The founder of the Los Piletones dining room assured that they do not provide assistance from the libertarian administration. “I don’t ask for money. We asked for food and from time to time they arrived,” he said.
The founder of the Los Piletones dining room, Margarita Barrientos, stated that they do not receive any help from Javier Milei’s government. In this sense, the activist declared that they only receive assistance from the head of the Buenos Aires government, Jorge Macri.
“The help we have is from the City. They provide us with dry food. The national government does not. “We do not receive anything from the Government,” Barrientos said in radio statements,” Barrientos continued. The dining room is located in the Villa Soldati neighborhood and, according to the activist, currently receives to more than 4000 people.
Margarita Barrientos denied receiving help from the national government
In a new conflict related to the delivery of food to different organizations and soup kitchens, Barrientos explained that currently they do not receive any assistance from the Ministry of Human Capital, directed by Sandra Pettovello under the orders of President Javier Milei. In this sense, the activist praised the work done by the head of the Buenos Aires government: “The help we have is from the City. They provide us with dry food,” she explained.
In this context, Barrientos explained that before the Executive Branch did send food, aid that today they denounce was cut off. “I’m not asking for money, subsidies or anything. We asked for food and from time to time they arrived“he explained.
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Margarita Barrientos Foundation
When consulted by the current political leadership, Barrientos targeted the officials and assured that “they were completely absent“. In this sense he added: “No politician comes to the dining room.”
“In other years they paraded and promised things that they never fulfilled. In so many years of my work, Today I take stock and they never fulfilled what they promised“reflected the activist.
Regarding the current situation and the poverty index reflected by the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INDEC), the social leader maintained that before they helped “3,700 or 3,800” people, but that now the number of people assisting has increased. “passing 4000.” “The situation is a little better, but prices are not going down,” he explained.
“They may say that the poverty rate is going down, but we see it the same, nothing changes. The precariousness of housing. There are people who don’t have a bathroom. There are many people who do not have water or electricity, and their children were not able to finish primary school,” he concluded.
Source: Ambito
