Luis Barrionuevo was urgently admitted to the Güemes Sanatorium

He trade unionist, businessman and Argentine politician He was transferred this afternoon to the clinic, where he arrived with a picture of loss of time and space. The doctors Studies were started to rule out a possible Cerebral Vascular Accident (CVA).

Barrionuevo, 82 years old, he has been at the head of the gastronomic guild and he is one of the strong men of Argentine unionism, despite not personally being a member of the leadership of the General Confederation of Labor (CGT).

In its recent past, the leader oscillated politically from open support for the former Minister of the Interior, Eduardo “Wado” de Pedroeven the public accompaniment to the president Javier Milei during last year’s campaign.

However, in April, Newtown abandoned his support for the libertarian government after calling its economic measures a “pandemic without viruses.” Furthermore, he stated that Milei “is doing things wrong” because “People can’t keep waiting”.

“There has to be a policy that has to do with the production, he job and the employment. We are facing a severe circumstance where the Government has to understand that what the Government wants to do President You cannot do it at the cost of workers and companies. They do not have a serious economic plan; On the contrary, we are going down a path that has no exit,” he stated.

Further back in time, the owner of UTHGRA He maintained a strong bond with the former president Carlos Menem, during the 1990s, whom he supported during the campaign. After the victory of Rioja, was appointed head of the National Health Insurance Administration (Anssal).

At the time, Newtown declared “re contra pimp” by Menem and was the protagonist of a historic phrase when he said that you have to “stop stealing for at least two years”after admitting that “no one makes money working.”