3,000 people from more than 20 social organizations had tried to cut the bridge that connects the City of Buenos Aires with Avellaneda. Prefecture officers transferred them 300 meters from there, allowing traffic across the bridge.
The mobilization was scheduled for this Friday 6th starting at 12:30, with the aim of demanding from the Ministry of Human Capital, in charge of the minister Sandra PettovelloThe organizations justify the measure because, after nine months of libertarian management, “the 52% of the population is below the poverty line, and more than 8 million people are destitute”.
The demonstration in Avellaneda
Social organizations called for the demonstration after the UNICEF survey revealed that one million children go to bed without dinner. “UNICEF warned that There are more than a million kids who don’t eat dinner at homewhich means that their parents don’t either, this makes Three million people do not eat one of the essential meals”,
Eduardo Bellibonileader of the Worker’s Polesaid earlier in statements to radio stations that “it will be a huge mobilization of all the picketing sectors.” “We are More than 20 organizations are going to gather at the Pueyrredón Bridge”.
The organizing organizations pointed out that “in 9 months, Milei’s government has devastated the rights of children, grandparents, workers and youth (…) The layoffs are massive and more than 38 thousand companies They announce that they are in crisis and that they could lay off Hundreds of thousands of workers by the end of the year”.
At the moment, members of the Argentine Federal Police and Prefecture prevent passage to the Pueyrredón Bridge, the final objective of the protesters. More than 2 rows of officers cut off passage on Avenida Mitre in the direction CABA.
The Government’s defense of the anti-picket protocol
Following the police repression of a group of retirees who were protesting against the veto of the pension reform that took place on Wednesday, the Chief of Staff, Guillermo Francos, defended the actions of the security forces: “It was not a brutal repression, it was to maintain order“.
In radio statements, the official of La Libertad Avanza (LLA) made fun of the disturbances that broke out in the vicinity of Congress. Along these lines, Francos pointed out that he saw “many young retirees with their faces covered, all those things that are seen in demonstrations by left-wing extremist groups“.
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Photo: Mariano Fuchila
Francos also assured that “there was a small group of used retirees as a flag for left-wing political forces which usually generate this type of public expressions. The protesters violated the protocol for the use of public space and generated the appropriate reaction from the security forces.“, justified the Chief of Staff.
Source: Ambito
