Far from combating drug trafficking, the discourse that the national and provincial governments want to install is one of criminalization of workers. They carried out an operation of intimidation and repression against precarious workers and bagayeros.
The people of Oran responded bravely by rebelling and resisting repression by federal forces. Also, families, friends and the people of Orán held a large mobilization demanding justice for Fernando Gómez and stating that Bullrich and Saenz are lying, since they are not “measures” against drug traffickers, but against working people.
The deputy of the Left Front, Alejandro Vilcatraveled to Oran and accompanied the great mobilization.
They want to make the adjustment happen with repression in a province where poverty and job insecurity are growing. Governments respond with Güemes Planwhich has been implemented for a little more than 10 days and has sought to intimidate the cocacol and bagayero workers in the area, who have no other source of work, as one of Fernando’s relatives expressed: “He went out to look for a piece of bread and never more came back.”
Sáenz, Massa’s friend and Bullrich, partners in repression
Gustavo Saenz ally of Massa in Unión por la Patria, from the first moment he showed himself close to the policies of the Milei government. With the votes of deputies Pamela Calleti, Pablo Outes and Yolanda Vega in favor of Milei’s laws, big businessmen and the IMF began to emerge as “Peronism with a wig.”
That is why the governments’ discourse of criminalizing workers is not surprising. Minister Patricia Bullrich treated them as “violent drug traffickers” in her account X, while Governor Saenz replied: “Not a step back. We take care of our border. The Güemes Plan advances.”
The mayor of Orán, Baltasar Lara Gros, following the government’s arguments, minimized the repression and stated that they want the Güemes Plan to fail. For his part, the auditor of Aguas Blancas, Adrián Zigarán, stated that “it would not be surprising if the leaders of these people have sent them to recover and in the middle they have killed one of them to throw a dead man at Bullrich.” Thus, both national and provincial officials justify the repression.
Build endurance strength
Now we have to continue preparing days of struggle in a united manner, accompanying the people of Orán for justice for Fernando Gómez. We have the challenge of developing a great strength of resistanceso it is necessary to organize ourselves from every school, university, place of study, work and neighborhood to stop the adjustment that they try to impose with repression and by negotiating with the union bureaucracy and the complicity of all the employers’ parties.
It is important to coordinate from below between the different sectors that we found in the streets this year against the basic law, in defense of public education, as was the university struggle where students and teachers were protagonists with assemblies that defined measures such as the taking of the rectorate, public classes and mobilizations through the streets of the city. Cultural sectors also came out that mobilized shouting “Niâca” and groups of the women’s movement that were in the streets on March 8, the day of pride for our rights.
We have to unite the self-organized teaching sectors, universities, students, cultural sectors, women’s movement groups, retirees, health workers, precarious workers, unemployed and state workers to strengthen the struggle.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
