Social organizations lifted the march, but will return to the streets

The official and opposition social organizations demonstrated today in the City of Buenos Aires, with traffic cuts in the accesses to the Pueyrredón Bridge and in the vicinity of the Buenos Aires Obelisk, with demands such as the universalization of social programs, the recognition of the work of the popular economy in front of the Ministry of Social Development. The main slogan of the claim was to reject the systematic “attack” on the beneficiaries of the Empower Work program.The demonstrations on the Pueyrredón Bridge and the Obelisk were raised around 2 p.m., while the one that took place in the intermediaries of the Social Development building, at the intersection of Belgrano and 9 de Julio avenues, remained active until 5 p.m.The leftist social organizations, nucleated in the Piquetera Unit (UP), which held a protest with a traffic blockade in the vicinity of the Buenos Aires Obelisk, lifted the measure of force and announced that they will return next week to the streets, in demand of the payment of salaries to the beneficiaries of the Empower Work Program. ” If there are no solutions soon, without any doubt we will take to the streets next week,” said UP leader Eduardo Belliboni.And added: “We are going to coordinate with other organizations that mobilized today, because we are against the official offensive against the poor who charge the Empower Work. We want to wait until Monday and if there are no answers from the government, we will take to the streets between Tuesday and Wednesday.” Meanwhile, the pro-government social organizations nucleated in the Union of Workers of the Popular Economy (UTEP), which held a protest and traffic blockade at the foot of the Pueyrredón Bridge in the Buenos Aires town of Avellaneda, lifted the demonstration after 12.30 the measure of force and announced an “increase in the plan of struggle.” This assembly is adjourned now but we are going to increase the plan of struggle next Wednesday, with mobilizations and roadblocks,” UTEP spokesmen said. During the cut, the demonstrators were confronted with members of the Argentine Federal Police (PFA) and Prefecture, while trying to climb the access that connects Avellaneda with the city of Buenos Aires.Finally, another group of social organizations mobilized to the Ministry of Social Development, in front of which it installed until 5 p.m. a “Popular Economy Fair”, with more than 50 stalls, in which they expose their agroecological food production, recycling, design and clothing, carpentry, bakery, construction, public works, care tasks, community rescue, health, education, urbanization projects, among others.

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