This Friday the social movements and left-wing picketers carry out a series of protests in Argentina speaking out against the adjustment plan of the Government of Javier Milei and the policy that would be eliminating the mediation of these organizations in helping the most vulnerable.
As part of this protest, the Piquetero Fighting Frontmade up of the left-wing Polo Obrero movement, the Union of Workers of the Popular Economy (UTEP) and other social organizations, this Friday they carried out more than 500 roadblocks in Argentina.
Social movements also gathered in front of the Ministry of Human Capitalin Buenos Aires, denouncing what they called “an extremely hungry policy” after removing assistance from the more than 44,000 community kitchens throughout the country, on which thousands of families from vulnerable neighborhoods depend, in a context of high poverty and a annual food inflation that amounts to 296.2%.
In the midst of the protest, they highlighted that the Argentine president has desupplied neighborhood kitchens as part of the adjustment of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) while signing “million-dollar agreements with organizations linked to the evangelical and Catholic churches to outsource food assistance to them, in exchange for their containment services.”
Another of the picketers’ demands is an “emergency” increase in social programs and against the intention to disengage the value of the vital and mobile minimum wage.
In a statement from Ministry of Human Capitalindicated that they are committed to “eliminating intermediation” and that “the piqueteros organizations will no longer be in charge of distributing food and social plans paid for by the State.”
Likewise, they clarified that the purchase of dry food managed by social organizations represents only 4.2% of the state investment in food, and that it was decided that this distribution be allocated directly to the canteens that must account for the food they buy.
With this decision, they affirm, It seeks to end what it considers a “tool of extortion” and a “multimillion-dollar business for the cartel of food supply companies.”.
For now, after these events, the picketers “demanded” a new national strike and a plan to fight against this anti-worker offensive.
(With information from the EFE agency).
Source: Gestion
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