Margarita Barrientos confirmed that the government does not deliver food

Margarita Barrientos accused the government of not sending food to the soup kitchens and asked them to “help the people.” We have not received food from the government, there are many soup kitchens that have closed,” said the founder of the Los Piletones soup kitchen in dialogue with Radio Colonia.In that sense, Barrientos said that “many people who come to ask for food have joined” but there are not enough resources to be able to help everyone. He also said that he met with the Secretary of Social Development, Pablo de La Torre, but did not receive any response. The neighborhood soup kitchens have not received food from the Nation since the arrival of the new governmentThe empty pot was a recurring image in the protest centers that unfolded since the beginning of the year against the ruling party. Apart from the rejection that the mega-decree and the omnibus law generate in the social movements, the lack of food assistance from the Government in the canteens has been consolidated as one of the central axes in their agenda of demands: so far in Javier Milei’s mandate they have not received food to distribute among the soup kitchens they manage and the last distribution that “came down” from the Nation was in November. during the previous administration. According to the social organizations, the message that the ruling party distributed in those meetings is that they were still evaluating options to be able to supply the demand for food. “They’re looking for a way. They still can’t say it’s going to be this one or it’s going to be that one,” they explain in one of the social movements. All the spaces that have pots have doubled, in many cases tripled. It is exasperating to see how the demand increases day by day and we receive less and less or nothing,” said Natalia Zarza, of the Movement of Excluded Workers (MTE). Some organizations have received food from the province of Buenos Aires, through the municipalities, and others have closed agreements in November that allowed them to obtain resources for the canteens. But others, with less luck and less political terminals, have not received any help in recent times.

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