Two workers’ centres, left parties and social movements returned this Wednesday to occupy the center of the city. Buenos Aires for the same reasons as in recent months and years: money is not enough and the only thing that moves poverty, this is already hitting 40% of Argentines. This time, the crowd especially avoided directing their anger at the weak president, Alberto Fernandez. Because a good portion of the union leadership is Peronist, he denounced rather than targeted a government he saw himself “economic irresponsibility of major price makers who set the value of core products to improve their profit margins. Argentina can close 2022 with one inflation greater than 100%. “Alberto, we have to do something, we can’t take it anymore,” said Pablo Moyano, the leader of the truckers. The new economy minister, Sergio Massa, is trying to steer the situation into clear distress, as the Central Bank’s dollar reserves are close to the red and the harmonization measures he has prepared to maintain the deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). new source of social irritation.
In this context, those responsible for mobilizationfinancial speculation it wants a devaluation that favors only concentrated economic groups” and “shatters the purchasing power of workers”.a new social contract Without these goals “an inclusive model will be impossible.” Fernandez tries to persuade unions and businessmen to negotiate a wage agreement that would allow some of the eroded purchasing power to be rebuilt. .
The President is living his life the hardest hours Since the Peronist coalition Frente de Todos took office in December 2019, promising to heal the wounds left by the right-wing administration. The epidemic has worsened living conditions. Although the economy is expected to grow by four points this year, the continuous increase in the dollar and its inflationary effects increase inequality even more. Many Argentines have found jobs, but they are just as poor. The Catholic University Social Observatory calculates that 2,800 people are part of this most vulnerable group every day.
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Since 2017, the salary of Argentines has worsened by 23%. For informal workers, the decrease is 35%. Pensioners have lost 36% of their purchasing power since 2015. Social programs are enough to buy 40% more than five years ago.
According to the National Ministry of Labor and the International Labor Organization (ILO), Argentina is a country with 14 times more conflict than the world average. carried out between 2010 and 2020 200 strikes or protests per 100,000 people. In the last ten years, 3,600 activities were terminated in public administration, while 1,900 and 1,300 activities were terminated in the fields of health and education, respectively.
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Unlike what happened in Colombia, Ecuador and ChileIn the place of social explosions as of 2019, workers’ centers and social movements have so far served as a source of containment of the anger of those most in need. However, the leader of the popular economy workers Juan Grabois assured that these levees are becoming more and more fragile and that the country is not far from a scenario similar to what other countries in the region are experiencing. “Look, Alberto, we’ve come to ask you not to have extreme poverty in one of the richest countries in the world,” he said during the mobilization.
Source: Informacion
