Groups of protesters challenged the anti-picket protocol at various entrances to the city of Buenos Aires. At mid-morning, the tension it was felt more rigorously on one of the climbs to the Pueyrredón bridgeat the height of Miter Avenue, where tires were burning on the sidewalk, and at the height of the Saavedra bridgewhere the City Police did not allow the protesters to advance.
The members of the social organizations and members of different security forces stood face to face when preventing the formation of protesters from ascending the Pueyrredón bridge or entering the Buenos Aires jurisdiction. There is traffic chaos around each of the protests.
“It is a fair claim because they are eliminating an essential program such as Return to Work; they left 300 thousand people without a job. It is a peaceful demonstration”complained the leader of the Polo Obrero (PO), Eduardo Bellibonifrom Avellaneda. “Our intention is not to pass. The Government acts as if it had been under siege; it cannot demonstrate in the capital, where it belongs”added the social leader to the media present.
The protest was repeated in various parts of the country in the context of a national day of demonstration with roadblocks and mobilizations at different points. The measure, which began at 10, has as its axis the rejection of the adjustment policies of the Government of Javier Milei and the decision to advance against social programs.
The call includes “100 cuts and protests throughout the country” and aims against what they defined as “Milei’s chainsaw against the poorest,” was indicated in a statement released by the social organizations.
The Minister of National Security, Alejandra Monteoliva, blamed the Buenos Aires government for the protests. “As long as your Security Ministry decides not to apply the anti-picketing protocol, this has consequences: the streets are freed up to left-wing groups that seek to extort and destabilize the Government, and millions of Argentines who want to move, work and live in peace are harmed”the official wrote in her X account.
The Tension was also felt at the intersection of General Paz Avenue and Route 3, on the La Noria bridge and on the Buenos Aires-La Plata highway, which was cut off. in two points, both on the main road and on the collector: at the entrance from the capital of Buenos Aires to the center of Buenos Aires and a few meters from the height of the Hudson toll, according to reports LN+.
The interruption of traffic caused chaos on the road, where some drivers who were caught in the middle of the force measure turned the wrong way to escape the protest. Around noon, several members of the National Gendarmerie and a fire hydrant truck arrived to disperse the protesters.. The clashes then began. Some of the people, with their faces covered, threw rubble and Molotov cocktails at the troops.
“Our federal forces are deployed where we belong, and there we apply the protocol without hesitation, so that ORDER BE THE RULE”Monteoliva highlighted in his account in the face of the multiple demonstrations that affected this Tuesday morning.
The protest was called by the Piquetero Fighting Frontother organizations of the popular economy and left-wing parties, which denounced a strong social and labor deterioration. Among the main slogans, the protesters reported that they reject “One million layoffs” and the closure of the Back to Work program.
Days ago, through Ministry of Human Capitalhe The Government announced that the last day of payment for this plan would be April 7 and justified that the measure was taken in accordance with the objective set by the portfolio he leads Sandra Pettovello about “prioritize formal labor insertion” and “eliminate intermediation in social plans”. For that program, The 900,000 beneficiaries received a monthly salary of $78,000, a sum that the Government froze. Now, that benefit would be replaced by job training vouchers.
