every day," UTEP noted when making the call.
The leaders of the organization said that from the Ministry of Human Capital they committed that "the priority is and will be that no Argentine goes hungry," but they warned that "we see that it only represents empty media slogans, and there is no progress in concrete responses ".
Piqueteros demand food at the Carrefour on Ruta 3 and Calderón la Barca, La Matanza.
Photo Guillermo Rodriguez Adami
The Retiro mansion where Sandra Pettovello works was precisely one of the points of the protest.
In
Juncal and Carlos Pellegrin
i, the UTEP leaders denounced "inaction on the part of that Ministry in the fight against hunger."
Minutes later, some incidents were recorded between the protesters and the security personnel of the place, along with members of the Federal Police, according to members of the organizing organizations.
Meanwhile, Minister Pettovello went out into the street and confronted the picketers.
There she redoubled her announcement that she will attend to the food needs of "the people", without the intermediation of organizations.