The
General Confederation of Labor (CGT)
launched a harsh statement this Monday against the Minister of Human Capital, Sandra Pettovello, who did not receive this morning the picketers who claimed in front of her portfolio for food for soup kitchens, despite the fact that she had said last Thursday that he was going to serve "people who are hungry" "one by one."
"Are people hungry? Let them come...
I am going to serve the people who are hungry one by one
," said the official in an ironic video that the CGT shared on Friday through He finished with part of the song
Exculpe el Señor
, by Joan Manuel Serrat, who sings that "there are a couple of poor people" who "do not ask for alms", but rather "they are poor who have nothing at all."
Despite her statements, the minister did not receive the picketing groups that demonstrated this Monday in front of her portfolio's headquarters.
"
I did not summon the people to be under the sun, the leaders summoned them
. The other day, seeing them at the door of the ministry, I went down to attend to them due to a specific situation. But this time I am not going to receive them because I am not "I summoned them. They were the leaders who use people and make them stand in line under the sun," he apologized.
Hours after that refusal, late at night, the CGT published a
strong statement
on social networks , which it titled ironically in reference to Pettovello's statements:
"Guys, are you hungry?"
.
What the CGT's strong statement against Sandra Pettovello says
"
With this arrogant, insensitive and discriminatory phrase
, the minister exhibited the political attitude of the national government in the face of the claims that social organizations make after the cut in state aid in food for community kitchens and soup kitchens," she began.
He then stressed that "the last link of human dignity is exhausted when the most basic need, which is to feed, cannot be met," while claiming that "in the face of the urgent condition of hunger, there can be no other priority." than an active response and an attitude of elementary compassion, prior to any ideological position.
"GUYS: ARE YOU HUNGRY?"
⚠️ This hunger row shows the cruelest face of our challenges as leaders and also as natural inhabitants of a Nation
📣 That is why we warn: it is not with the arrogance of closing the doors to those who complain, nor with the… pic.twitter .com/yjm4tYomPW
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With a
surprising and implicit criticism of the Government of Alberto Fernández
, the CGT recognized that the people have been "punished for a long time by the scourge of
inflation", which "unfortunate or inefficient government efforts could not or did not know how to channel
for the well-being of the vast majority of the population".
On the other hand, he emphasized that "the risk of a food crisis with unforeseeable consequences is just around the corner," since "the different economic variables" are "composing an unusually critical panorama for the coming months."
The Minister of Human Development Sandra Pettovello has come out to the hall.
Excuse me... pic.twitter.com/EInFFaVaBB
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"That is why we warn:
it is not with the arrogance of closing the doors to those who complain
, nor with the indifference of turning a deaf ear to those who need, that we will be able to move forward within a framework of sanity and dialogue towards solutions," he concluded.
IS