It may seem like a fiction series but it is not. The red thermometer showed on Wednesday a Thermal sensation of 47 ° degrees in CABA; massive blackouts They left 2 million users without light also at the AMBA. Subtes and trains were interrupted for lack of energy. Street cuts and pans At night in demand for the restoration of the service.
And when heat and light cuts still threatened the daily routine, forcefully broke out The total disaster: a storm in Bahía Blanca already has 10 victims fatal at the close of this note. Babies evacuated from a neonatology sector, families entrenched in roofs asking for help, cars dump on broken routes.
One travels the main channels, social networks and news sites with the latent suspicion that it will continue to see more disaster and the useless hope of horror ending soon. He wants to believe what is told, in addition. That it is an unprecedented natural phenomenon. That nothing could avoid it. That such a trumpet of nature could not be anticipated. And then prevail The silly desire that finally the algorithm shows something else. Fin.
But not. When everyday life is interrupted by such elementary issues as having light, protecting itself from heat or not dying during a storm, It is difficult to pretend dementia. And there is the key to the matter: You can’t take it anymore to live like this.
Los Underground Argentina problems They appeared strongly this week as the water of the sewers that sprouts without control of a pipe broken by wear and time. A pipe that everyone uses but nobody cares. That should not have exploded, first.
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Los two massive blackouts that took place on Wednesday and Thursday They were clearly a Chronicle announced. Since the privatization of energy service in the country, and in particular in AMBA, the service faces strong interruptions that affect us every year, to a greater or lesser extent.
It may not be remembered because the story told sometimes also has memory gaps. But the February 15, 1999in Argentina Menemist, a failure in an Edesur substation in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Montserrat caused a fire that left 700,000 people without light for eleven days. The episode was known as “THE BOX OF THE CENTURY”, And the company had to pay a fine of 100 million pesos.
A little more here in history, the December 22, 2013 During the second government of Cristina Kirchnermore than 11 million people ran out of light in the AMBA. Edesur and Edenor said that the low cost of the rates made them impossible to provide a good service. The then Federal Planning Minister, Julio De Vido, had launched a threat: “The pulse will not shake to make the decisions that correspond if Edenor and Edesur do not restore the electric service immediately.” But the concession continued in the hands of companies.
He January 31, 2017Aranguren, Minister of Energy of Mauricio Macri, announced tariffs between 68 and 148%, ensuring that it would allow it to be “the only way to have energy and grow.” 25 days later, A new supply cut affected 500,000 people in the AMBAwith a temperature that had exceeded 33 degrees.
He January 1, 2023, 20 million users were left without light After a fire occurred in the high voltage line that joins the bell with General Rodríguez, hours after the then Alberto Fernández gave your discourse to open ordinary sessions in Congress. At 17.30 in the afternoon, with half a country without supply, the president tweeted: “Today we live better than three years ago”.
In recent decades, both Edenor and Edesur – the two AMBA energy distributors – received millions in subsidies that They did not go to the necessary investment to improve energy supply. The excuse of the companies was that they did not have enough funds. Any similarity with the past is not pure coincidence.
Now, many tariffs and years later, the excuse of companies is that the service in the country is one of the cheapest in the region. Spoiler Alert: Edesur’s increases tripled inflation in a year, the company registered a real increase in its income by almost 30%. What did the Milei government do on Friday, day after the blackouts? He authorized and officially New Rate Increase For companies and took part of the subsidies to the poorest sectors of the population. Us? Cutting candles. At the close of this note, according to the ENRE, there are still around 120 thousand users without light in the capital and Greater Buenos Aires.
Below the mud is the anger
Follow the chronological line and other news that breaks, as we said, on the national agenda. Floods in Bahía Blanca. The disaster is attributed to the violence of an unprecedented natural phenomenon. Local and foreign politicians parade ensuring that the aid is on their way. 10 dead, thousands of evacuees. Latent fear at this time is that the number of deceased is greater Once the water goes down. The sadness of losing family, friends, houses, the incalculable material value of what has been achieved with the mango every day will remain.
Here it is not necessary to go far in history. On December 16, 2023, a storm hit the place and left a balance of 13 deaddamage in 150 schools, 10,000 affected homes and the roof blast of the Northern Bahian club with dozens of hospitalized.
