In the middle of a week where there were robberies to supermarkets and attempts to generate looting, the social and left-wing organizations that make up Picket Unit They demonstrated in downtown Buenos Aires and various parts of the country to demand assistance to soup kitchens, an increase in social programs and delivery of tools to cooperatives. “Faced with growing inflation, we demand that the Government fulfill its obligation and supply popular kitchens,” he explained. Eduardo Bellibonileader of the Polo Obrero.
In the City of Buenos Aires, the concentration began in the morning at the intersection of 9 de Julio and San Juan avenues; then it moved to the vicinity of the Ministry of Social Development and finally to the Palacio de Hacienda. The march ended in front of the Casa de Misiones to demand the release of Leonardo Bres, Josías Bres and Sergio Bres, militants detained in the Campo Viera municipality.
The protest generated long delays for drivers traveling from the Constitución area to the Obelisk, Congress and Plaza de Mayo, among other points. There were also cuts in the Pueyrredón Bridge, La Noria Bridge, Saavedra Bridge, Route 3, General Paz and Autopista del Oeste.
After their meeting with national officials on Wednesday, the Piquetero Fight Front He expressed yesterday that in the Government “there is a decision to assist the social crisis that afflicts millions of workers”, but “it has not yet set an amount for the increase in the programs or a specific date for the delivery of food.” That is why they declared themselves in a “state of mobilization and assembly” and denounced that the social crisis “is deepening with adjustment and repression that they intend to pass off as a direct order from the International Monetary Fund.”
The demonstrations were replicated in different provinces. In Jujuy, the organizations that make up the Piquetera Unit mobilized in the provincial capital and pointed against the government of the radical Gerardo Morales: “We are demanding that the kitchens and picnic areas be assisted in quality and quantity, without cuts. Only those who belong to the political banners that exist in Jujuy, to radicalism, receive help. The demonstrators also protested against the reform of the Constitution of Jujuy. Meanwhile in Mendoza The mobilization demanded “food”, “less adjustment” and “an increase in pensions and the Potenciar Trabajo plan”.
