Jorge Macri toured the neighborhood Eleven this Tuesday, when One month has passed since the operation that ended the manteros in the streets of that neighborhood. There, the neighbors showed their support for the measure, which they assure that It caused greater tranquility and security in the area. The head of Government toured the premises and reaffirmed his commitment to keeping the City’s public space orderly.
In relation to said operation, carried out by the Special Investigations Division of the City Police, he declared: “The usurpation of public space generated insecurity, disorder, dirt and unfair competition for merchants. Also a lot of discomfort for the neighbors, who They could not move and had to live with busy sidewalks“.
In that procedure there was more than 600 troops, 197 simultaneous raids and seized more than 66 thousand counterfeit items for a sales value of almost $1,000 million.
“Our commitment is to work together with neighbors and merchants, because it is not about coming one day, getting up and then everything being the same again. This has generated a lot of frustration among people in the past.”he added. Along with him, the Minister of Security was present, Waldo Wolffthe Secretary of Security, Diego Kravetz; and the Minister of Public Space, Ignacio Baistrocchi.
Support from merchants and neighbors
Likewise, there was the representative of the independent organization “Good Neighbors”Gloria Llopiz Ortiz, who supported the City’s measure. The organization had been demanding that the manteros be evicted for more than two years. “Since there are no manteros we have doubled sales. We are very happy, what was done was barbaric,” said Hernán, a local merchant.
“We all have the right to work, but not illegally. I pay taxes. People are happy to be able to walk with their carts when they come to shop. Before, you couldn’t even cross the pedestrian path,” said another worker named Jorge, who assured that Their sales increased by 20%.
The work to dismantle the manteros in Once was coordinated with prosecutor Norberto Tropea, the City Police and the Ministry of Public Space. And since then operations have been carried out to guarantee that the streets and sidewalks remain unoccupied.
In search of ordering public space
Finally, Macri explained: “We organize the public space so that everyone can work as well as possible and progress. And to be able to live in a country where he who follows the rules has a reward, and not the rogue, the arrogant, the one who occupies. When characters like Juan Grabois come to bully, to want to take down the Police at the Police Station, It is the neighbors themselves who raise their voices and come out to defend what is theirs, their neighborhood.”.
Under the line of public space planning, the City has been carrying out different operations. In August They evicted more than 2,000 manteros from Centenario Park; while to At the beginning of the year, the illegal fair on Perette Street, in Retiro, was dismantledwhere stolen items and tools have been sold for more than five years.
The evictions of manteros and ranchadas were repeated in Parque Patricios, the Jorge Newbery Aeroparque, the Plaza de Mayo, Plaza Lavalle, the sidewalks of the Congress and in Plaza Constitución.
They also revealed that ”the Ministry of Human Development conducted a survey of the people reached in the Once operation and offered them to manage, in necessary cases, the Ciudadanía Porteña subsidy. “Only one accepted it.”
Source: Ambito
