Protests demanding food for the soup kitchens in Argentina. Photo: Express Diario.
Since Javier Milei’s administration as president of Argentina began in December 2023, he made the decision to no longer send food to soup kitchens. The women who are in charge of cooking for the people who benefit from these places say that they don’t get anything: no rice, no pasta, no grains.
This uncovered a large-scale scandal when it became known that the government of El León (Milei) has held more than 5 thousand tons of food in warehouses, while the country is experiencing the worst food, employment and social crisis in history. Poverty grows and as the soup kitchens stopped receiving help from the government, making clear for the majority of Argentinians the nature of Milei’s government.
The situation, unprecedented in Argentina, had grown to affect one of Milei’s star ministers, Sandra Pettovello, head of the Human Capital Ministry, whom the president considers to be the “best” minister of social affairs in decades.
According to the Argentinian press, social leader Juan Grabois, author of the complaint that gave rise to the judicial summons to the government to present an urgent food distribution plan. Among the food retained there are almost 340 thousand kilos of powdered milk that will expire at the end of next month, The list also includes oil, flour and yerba mate. “Distribute the food, scoundrels,” Grabois shot through his social media accounts.
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This same week, the Argentinian president once again categorically opposed all state intervention, even in the face of extreme situations such as hunger. During a visit to the United States at Stanford University he asked the audience “do you think people are so idiotic that they won’t be able to decide?”
“There will come a time when you will die of hunger, so, let’s say, that is, you will decide in some way not to die. So I don’t need someone to intervene to solve the externality of consumption because, in the end, someone is going to solve it,” he continued in a way that many analysts consider a full display of a psychopathic behavior.
Featured image: Protests demanding food for the soup kitchens in Argentina. Photo: Express Diario.
(RedRadioVE) by Victoria Torres
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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