Harsh Criticism of Piquetero Leadership for Extorting Social Plan Beneficiaries: Espert Speaks Out

2024-05-14 03:39:00

After knowing the complaints of extortion once morest beneficiaries of social plans by representatives of organizations that in recent years administered the assistance provided by the State, the national deputy of La Libertad Avanza, José Luis Espertspoke in harsh terms of the piquetero leadership.

Espert is one of the first representatives of the ruling party to speak publicly in the midst of the judicial investigation into the management of social assistance. This Monday, telephone calls were made known in which people in vulnerable situations provided information regarding the leaders who provided them with information to Ministry of Security officials. They demanded attendance at marches and party activities such as condition to continue receiving the benefit.

Asked regarding this, the legislator pointed towards the opposition: “Kirchnerism and its tailgate – the left – They are the scourge, they are the manure of the Argentine leadership. And the heavy version of the manure of that leadership is the piqueteros movements. “They are the worst trash on earth, worse than unionists, because they profit from people who are outside the system.”.

In statements to All News (TN)he once more confronted the Polo Obrero reference, Eduardo Belliboni: “He is a criminal, he has prevented companies from distributing their merchandise, he blocked streets at random.” “Belliboni “To jail, let’s get those scourges off our backs.”he added.

“Social plans have to go directly to the beneficiary for a certain period of time, it is not forever, for some compensation such as finishing primary or secondary school, or for him to work if he does not work, but the social plan for there to be decent work has to be very transitory, conditional and directly to the person who is without any short-term viability,” he considered.

For Espert, “the fault” that there are people in vulnerable situations “is the damned Kirchnerism and these damned unionists who now have a second eschatological version, which are the piqueteros movements.”

The federal judge Sebastian Casanello and prosecutor Gerardo Pollicitais leading the investigation that was made public this Monday when a series of raids on different groups picket fences The complaint analyzes whether vulnerable people were extorted with the delivery of merchandise delivered by the State in exchange for attending marches, under threat of losing the social plan.

New audios of complaints of extortion once morest beneficiaries of social plans

In the case, orders were executed 27 raids. This is the result of judicial investigations that began following a presentation to the Ministry of Security, led by Patricia Bullrich. Among the accused are, among others, Jeremías Canteros, Elizabeth Palma and three other leaders with the surnames Puppo, Delgado and Vásquez, who make up the Polo Obrero and other picket groups that managed soup kitchens. The actions of the Barrios de Pie Movements and the Front of Organizations in Struggle (FOL) are also under scrutiny.

The list of those investigated also includes Giana Lucía Puppo, Cinthia Delgado, Gustavo Vásquez, Dina Iramain, Brisa Paucara, Ronald Vargas, Iván Candotti, Lorenzo Martelli, Mercedes Fossat, Manuel Alonzo, María Cecilia Cowper, Carlos Ignacio Fernández Kostiuk, Nilsa Elena Torres , Leslie Castillo, Blanca Beatriz Chuquimia Tarquino, Gloria Santa Jaramillo Morales, María Isolda Dotti, Gloria Estrada, Emmanuel Barriento, Tania Cassamello, as indicated.

Chamber I of the Federal Criminal and Correctional Chamber confirmed a search request and the intervention of telephone lines of several defendants for the crime of extortion. According to the actions to which he had access Infobaethe accused “would have coercively demanded that the beneficiaries of social plans participation in marches and public demonstrations and/or the delivery of a portion of the moneyunder the warning expresses in some cases of ‘cancel the plan‘, making up a total of 924 cases.”

The chats of the case that investigates picketers for extortion of beneficiaries of social plans

Infobae He accessed phrases that are part of the evidence analyzed by justice. “Patry, I wanted to know if I get the merchandise. I’m grounded”. The message was intended for Patry, or rather Patricia Iramain, delegate, who had noticed the list of names in a group message saying: “Good evening colleagues. These are the ones who are not going to withdraw the Nation’s merchandise because they have zero mobilizations”.

According to the prosecutor’s office, these are people in a situation of high social vulnerability, and said demand was made under various concepts such as “capitas”, “quotas”, “dining room rental”. Or to charge them for the delivery of food, despite the fact that they received them free of charge from the National Government, or forcing them to sell the food received from the National State in the area, with the accused keeping the profit, and/or force them to participate in “mobilizations” of the political groups to which they belong, and even in some cases distribute flyers of candidates for electoral elections.”

All of this, the opinion says, occurred “under the express threat that, if they do not comply with these demands, they would be discharged from social benefits and/or they would be denied food and merchandise.”.”

At the same time, it was also verified that, to sustain the duration over time and guarantee the functioning of this activity, an system of control and sanctions on victims, which includedtaking attendance at the “mobilizations” —at the beginning and at the end—, the preparation of “punishment lists” —who had to “repair” their sanction by completing new tasks—, the imposition of fines for missing a “march”—up to $10,000 for each absence—the requirement of “justify” absences to “mobilizations” with “proof” of the respective impediments—medical appointments, procedures, etc.—, and the ban on removing food rations or non-perishable food—for specific periods, depending on each “non-compliance”—among other mechanisms.

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