The ruralists who arrived this Saturday at the Plaza de Mayo did so with a slogan broad enough to avoid a specific demand (without any announcement of a rise in retentions involved, the move would be a “just in case”), and at At the same time, unify criteria with the sectors of the opposition that motorized the march: “Enough of tax oppression”. To the “tractor blow” that had its epicenter in front of the Casa Rosada, and in which leaders of Together for Change participated, the slogan “in defense of the Republic and independent Justice” was added.
“We have not come here to ask for a hand, but to get both of us out of it,” they raised with some drama in the document they read. “We are not willing to continue financing the rope with which they hang us.” “We regret that leaders of Together for Change who proclaim themselves Republicans have led a demonstration whose final document characterizes the government legitimately elected by the people as “vandals and usurpers” and the governors as “unworthy alliance of feudal vassalage”, the spokeswoman later marked. presidential, Gabriela Cerruti (see apart).
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These people who work
At the height of the Cathedral, many applauded the advance of the tractors, they carried many Argentine flags, they showed the National Constitution and posters with a hodgepodge of slogans: “If the countryside does not produce, the city does not eat”; “Cristina, stop shitting on the Constitution”; “When the homeland is in danger, everything is allowed, except not defending it”; “Unlimited income tax = U$ millions worked by Cristina”; “No to impunity. Luis Judge to the Council of the M. Stop stealing!!!; “As long as Cris is not in prison, Argentina has no future.” There were posters from Rosario, Santa Fe, Trenque Lauquen, Lincoln, Pergamino, Salta, Santa Cruz and Corrientes, among other provinces and cities in the country.
“I’m tired of being taken ahead, that they overwhelm all my rights,” Enriqueta told Page 12. “What rights?” asked this chronicler. “That of not respecting the Constitution, first; that they challenge me as if I were a fool; that money be wasted creating ministries and on trips that are useless. So I am supporting these people who work”. A friend of Enriqueta did not want to say her name. “I come to defend the countryside against the barbarities that the government is doing. They want to disrupt everything; they want to leave us in total misery and the last thing that remains is to take away from the countryside”, he summarized his position.
-The field earned a lot, had extraordinary income- he retorted Page 12.
-What will win a lot; he never won the field!” exclaimed Enriqueta’s friend and turned her back on this chronicler. In one hand she held the flag; in another, an Argentine Constitution. She waved both hands and shouted, as if she were possessed by an atavistic spirit: “Long live the countryside! Long live the country!”
The field beret is like a class password within another class. A lady in a cream-colored field beret applauded and sang: “Argentina, without Cristina.” Lilian, a retired teacher, spoke with Daniela, another retired, but banker. The two confirmed that they participated in the tractor to “support the countryside and justice.”
“We come to all the marches,” Daniela stressed, as if (almost) perfect attendance went to school. “Did you also come to camp?” This chronicler wanted to know. Then Lilian, with an imposing voice, answered instead of her friend: “Let’s see if we understand each other: we come to marches of civilized people. We do not live from plans, we are not planners, we are working people!”
The opposition parade
The ruralists were advancing on their tractors when a group of women began to exclaim: “The Vidal, The Vidal!!”as if they were talking about a diva: the former governor of the province of Buenos Aires and current deputy, was close.
Not only the tractors paraded towards the Plaza. The opposition political leadership also participated in the demonstration. The president of the Pro, Patricia Bullrich, with presidential aspirations for 2023, took the opportunity to defend the idea of ”lowering taxes” because he considered that “every day they take more money from the countryside.” Other PRO leaders such as the head of the Buenos Aires Government, Horacio Rodriguez Larretaand the deputy Diego Santilli, joined one of the points of the call, on Libertador and Udaondo avenues, where they greeted the protesters and took photos on the tractors. “We always support the field. I do not understand the Government, it confronts workers with workers. Respect the right to demonstrate”, declared the head of the Buenos Aires Government.
In Plaza de Mayo, the Buenos Aires government minister was seen, Jorge Macri, who maintained that the “tractorazo” is a march “of productive politics, of freedom.” Also the leader of the UCR, Facundo Suárez Lastra, the national deputy, Graciela Ocaña, the former president of the Rural Society and former Minister of Agriculture of Macri, Luis Etchevehere –one of the main conveners–; the former provisional president of the Senate, Federico Pinedo; the deputies Luis Petri and Daniel Lipovetsky and the actor Luis Brandoni.
Catalina and Sofía, two young friends of Pergamino, live in the city and study social communication and medicine. They accompanied the mobilization of the ruralists because the parents “work in the fields and they get more and more out of them”. Suddenly several began to sing the national anthem. “What do you want to know? What do we hate? That we don’t want to see them anymore? If you’re going to tell Alberto, we’ll talk. It’s not worth it because he’s not going to get to her; with what he is watching on television it is enough for him”, Silvia got into the talk, along with her mother Susana, “a retiree with a minimum of 32,000 pesos and who pays 15,000 expenses, get the account”, asked her daughter. “They make fun of us, they do nothing. Argentina is in a coma and we have to move it forward, ”Susana asked.