Margarita Barrientos: "Sigue aumentando la pobreza", y dijo: "No recibimos nada del Gobierno"
La crisis económica en el país está llevando a más personas, incluso de clase media, a depender de comedores comunitarios. Con el costo de vida en aumento y los salarios estancados, muchos trabajadores no pueden cubrir sus necesidades básicas. La situación es alarmante: jubilados, personas con empleo y familias enteras enfrentan dificultades para acceder a alimentos. Las voces de la calle reflejan una realidad que las estadísticas confirman con retraso: la pobreza ha aumentado significativamente desde el último gobierno, afectando a un 52.9% de la población según datos recientes.
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00:00It's true that I never got to this, because in my time, you couldn't see this.
00:03Here you brought your food, right?
00:05Yes, I brought my food.
00:07And also for your daughter is this plate of food?
00:09Yes, yes, for my daughter and for my granddaughter.
00:11Because life is very expensive, everything, everything is desperate.
00:15In truth, the state should do this, right?
00:19I am in charge of a hotel, without a home.
00:23I work 16 hours a day, but I don't even get to pay the rent.
00:29Thanks to these people, we are having a plate of food on the table.
00:33With the minimum wage.
00:36With the minimum wage, there is no chance of being able to buy food?
00:40No, it's already very expensive, and the issue of increasing taxes, it can't be done anymore.
00:47The truth is that it's impossible to live like this, I don't know what's going to happen to this government.
00:51If we have three more years, I don't know where we're going to end up.
00:54But now they come from everywhere.
00:56I mean, it's not the indigent person.
01:00Now it's everything.
01:03Are there middle-class people?
01:05Yes, also.
01:07The reality is this, people are hungry, money is not enough.
01:13And in the dining rooms here, there are more and more people.
01:17Many retirees and even people who work.
01:22We come here to eat, because we are having a hard time.
01:24Are you working right now?
01:26I'm on the street.
01:28He doesn't eat in school, because in school they don't give him food anymore.
01:32They don't give him more food in school?
01:34They took him out of the scholarship.
01:36We had a scholarship, but we are having a hard time.
01:39It's not a shame, but at the same time I felt humiliated.
01:43I felt hit, because I was fine.
01:45It was normal, I was a normal person.
01:47Don't fall out of the system at any time.
01:50We were poor before, now we are poorer than poor.
01:54It's a shame to go out and ask.
01:56People in a business tell you not to ask for bread.
02:00Not for me, I drink mate.
02:02He has to eat, he has to be well, but that hurts.
02:06I hate indifference.
02:10One thing is the numbers.
02:12One thing is the 52.9% of poverty that spread yesterday.
02:16Poverty is measured by the month of June.
02:18Let's see how much it is today.
02:21But another thing is the voices.
02:23And throughout these months,
02:26the chronicle of going out on the street and just putting on the microphone
02:30and listening to what people say,
02:32already warned us that this was going to happen.
02:34That these 11 points of increase in poverty,
02:38from the one left by Alberto Fernández,
02:40which was no wonder,
02:42to what is happening today,
02:45were happening because we were listening to it in notes like this.
02:49Throughout all these months,
02:51we were anticipating what statistics corroborate now,
02:55and with two months of delay,
02:57with three months of delay,
02:59that's what journalistic chronicles are for.
03:01Marcelo Padovani, who are you with?
03:05We are in the neighborhood of Los Piletones.
03:07You are seeing the corridors.
03:09This is where Margarita Barrientos' dining room works.
03:12But we also wanted to show you the outside of what this dining room is,
03:15because in a little while more,
03:17people are going to come here to look for their food ration,
03:19or directly to stay and eat here
03:21in this large living room that the Los Piletones dining room has.
03:24I invite you to come in. Margarita invited us,
03:26so I also dare to invite the viewers to come in,
03:29to the Los Piletones dining room.
03:31There are already people waiting here.
03:33They are in the middle of doing the floor work,
03:36because, as I told you, in a little while more,
03:38this table is going to be set up
03:41and several people are going to come to eat.
03:43Look, 2,000 people, Rolo, are coming to eat,
03:45or take their portion of food.
03:47If you like, we are going to enter.
03:49Look, they are cooking potato cake.
03:51Today there is potato cake here in the dining room.
03:55Los Piletones, 34 trays of large potato cakes.
03:59You have to cook for 2,000 people.
04:01And well, look at the people who work here.
04:03Look, one, two, three, four.
04:05Here was the head of the kitchen.
04:07You were, right?
04:09How are you? What is your name?
04:11Isabel.
04:12Isabel, you are going to make potato cake.
04:14How many people work for you at this time?
04:18Every day, among volunteers,
04:20there are more than 40 people working.
