“I’m not going to receive the referents”: Sandra Pettovello crossed paths with leaders in the middle of a protest

The Minister of Human Capital, Sandra Pettovello, crossed paths on Thursday with demonstrators who were gathered in front of the headquarters of the ministry she heads. “I’m going to take care of the people who are hungry one by one, not the referents. I’m going to write down the ID, the name and where they’re from and they’re going to receive the aid individually,” the minister told the leaders of the Union of Workers of the Popular Economy (UTEP) stationed at the door of the building. “None of them wanted to enter individually,” the Ministry of Human Capital reported. We are going to solve people’s problems, but we are not going to allow ourselves to be extorted by the managers of poverty who manipulate the will of those who need it most,” said the minister in statements released by the ministry she leads. We are going to solve people’s problems, but we are not going to allow ourselves to be extorted by the managers of poverty who manipulate the will of those who need it most,” said the minister. pic.twitter.com/ANgNEYzLLv— Ministry of Human Capital (@MindeCapitalH) February 1, 2024 The claim comes in the midst of growing tension over cuts in the Ministry, the reduction of thousands of social plans and controls on the assistance provided by the national State in order to eliminate the intermediation between assistance and the beneficiary, and within the framework of a new day of protest with marches by social groups to different supermarkets around the world the country.” Since the arrival of this new government, and without any explanation from Minister Pettovello, food assistance (in all its forms) from the State has been cut off,” denounced the UTEP in the call for this Thursday’s mobilization. The Minister of Human Capital on the esplanade of the ministry’s headquarters. Source: Ministry of Human Capital (@MindeCapitalH). On Thursday, Daniel Menéndez, a former Social Development official and national coordinator of SOMOS/Barrios de Pie, which is driving the protest, told Futuröck: “This policy is unviable. Either they reflect and review the level of adjustment or they are going to have to militarize the country.”

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