by The camp carried out by social movements this Tuesday in front of the headquarters of the Ministry of Social Development on Avenida 9 de Julio culminated in drastic measures of force and riots that included the seizure of the annex to the social portfolio building, at Bernardo de Irigoyen 272, as well as the burning tires on public roads. “We don’t see each other in here until we get an answer”They threatened the leaders of the Piquetera Unit.
“After several unsuccessful meetings and thousands of emptied and unsupplied dining rooms for four and up to 5 months, we find that the officials who attended the meeting of the massive mobilization throughout the country and who finished meetings with the unit do not bring any response nor any explanation of why they have emptied the soup kitchens,” the piquetero leaders expressed in a statement.
Within the framework of the protests carried out to demand increases in social plans, a new chaotic day was seen in Buenos Aires traffic.
The protest was from the groups that make up Picket Unitits protesters burned tires on the main artery of the City to prevent the passage of vehicles, criticizing the Government for alleged diversions of food destined for soup kitchens.
The main focus of the mobilization was in the City of Buenos Aires, where the protesters arrived after 10 o’clock from Plaza Alsina, in the Avellaneda district of Buenos Aires.
In the midst of the total blockade of Avenida 9 de Julio, the protesters carried banners with slogans such as “Tolosa and Massa = Hunger” and “Stop using food for your political campaigns.”
After 7:00 p.m., they began to set up the tents to spend the night in front of the headquarters of the social portfolio at a time when a rain was unleashed on the City of Buenos Aires and some of the protesters were secluded under the roofs of the Metrobús lanes to march. avoid getting wet.
For his part, the UP leader, Eduardo Belliboni, together with a group of protesters, settled in the annex sector of the Social Development headquarters and noted that they were not going to move from there until they had “an answer” from the authorities. of the Ministry to their demands.
“The Piquetero Unit remains inside the Ministry of Development Annex Bernardo de Irigoyen 272”, information on social networks, along with a photo of Belliboni and his companions waving a UP flag inside the facilities of the portfolio directed by Victoria Tolosa Paz.
“After several unsuccessful meetings and thousands of empty and unstocked dining rooms for four and even five months, we find that the officials who attended the meeting of the massive mobilization throughout the country and who finished meetings with the unit do not bring any response or any explanation of why they have emptied the soup kitchens,” denounced the group in a statement.
The day included a total of 87 cuts on different routes in the country: the pickets descended on Buenos Aires cities such as Mar del Plata, Bahía Blanca, San Nicolás, as well as in provinces such as Catamarca, Chaco, Chubut, Córdoba, Entre Ríos, Formosa, Jujuy, Mendoza and Misiones, among others.
The national protest had been announced last Friday at a press conference at the Obelisk in which representatives of the Polo Obrero and the Left Front (FIT) participated together with Mercedes “Mecha” Martínez, from the Coordinadora de Unidad Barrial Movimiento Teresa group. Rodriguez (MTR); Mónica Sulle, from the Socialist Movement of Workers (MST); and Cristina Mena, from the MTR, among others.
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