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This Thursday, several social organizations cut part of the traffic on National Road 3 in Argentinain the municipality of La Matanza, in Buenos Aires, during a protest against the economic measures announced in recent days by the ultraliberal government Javier Mileiwithout incidents or altercations occurring.
The road closure, of a federal nature, began at 10am local time (1pm GMT) with the participation of hundreds of protesters belonging to the Federation of Land, Housing and Habitat (FTV), the Classist and Combative Current (CCC), the Barrios de Pie Movement, the Neighborhood Front of the Central Workers of Argentina (CTA)he Canilitas Union and other provincial and local groups.
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“(The mobilization) is a clear fight against the reinstallation of the conservative neoliberal model in its most cruel version,” the social leader told EFE. Luis D’Eliafrom FTV.
D’Elía highlighted that “behind Milei are the BlackRock group (an American multinational investment company), the Koch brothers (David and Charles Koch, two American billionaires known for their ultra-conservative ideas) and the red circle (…) that wants to put Argentina back into debt.”
“They come in search of lithium, gas, gold, oil and water”, assured the social leader, who warned the Government that “their fight in the streets will be until the DNU falls”, in reference to the decree of necessity and urgency (DNU) signed last week by Milei and which will come into force this Friday and with It will deregulate a large part of the Argentine economy.
“We are standing because we will not give up in the face of the destruction of our homeland.”both economically and with the delivery of our natural resources,” Beto Galeano, leader of the CTA in La Matanza, told EFE.
With almost two million inhabitants, The municipality of La Matanza is the most populous and poorest in the province of Buenos Aires and has traditionally been one of the most combative.
The presence of social organizations and the piquetero movement in this bastion of Kirchnerism It is very wide and places like the Route 3 They became iconic scenes of protests in the suburbs of Buenos Aires.
“We can no longer cover four meals a day and we no longer need to endure this.”. We rebel against this situation and I think the Argentine people are outraged and will come out to repudiate all of this (…) It’s not fair!”, Miguelina Gómez, representative of the CCC, told EFE.
Although the protesters only allowed urban buses to pass on roads authorized for this type of vehicle, The police and security forces did not intervene on Route 3 to enforce the controversial security protocol promoted by the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, which prohibits the blocking of streets and highways during marches and proposes severe sanctions for those who do not comply.
The mobilizations against the economic measures announced by the ultraliberal economist Javier Milei have been multiplying in recent days in Buenos Aires and other cities in Argentina.
This Thursday, the country’s main union center, the General Confederation of Labor (CGT) -Peronist-inspired- will decide whether to call a general strike in the country.
Meanwhile, the various political actors who oppose Milei’s DNU and the macro public emergency law project – which must be approved in the National Congress – continue to criticize the measures, and complaints and calls for protection against both regulations continue to arrive . Argentine courts.
Source: Elcomercio
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