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Incidents and confrontations with the Police at the pickets of the Pueyrredón and Saavedra bridges - Infobae
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Incidentes y enfrentamientos con la Policía en los piquetes de los puentes Pueyrredón y Saavedra
Son dos de las múltiples protestas que se realizan este lunes en reclamo de alimentos para los comedores comunitarios y aumentos en los planes sociales
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March 18, 2024
These scenarios were two of the multiple protests that took place this Monday demanding food for community kitchens and increases in social plans.
Video: incidents in Puente Saavedra
The so-called “national picket” carried out this Monday by the social movements that make up the Popular Economy Workers Union (UTEP) and leftist organizations ended with three injuries and incidents on the Saavedra and Pueyrredón bridges.
The protest, demanding continuity of food for community soup kitchens and picnic areas, lasted approximately four hours: it started at 10 a.m. and ended at 2 p.m.
At mid-morning, almost simultaneously , sources of tension arose in the pickets taking place on the Saavedra and Pueyrredón bridges .
At 11:05, the Buenos Aires City Police decided to advance on the protesters with infantry personnel and water hydrant trucks with the aim of clearing one of the cuts. The protesters were protesting on the border that divides the Federal Capital from the province of Buenos Aires (Cabildo and Maipú avenues) and reported that they were repressed at a time when they were expressing themselves peacefully.
The total blockage of Maipú Avenue began a little before 10 in the morning but at no time did the protesters try to reach the City of Buenos Aires. However, the troops advanced with a hydrant truck to the jurisdictional limit to neutralize that possibility and doused the crowd with water.
Images of the incidents in Puente Saavedra (Photos: Adrián Escándar)
Images of the incidents in Puente Saavedra
Images of the incidents in Puente Saavedra
A protester injured in the Puente Saavedra protest
Images of the incidents in Puente Saavedra
Saavedra Bridge, the border between CABA (Avenida Cabildo and General Paz) and the province of Buenos Aires (Maipú) where the first focus of conflict originated
Five minutes later, the clashes began in Puente Pueyrredón , where there is a large column of Federal Police troops seeking to prevent the picketers from advancing towards CABA. The officers and protesters faced each other for several minutes. The force tried to dissuade the activists with gas. Then a fire truck arrived, which has not moved forward until now.
In the midst of this tumult, a Channel 9 journalist who was covering the events was injured. while two Prefectural officers who were working on the front line had to be transferred by ambulance after suffering decompensation.
Behind the shield of Naval Prefecture troops the K-9 dog team of that same force was positioned.
Although traffic in the City of Buenos Aires did not present significant delays, complications occurred when motorists tried to enter the Province of Buenos Aires or cross into the Federal Capital due to these two pickets.
Video: incidents in Puente Pueyrredón
Incidents in Puente Pueyrredón (Photos: Franco Fafasuli)
Incidents in Puente Pueyrredón
According to official estimates, the largest protest was at the Pueyrredón Bridge where there were about 4,000 protesters. In Puente Saavedra, meanwhile, nearly 1,500 gathered, as in Liniers, at the intersection of Rivadavia and General Paz.
At the head of the Puente Pueyrredón column was Eduardo Belliboni, head of the Polo Obrero, who called for a national strike. “We demand a national strike and a fight plan for the entire country. The owner of the streets is not Patricia Bullrich, but hunger throughout the country,” said the Polo leader.
Other leaders who called for this day of mobilizations throughout the country against the government of Javier Milei are Emilio Pérsico, from the Evita Movement; Juan Grabois, from the Excluded Workers Movement; and Juan Carlos Alderete, from the Classist and Combative Current.
Incidents in Puente Pueyrredón
Incidents in Puente Pueyrredón
Incidents in Puente Pueyrredón
After noon, the protesters who were stationed on Route 3, near the town of Ciudadela, began to burn roofs and the flames were immediately evacuated by the police, who were able to prevent them from crossing under the avenue bridge. General Paz and enter the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Liniers.
The picketers are stationed on Route 3, near Lomas del Mirador, which borders the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Liniers.
The social movements that make up the Popular Economy Workers Union (UTEP) and left-wing organizations carry out a “ national picket ” this Monday. The day of protest includes blockades in the main accesses to the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. This is the continuity of a series of protests demanding food for community soup kitchens and picnic areas.
