The municipalities of La Quiaca and Abra Pampa, in the departments of Yavi and Cochinoca, came under pressure from the government of Jujuy. They are communes where not only the cuts on national route 9 remain firm, but also their deliberative councils demonstrated against the constitutional reform approved on June 20 in Jujuy. Due to these two factors, and being municipalities that are not friendly to the government of Gerardo MoralesLa Quiaca and Abra Pampa are enduring conflicts with their municipal employees because they have not yet received their salaries for June.
At press time, the La Quiaca mayor’s office was on fire. The municipal employees grouped in the SEOM and workers affiliated with ATE maintained the strike that began early yesterday morning and demanded before the councilors a prompt solution so that the municipality pays the salaries. like the quartermaster Blas Gallardo was in Buenos Aires on official business, the president of the Deliberative Council, Mary Esther Laimes, in charge of the Quiaqueño municipality, was in San Salvador de Jujuy. During the entire day yesterday, he negotiated with provincial officials responses for the delay in transfers that allow municipal salaries to be paid. About 700 people depended on that management.
“They had us all morning from 8 in the morning until 3 in the afternoon, from office to office, and they didn’t give any response,” Laimes complained. “They didn’t receive us in the afternoon either,” he explained to this medium late yesterday, while preparing his return to the Jujuy highlands.
“In La Quiaca an institutional coup is taking place,” denounced. “They are putting pressure on the second vice president, who has become unbalanced,” he said, referring to the councilor of the Frente de Todos Sergio Gorena. “This is a political squeeze,” she insisted. “We found the Minister of Economy in the corridors Charles Sadir“, he told about the brief meeting he had with the governor-elect of Jujuy. “We asked him that we need to deposit the missing part of the funds and he sent us to speak with the Secretary of the Interior (Hector) Freddy Morales, because he would surely have an answer. (But) He did not receive us,” Laimes said. “They owe us co-participatory concepts to pay salaries,” he later added, alluding to the financial assistance that the Jujuy government has transferred to the municipalities since 2005. municipality of La Quiaca”, he ironized. “They owe us exactly 66,823,642 pesos in Financial Aid. The municipality cannot afford that amount and now that they tell us it is a loan,” he added about the few responses he could find in the government of Gerardo Morales.
In La Quiaca, the Deliberative Council had been left in the hands of the councilors Hugo Barro and Felisa Nieveof Together for Change; Mirta Moscoso (PJ); Jorge Tejerina and Sergio Gorena, from the Front of All. The Quiaqueños media documented municipal workers when they pressured yesterday on the outskirts of the Council for the mayors to meet. At that point, María Ester Laimes had already communicated by telephone to all the community employees gathered in the courtyards of the Council building that the Jujuy government did not receive it and that it was impossible to reach an agreement or solution to pay salaries as soon as possible.
Around 6 in the afternoon, when the Council began to meet with the Frente de Todos in a minority, the ediles of the majority no longer exclusively sought to solve the payment of owed salaries. Celia Flores, SEOM delegate in La Quiaca, confirmed to this newspaper that “the municipal families request the suspension of the mayor” Blas Gallardo. Fueling the tension even more, councilor Hugo Barro, an ally of the Morales government, denounced in the Quiaqueño media that he was not allowed to review the municipal accounts.
The community chief from Quiaqueño, still in Buenos Aires, denounced after 6:00 p.m. on social networks that the “Deliberative Council with the endorsement of Governor Morales and Rubén Rivarola (leader of the Jujeño PJ)”, was “in session to suspend me from the position of mayor”. . He further explained that the government of Jujuy “forced councilors to sit in session, against their will and retaining them in the compound, depriving them of their freedom. One more of the many acts that break any democratic pact of a community,” he asserted. “The province is experiencing social, institutional and political chaos and no one escapes this savage and fascist persecution.”
During the early afternoon hours of yesterday Gallardo explained during an interview with this medium the reasons for his presence in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. “I met (on Tuesday) with officials from the National Institute of Indigenous Affairs and we were able to correct problems with the technical folders (of the territorial surveys). I am not on vacation,” he clarified. From the municipality of Abra Pampa, Ariel Machaca He only told this newspaper: “We are in a meeting to solve the problem.”
