This week, Minister of Social Development Victoria Tolosa Paz met with leftist social movement coalition Unidad Piquetera (UP) and the Social Economy Workers’ Union (UTEP), which brings together pro-government social organizations, to negotiate welfare payments. Their measures included camping outside the Social Development Ministry on 9 de Julio Avenue, in the center of Buenos Aires. Unidad Piquetera, which sits further to the left politically than UTEP and has a more conflictive relationship with the government, met with Victoria Tolosa Paz on Wednesday but reached an impasse. The organization says it will wait for the Ministry to meet its commitments, including delivering food, making payments on time, and restoring Potenciar Trabajo social plans. UP leaders said that, as they did a month ago, their organizations would continue to protest if Tolosa Paz did not keep her promises.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald December 29, 2022 20:56 UTC