The Ministry of National Security, headed by Patricia Bullrich , had announced that it would apply the Anti-Picket Protocol and would evict protesters if they actually cut streets, avenues or bridges.
“We will carry out a national day, together with other social and union organizations, with its head at the Pueyrredón bridge and more than 500 cuts and mobilizations throughout the country, deepening our plan of struggle in the face of the absolute lack of response from the government, in the face of the emergency. food and adjustment to the popular economy,” the social leaders announced before the start of the protest.
The accesses to the City of Buenos Aires that suffer cuts are the Pueyrredón Bridge , which connects the southern area of the Conurbano, in Avellaneda; Route 3 and General Paz , on the border with La Matanza, there the bulk of the picketers are grouped in the Classist and Combative Current; General Paz and Rivadavia , near the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Liniers; and the so-called Saavedra Highway Bridge , which allows General Paz Avenue to cross above level Cabildo Avenue on the south side and Maipú on the north side. The Movement of Socialist Workers (MST) will also hold a rally at the former Avellaneda station, called Kosteki and Santillán.
Among the movements they call for, the Polo Obrero and the Unidad Piquetera stand out; the Darío Santillán Popular Front; the Evita Movement; Free of the South; the Classist and Combative Current; the Movement of Excluded Workers (MTE)
“People can't take it anymore. They are the neighbors who ask us to go out and picket, to make cuts to demonstrate the unrest that exists. If we have to face Minister Bullrich's militarized force, we are going to do it, we don't care at all," Juan Carlos Alderete, leader of the CCC, told Infobae in advance of the day.
Federal troops were instructed to thwart any attempt to block streets
"For months we have been experiencing food shortages, by order of the Minister of Human Capital, Sandra Pettovello , in the thousands of community kitchens in popular neighborhoods throughout the country, where socio-community workers juggle because they are no longer able to support the pots that feed millions of families who are having a very bad time,” added Eduardo Belliboni , leader of the Polo Obrero.
But that is not the only claim. From the Movement of Excluded Workers (MTE), identified with Juan Grabois , they pointed out: “They attack and stigmatize the workers of the popular economy with the adjustment in the Empower Work (now divided into two programs), the salary that complements the job invented by millions of people discarded from the formal system . They return to the story of plans in work, an old recipe that ignores these tasks with the intention of continuing to adjust those below.”
Grabois also adds that "as if that were not enough, they put an end to the socio-urban integration works that are so needed by families who live overcrowded and without basic services in our neighborhoods."
Among the movements they call for, the Polo Obrero and the Unidad Piquetera stand out, Eduardo Belliboni is one of their references; the Darío Santillán Popular Front, led by Dina Sánchez ; the Evita Movement, which among its main leaders has Emilio Pérsico , Gildo Onorato and Alejandro Gramajo , also general secretary of the UTEP, Libres del Sur, headed by Silvia Saravia ; the Classist and Combative Current, led by Juan Carlos Alderete and the Movement of Excluded Workers (MTE), referenced in Juan Grabois and Nicolás Caropresi .
Protesters with signs against the Minister of Human Capital, Sandra Pettovello
“Since La Libertad Avanza came to power, they have not sent a kilo of noodles to the canteens for the kids, for the families who are increasingly coming to the canteens in greater numbers because they are hungry,” repeats Belliboni.
Minister Pettovello, as this media reported, announced that she has already called for bids for the purchase of food “in a transparent manner”, that she broke with the “cartelization” that existed and that assistance is coming through a 100% increase in the value of the Alimentar Card, and the Alimentar Comunidad program, a prepaid card that is granted to those responsible for “registered” dining rooms and picnic areas.
The official explained that “in this way, outsourcing was removed from the social leaders who distributed in a discretionary manner and without surrender as a way of extorting people.”
In parallel, the money items were stopped being sent to 281 Management Units, which were the places to which the beneficiaries of Potencia Trabajo had to carry out the 20 hours of work per week. The majority were cooperatives, civil and municipal organizations.
According to Human Capital officials, in this way the picketers were stripped of the power to “call the roll” of those who attended in order to receive assistance from the State. Now it will be the government itself who controls.
Photos: Adrián Escándar and Franco Fasuli