04:25More than 40 people working to make 2,000 portions,
04:27they told me, more or less.
04:29Yes, more.
04:31Because there are about 200 people,
04:33and the portions are more than 2,000.
04:38One part they eat here,
04:40the other part they take to the tappers.
04:42Yes, exactly.
04:43Well, thank you. Very kind.
04:45Look, Rolo, if you like,
04:47we are going to let the people work here.
04:49We are going to talk to Margarita.
04:51Let's see if ...
04:53Here is Margarita in the office.
04:55Let's see. Margarita?
04:57Here is Margarita.
04:59Come, Margarita.
05:03We are live for America News
05:05with Rolo Grani and the whole team.
05:07I was wondering, guys,
05:09if this was noticed,
05:11if the increase in the index was noticed.
05:13And I'm going to ask Margarita again.
05:15Did you notice the index of the rise in poverty
05:17in these months?
05:19Yes, this is not from now.
05:21This is an index that we have been
05:23saying for a long time,
05:25because there are many places
05:27where you don't see that poverty is there,
05:29and many don't see it.
05:31We, who walk through the provinces,
05:33who work,
05:36we see it every day.
05:38And not only that,
05:40but we also have
05:42underweight children,
05:44malnourished children,
05:46pregnant mothers
05:48with malnutrition problems.
05:50So this has been seen
05:52for a long time.
05:56Margarita Graña is speaking to you.
05:58Do you have a minute-by-minute
06:00of poverty there?
06:02Because we have seen
06:04the statistics of the index
06:06measured in June.
06:08If you had to calculate
06:10from June to here,
06:12is poverty still increasing?
06:14Yes.
06:16Yes.
06:18We have a balance
06:20of many,
06:22many more people.
06:24One, because we see it
06:26every day.
06:28And another, because we work
06:30in several Commodores.
06:33We have Cañuela,
06:35Santiago del Estero,
06:37so we have been working
06:39for a long time
06:41in many Commodores
06:43that are working here.
06:45And in your case,
06:47how is the issue
06:49of food?
06:51Did the national government
06:53stop giving you food?
06:55Did you get food from the national government?
06:57How is that?
06:59We have a program
07:01called PENU.
07:03We buy food,
07:05but we have not received anything
07:07from the national government.
07:09The truth is that when
07:11the milk, rice and herbs
07:13came out,
07:15we thought
07:17that something
07:19could touch us,
07:21but unfortunately
07:23nothing touched us.
07:25So nothing came to you
07:27from what you say
07:30Not even a quarter of the milk.
07:34And did you receive from Margarita?
07:36When did you stop receiving?
07:42In the previous
07:44president,
07:46he had sent us twice,
07:48but
07:50the food was in a very
07:52bad state,
07:54so we could not
07:56eat it directly.
08:00At what rate is the
08:02people who ask you for food growing?
08:06At what rate?
08:08Every day there are families
08:10who integrate.
08:12Many times we have
08:14run out of food,
08:16because
08:18they also eat
08:20150 or 200 people
08:22sitting at the table,
08:24eating and leaving
08:26and others arriving.
08:28We have had to
08:30run out of food many times.
08:32And Margarita,
08:34does it happen that
08:36three generations go from
08:38the same family?
08:40A grandmother, a father, a mother
08:42and also the children or grandchildren?
08:44Yes.
08:46Yes.
08:48It happens to us.
08:50That happens every day.
08:52If not, the grandmother who comes
08:54to get food with the mother,
08:57some eat,
08:59others take it to school.
09:01That happens every day.
09:03Every day we put
09:05new families at the table.
09:07This one came for the first time,
09:09we met him there.
09:11We approached him
09:13and asked him where he came from.
09:15Some came from
09:17Ezeiza, others from
09:19Catan, others from
09:21Ferrer, from Moreno.
09:23We have people
09:25from everywhere.
09:27One thing is to eat,
09:29but the person who sits at the table
09:31also tells you his story.
09:33Yes, of course.
09:35Many times,
09:37as I always say,
09:39I am a grandmother,
09:41I am a mother,
09:43I am a psychologist,
09:45because many times
09:47you have to cheer up
09:49the family,
09:51because we are
09:54sad, we are sad,
09:56we are depressed,
09:58everything that is happening to us.
10:00And that is sad,
10:02that a family member
10:04falls into depression
10:06because of everything that is happening.
10:08It is very sad.
10:10Are there more and more retirees
10:12who will ask you for food?
10:14Yes, yes, yes.
10:16At the moment we have
10:1873 grandparents who retire
10:20and others who eat sitting down.
10:22They retire because
10:24they are given a separate meal.
10:28Margarita, we thank you
10:30for your time and your information.
10:32I send you a hug.