That same year The tenth anniversary of the floods of La Plata had been fulfilled during the provincial government of Daniel Scioli, that April 2 and 3 left a balance of, At least 89 dead. It is said “at least” because the judicial investigation that was opened then left open the possibility that those killed by the storm were more. But, under the government of María Eugenia Vidal, the judge in charge was dismissed and neither the then governor, nor the mayor Pablo Bruera were investigated in the case.
The fight of family and friends of the victims of La Plata denounced that It was “a social crime”. Because despite the persistent warnings of experts in infrastructure, geomorphology and soils about the needs of carrying out public works to contain the consequences of natural phenomena in the city of the diagonals, nothing was done to prevent water from sweeping with everything. On the contrary, from power the urban planning code was promoted that promoted the construction of buildings and towers. The green light for the real estate business. Us? Swallowing water.
That is why the mud in Bahía Blanca will also be the anger. What would have happened if contingency plans and infrastructure works had been carried out in these years? It is a doubt that we should not have. The Larroque and the Bianco say that the investments were made. But they don’t look. The water covered everything.
@Laizquierdiario during the early hours of Friday rained almost 300 millimeters and the water continues to fall. The images recorded by neighbors are Dantesque. All activities were suspended and there are hundreds of evacuees. After the 2023 storm, the State did nothing to avoid this new tragedy. #bahiablanca #Temporal #inundacion #Tormenta ♬ Original sound – The Left Daily
Leave vú of what will come
The last report of Quarterly forecast of the National Meteorological Service For March and May of this year it warns of temperatures above the usual in almost the entire country. In the province of Buenos Aires, the records are expected in the average, but with Extreme heat wave probability. Meanwhile, he points out that rainfall could be maintained in normal values, although with Punctual heavy rains events.
This is just a source of the many who are warning that extreme climatic phenomena came to stay. But Follow the climbing climate ceased to be a matter relegated to scientists and environmentalists Because they began to affect in an unbearable way to our day to day.
As we know, Extreme climatic phenomena disproportionately affect those we have leastto those who live in our workforce. Capitalism contributes not only to the origin, but also to the inequality of the impacts of climate change.
The lack of adequate infrastructure, precarious housing, constructions for lucrative purposes for the real estate business and the precariousness of basic services aggravate exposure to risks such as floods and heat waves that generated The most atrocious postcards of this last week.
Although our president is a denialist. Although the Governor of the PBA is not but has not allocated in all these years the necessary resources to mitigate it. We live it in our own flesh every day. Reality kills a story.
Take structural measures To guarantee early alert systems, sustainable urban planning and policies aimed at collective well -being above the profits of companies that profit from essential services such as energy, housing or public works is urgent when we cannot and we do not want to continue living as until now. This is part of The demand and the road map that we raised by the militants of the Socialist Workers Party (PTS) In each assembly, workplace and study, and its deputies in Congress and in the streets.
But The political parties of the regime and its representatives perpetuate an economic system that repeats in Loop the climatic and social disasters of the memoirs of the future. After all, everyone supports the structural foundations of the problems of underground Argentina, of Capitalist Argentina. Or did we not see it during the vote of the Bases Law in Congress? Or is it not seen in the adjustment that all governments apply to comply with the IMF? They are your priorities, not ours.
You cannot accept tremendous conviction. It does not belong to us. Why believe that the solution for the problems of everyday life will come hand in hand with the Kueider, cryptoboys, IMF pawns? Maybe Those who inhabit the subsoil of the country are the ones we can provide to the end to the problems that afflict us.
Below the mud is the anger. AND He already began to sprout. Despite the union leaders that are complicit in the disaster. We saw it the 1F next to the diversities, in the awakening of the student movement that flooded the streets in defense of the public university, in the numerous salary struggles and against dismissals that occurred last year throughout the country. We will see it today, March 8 on the marches for International Women’s Day. We will see it next Wednesday 12 in the call to the Congress of Retirees, which increasingly manages to support. Promote and coordinate all these struggles to hit with a single fist, while surrounding the families affected by the storm of solidarity is also the perspective we raise who we are part of the PTS.
Getting that resistance becomes more strength depends on those who do not want to resign ourselves to repeat the history in which they win the same as always, even if they change their names and faces. The idea on the horizon of a government of the below, of workers, that plan the economy at the service of social needs is presented as the only viable option to stop the disaster. As An emergency brake before the capital’s anarchy. Because below the mud is the anger yes, but it moves us The desire of life we want.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
