The secretary general ATE province of Buenos Aires, Oscar de Isasi, he repudiated the statements made by officials of the Vidal administration in which they claimed “to want to end the unions”, but celebrates “that they have come to the fore.”
“These types of events, such as those in the video, provide evidence of what really happened during the government of (Mauricio) Macri and (María Eugenia) Vidal, is consistent with what they came to implement”, said the leader to Télam.
In this way he referred to the complaint filed by the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI) against officials of former governor Vidal from videos in which Marcelo Villegas, the former Buenos Aires Minister of Labor, assured in a meeting with businessmen that he had a plan to end the unions through legal proceedings.
“Without a doubt they wanted to impose an anti-popular plan of greater concentration of wealth and increased poverty“, he said and added that, to achieve this objective,” it was necessary to destroy the popular organizations, destroy their union leaders. “
He also said that “Villegas speaks with brutal sincerity” regarding the objectives of his portfolio, precisely the one that had to “protect work.”
In addition, he focused on the stated goal of “destroy trade union organizations, with blood and fire, and persecute union leaders “, and argued that” this is what they tried to do and did in some cases“.
In fact, he indicated that, in his case, he has “a cause that is really an infamy”, in which “the defense of Rio Santiago Shipyard so that it wouldn’t close, and that’s one more proof of what Villegas said. “
In this context, he noted: “We repudiate these facts but welcome that it has come to the fore” and he opined that “the popular organizations were not defeated”.
“Those of us who have the responsibility of being in the popular field reaffirm this commitment to continue organizing, fighting and working to build a more just society and a participatory, democratic state at the service of the majority,” he said.
At that point, he said that “hopefully those who want to return to those black nights that the Argentine people eradicated will pay dearly, because if there is a positive political fact in all this it is that these neo-Nazi characters have to subordinate themselves to the polls, they can no longer usurp power by other methods. ”
