After head this Wednesday a day of protest which closed with a harsh speech in which criticized Alberto Fernandez and summoned him to implement the universal basic salary, Juan Grabois doubled the bet in a television interview.
“I prefer to say these things now and not be sorry when the looting starts”expressed the leader of the Movement of Excluded Workers (MTE) in dialogue with C5N and did not hesitate to affirm that the social outbreak might occur in “weeks or months”.
“The governments that left unseemly fell due to social unrest,” he maintained, adding that “for there to be political stability, there must be economic stability, and for there to be economic stability, there must be social stability. This said it Evo Morales”.
In this sense, he affirmed that “there is no way that there is [estabilidad social] with these growing levels of poverty and the lack of reaction with social measures from the Government”. Visibly angry, he added: “To me, this argument style [Margaret] Thatcher who said ‘there is no other way’, how come there is no other way? How many millions of dollars are in the silobags? Can’t think of anything for that fortune that is in the land of our country to become reserves of the Central Bank?”.
Then he criticized Fernández once more. “The President has to feel the pressure of the poor, not the rich. This is shit. He does what they want.” From his point of view, the Government “until now is not willing to do what has to be done because he is afraid of certain sectors, which are not the popular ones. It is not fear or necessity, it is fear and obedience.
“In this country everything is expensive except to annoy the people -continuous-. They were at a birthday party, but it ended. Let them start ordering things by adjusting above, not below. Now there is a permanent adjustment on the popular sectors, on the minimum pensioners, the poor and informal workers”.
“If there is no pressure from the popular and union sectors, the government is going to make bad decisions, as it has done until today. Every day a bad decision because it was necessary to conform to others who were not the people who voted for him. No government in Argentine history left to increase the minimum wage, pensions or put an income booster for the popular sectors, quite the opposite, “he said.
On the economic crisis, he said: “There are two ways to solve the deficit: one is not to invest and the other is to collect more. There are 14,000 million dollars lying around in the field and what comes to mind is to make a special dollar for them? They don’t get an idea.”
with focus on force the field to liquidate the grainssaid: “Don’t you know how to pressure the mega multimillionaires of Argentina? To the cereal companies and the landowners who have the silobags? When the President calls for a fight for the redistribution of wealth with a clear orientation, we will all support him. The problem is that he is not calling for that, he is not fighting to raise more.”
“The problem is that there is no country project here, that is clear here. But we didn’t ask that, Alberto, but that there be fewer poor people and more and better jobs. Not just more shitty informal work. The wonderful figures they show are among the most precarious jobs that have existed in Argentina in recent years”, he questioned.
Regarding macroeconomics, he acknowledged that “it is very complex”: “We have always had problems. Are we going to fix it now? Not now we must try to bank the patch, but not at the cost of people’s hunger. The extraordinary measures that are taken are by action or omission. Starving people is a default measure. It is the same to put on the cap with the people and not with the people who have 14,000 million dollars in grains”.
respect to the looting, said that “it is an obvious scenario” if poverty levels continue to rise. “The purchasing deterioration of the middle and lower classes is leading to absolute pauperization,” he said.
Grabois also had darts for the unions: “I don’t understand how they explain to people that they made five stoppages to Cristina [Kirchner]four to [Mauricio] Macri and now it’s all jewel, nothing happens. The workers do not have any problem, the employees are very well”.
When consulted by the vice president, he said that their relationship “is very good”, but now it is “in another mode”. “I am interested in concentrating on the specific topic. There is an issue that the great political leaders of the country have to resolve that is not being resolved.”
In that sense, he added: “[Cristina] has no eye for choosing candidates, that is your responsibility. Then he has the merit of having built the strategy to get Macri out. You have to weigh that, what do I know. Now I am seeing a desperate situation, so what happened three years ago matters to me philosophically or intellectually, but in everyday life what people are demanding are concrete measures, not historical explanations regarding why things happened the way they did.”
“If you look at the human development indices, Bolivia is becoming argentinizing and Argentina is bolivianizing. Whose responsibility is it?” she wondered, before questioning the management of Martin Guzman at the head of the Ministry of Economy: “He has no street, political training, or sensitivity to the people. The guy goes, does his thing, leaves everyone ass up and it’s free.
About Silvina Batakis He said that “she assumes an institutional responsibility.” “I’m not going to do batakisology. I would have liked him to approach the situation differently. That says ‘I’m not going to make any fiscal expansion, I’m going to redirect collection and spending’.
“If the crisis is paid by the poor, the government ceases to be popular, becomes something else. It’s not what we vote for. The militants did not put a type so that poverty increases -he sentenced-. For there to be fiscal balance, you have to put your hand in the pocket of the 1% and take out the one they take at everyone’s expense. That is what you have to do. The nature of a popular government is to confront the concentrated groups of economic power to redistribute the wealth that, due to the dynamics of capitalism, is concentrated there arrives. If he doesn’t do that, that’s something else.”
And he added: “They are leading people to a very ugly situation, which can be resolved with an implosion of the social fabric which is what happened over the last few years, degradation, degradation, degradation, or with a bang. And I don’t know which is worse. It can also be resolved with a government that begins to take measures to solve the problems of the people. To the private sector, pay a little more, because it didn’t go so badly for them.”
“We are willing to lay down our bodies for our people. I see that time is running out and that the Government is not reacting. So, what we are trying to do is help him understand that, in order to comply with the Constitution and with the mandate for which he was elected, he has to take measures that solve the problems of the poorest retirees, of public sector workers and private poorest and from the sectors of the popular and informal economy. how far will you go [la crisis]? Until they react, ”she closed.
Grabois led a day of protest on Wednesday with more than 50 concentrations and roadblocks throughout the country to demand the launch of a universal basic salary that reaches some seven million poor and destitute. In this context, he sent a strong message to the President: “Don’t tell us that we have to calm the markets: come and calm us down, because there are some gauchos here who we are ready to leave our blood in the street so that this hunger does not continue in Argentina”.
“It’s very easy, Alberto, the claim is very simple,” he continued. Alberto, that at least we are not below the indigence line. Look what we got to, to ask you not to have extreme poverty in one of the richest countries in the world! If there is no way for us to get out of poverty, at least there are no indigents!”, he exclaimed.
Dislocated, the leader closed his criticism of Fernández: “Why did we put you there? So that there is less poverty, not so that there is more! It’s math, bro! And if you don’t like the universal salary, invent something else, come up with a better proposal!”.
