This Thursday (14th), Argentina lives another day of protest against the government of Alberto Fernández.
Thousands of unemployed and informal workers gathered at the Obelisco, in Buenos Aires, to demonstrate against the worsening social crisis and demand an increase in government aid to face the constant price increases.
In the late afternoon of this Thursday (14), the country’s Statistics and Census Institute will release inflation for the month of June. In May, the index was 5.1%, adding up to 29.3% since January and 60.7% in one year.
The protesters left the Obelisk and started a march to Plaza de Mayo, in a measure of pressure on the Ministry of Economy, located meters from Casa Rosada, seat of the Argentine government.
They also call for an end to economic adjustments.
“The government has to decide whether it wants to serve the interests of the ruling classes or the 20 million poor people in Argentina who have fallen out of the system and continue to fall every day,” he told CNN, Alejandro Ignaszewsky, of the Free People’s Organizations (PLO).
This week, Argentina’s new Economy Minister Silvina Batakis, who took over after the unexpected resignation of then-Minister Martín Guzmán, said she will meet the fiscal targets agreed with the International Monetary Fund, to whom Argentina owes about US$1. $44 billion.
“She spoke to the markets, to the price makers, without giving any signal to the popular sectors”, complained the social leader.
The climate of dissatisfaction is increasingly evident in the streets of Argentina.
Yesterday, the Mesa de Enlace, which brings together important agrarian organizations in the country, held a 24-hour marketing cease and a demonstration in the province of Entre Ríos.
Agribusiness is responsible for a large part of the inflow of foreign exchange into the country, he claims to be seen by the current government only as a source of revenue, and that there are no measures that predict the growth of the sector.
Last Saturday, the day the country celebrated its independence, the streets of Buenos Aires were also taken over by protests.
Separately, groups more to the left of the government and sectors of the opposition to the right went to Plaza de Mayo against policies of the Fernández government.
The main demand of the protesters on the right was the departure of vice president Cristina Kirchner, while the leftists asked that the Casa Rosada break the agreement signed with the IMF.
Source: CNN Brasil
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