The toughest piqueteros, grouped under the umbrella of the Piquetera Unit, planned a series of roadblocks and streets throughout the country for next Tuesday. Without patience, and once morest the suspensions of the Empowering Work program implemented by the Ministry of Social Development, they believe that the only way out is to redouble protest measures to be heard.
Tuesday’s event will consist of a series of actions in 130 points in the country, characterized by cuts in accesses, bridges and national and provincial routes, with a massive presence of adherents of the four main organizations that coexist in the UP, Libres del Sur, the Polo Obrero, the MST Teresa Vive and the Coordinator for Social Change. And it will take place the day following the effective interruptions of social assistance, which will affect almost 160,000 people, according to the organizations.
For Silvia Saravia, national territorial coordinator of Libres el Sur, the Government generated a cut in an “indiscriminate” manner and without concrete data despite the validation of information implemented by the portfolio of Victoria Tolosa Paz. The representative, in her dialogue with PROFILE, says that it is unknown if “the people who did not update the data have difficulties doing so.”
“It is a high-impact decision, that is why we are going to file a claim once morest the Ministry of Social Development of the Nation. We have requested a meeting with the minister, but we have not yet received any confirmation, which is why we have planned from the Piquetera Unit to carry out an action”, the leader remarks regarding the next steps of the coalition of social groups.
Among his criticisms of the official, he comments that “first he sanctions and then reviews the consequences of his actions. He does not take into account that when the life situation is so uncertain, where most of the time that income depends on having or not having a plate of food. She came to bring those ways of executing public policy: first suspend and then review.
UP sources also denounce that they registered dismissals of beneficiaries of the plan despite having participated in the official audit and that there are breaches by the Government in the delivery of tools and supplies for the productive enterprises led by the organizations. On the side of the ruling party, the version they give is another: they indicate that last January 15, when the data validation procedure for plan holders ended, resulted in the positive validation of 88.7% of the last liquidated register.
Faced with this situation, the Ministry of Social Development opened a period for receiving requests for people who, being holders of the program, had not been able to carry out the validation on the scheduled date. A “simple” procedure, as they emphasize, which is carried out through the Mi Argentina platform, with the social portfolio providing assistance throughout the national territory.
“People who make the claim and are verified as holders of the program will once once more receive the entire corresponding amount in the month of March. Those who in the sixty days following the end of the validation do not present a claim will be terminated from the program”, they specified from the portfolio, which launches a question around the discussion: “How can it be that the management units (managed by the organizations) have not been able to find the people whose work was certified each month so that they collect the amount corresponding to the program?
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