With a so-called invitation to starving people, an Argentine minister caused a queue of almost two kilometers in front of her ministry. Hundreds of people lined up in the capital Buenos Aires on Monday in front of the official residence of ultra-liberal President Javier Milei’s minister of social policy, Sandra Pettovello. The “hunger queue” stretched for nearly 30 blocks.
The starting point were statements made by the minister last week after demonstrators in front of her ministry denounced delays in the delivery of food to soup kitchens. Pettovello – Minister of Human Capital according to his official title – then said: “I will do this: guys, are you hungry? Everyone comes individually, I take down your ID, your name, where you come from and you receive individual help.”
The demonstrators now took the minister at her word and stood in line in front of her ministry. However, they were not received: presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni said on Monday that Pettovello had not invited anyone and would not receive anyone. She only ‘spontaneously’ expressed her intention to help every individual.
At the same time, in view of new President Milei’s draconian austerity measures, Adorni claimed that the government would never cut food aid – ‘in a country where practically half live in poverty and five million people do not eat enough every day. .” (sda/afp)
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