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New picket threat for the mega Easter holiday: what access do they want to cut

2024-03-20T22:22:45.792Z

Highlights: New picket threat for the mega Easter holiday: what access do they want to cut. Left-wing and Peronist organizations blocked entry to the City this week. Now they are raising a massive claim for next Wednesday. Social movements are evaluating at this time cutting routes and access to the country's main tourist centers at the beginning of the extra long Easter holiday. Without dialogue with the Government, they maintain the claim for the sending of food to canteens and with the criminal complaint to the head of the Evita Movement Emilio Pérsico on the table.


They are the left-wing and Peronist organizations that blocked entry to the City this week. Now they are raising a massive claim for next Wednesday.


Social movements are evaluating at this time

cutting routes and access

to the country's main tourist centers at the beginning of the

extra long Easter holiday

.

Without dialogue with the Government and while they maintain the claim for the

sending of food to canteens

and with the

criminal complaint from the Ministry of Human Capital

to the head of the Evita Movement

Emilio Pérsico

on the table, the organizations

close to Peronism and those on the left

redouble his

challenge to the economic

and social policy of Javier Milei and the

anti-picketing protocol of Patricia Bullrich

.

The leaders of the groups grouped in the UTEP and the Piquetera Unit will meet again this Friday to define

a common fight plan

, the last chapter of which was replicated this Monday on provincial routes throughout the country, with incidents between the Police and the

protesters in Puente Pueyrredón and Puente Saavedra

.

Monday was friendly, what is coming will be harder

,” warned an articulator of the movements with greater power of convocation.

Social organizations have so far

avoided cuts on important routes

,

massive mobilizations in the City

and more powerful actions at the

doors of supermarkets

than the petitions they distributed in

several chains on February 1

.

With this horizon, several of the top social leaders propose cutting on Wednesday, at the beginning of the XXL Easter holiday and April 2, the routes with

high tourist traffic

such as

Route 2, Pan-American and Route 3

in the south.

Without concern for the political cost, they pressure for the Government to receive them or resolve some of their demands.

The alternative of escalating the protests was discussed on Monday at the weekly meeting of the Evita national board.

Protests on the rise.

Cut at Route 3 and Gral Paz, on Monday.

Photo: Enrique García Medina

Social movements are redoubling pressure against the Government days after the Ministry of Human Capital led by

Sandra Pettovello denounced Pérsico

, former Secretary of Social Economy and head of Evita, the most popular social organization, for alleged fraud against the public administration.

For social leaders, the complaint against Pérsico is an attempt to

politically discipline the social movements

that demand the immediate shipment of dry food to the canteens.

“These people are easy, when they take remedies from the elderly, they look for corruption in the PAMI.

When we mobilize for hunger, they attack a social leader

,” noted the former official, who has not yet received sound solidarity from the leaders of the former Frente de Todos that he actively joined.

The Government is calling for a tender - through the United Nations UNDP program - to send dry food to soup kitchens.

In Human Capital they point out that the shipment of dry food will only represent

4% of the food policy expenditure concentrated in the Alimentar Card

.

Pettovello wants to expand the Alimentar Comunidad card - so that those responsible can buy fresh and dry food - from

2 thousand to 4 thousand canteens until reaching 8 thousand

.

In the national registry of soup kitchens there are

44 thousand establishments registered

, but the Government estimates that

there are no more than 12 thousand

.

Before the picket

that they are preparing for next week and that could

test

the

operational capacity of the federal forces

led by Bullrich, the social leaders of the UTEP led by the Evitista

Alejandro Gramajo,

Pérsico's right hand in Social Development, will make a demonstration of force in the demonstration for Remembrance Day, on March 24, together with the CGT.

Piquetazo in Liniers.

Photo: Enrique García Medina

Evita and the labor union maintain a programmatic alliance that will have a separate chapter within the

Buenos Aires PJ

where they will present a common list to compete for places with the sector of Juan Manuel Olmos and the camper Mariano Recalde.

The organizations also secured a seat at the nascent and convulsed

political action table of national Peronism

that will be put into operation on Friday at the Ferro microstadium.

Source: clarin

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