The Municipality of Montevideo announced that it will continue to support the popular pots from the commune and that, to guarantee transparency, weekly controls are carried out.
This was announced by the mayor, Carolina Cosse, after the Minister of Social Development (MIDES), Martín Lema, ordered that support be stopped for the Popular and Solidarity Coordinator (CPS), which articulates various pots and picnic areas, the decision that It also had the support of the multicolor coalition.
“We don’t just provide support. We monitor and control. If a pot closes, we stop giving food” or the distribution they receive is modified, added Cosse. “We check every week, all the time, and adjust. It is controlled and supported.”
For the frentamplista mayor, the controversy is a “pseudo-discussion” and assured that the debate should focus on the lack of employment because, “if there were work, there would be no pots, because people could eat at home.”
call for a march
The Popular and Solidarity Coordinator called for a march in rejection of MIDES’ decision to leave them without supplies.
The event will take place next Tuesday, October 11 from 6:00 p.m. in Plaza Cagancha, and they will march to the Executive Tower.
From CPS they rejected that there were irregularities on their part, and criticized the government’s decision to move to a system in which food distribution is carried out by the controversial organization Uruguay Adelante, which has also been questioned for distributing food in poor condition and because its President, Santiago Pérez receives a salary from July 2021 -like his sister-, something that is prohibited by law.
The army will help Uruguay Adelante with logistics.
“Today in the Popular and Solidarity Coordinator, and it is verifiable, it brings together 185 initiatives between pots and picnic areas and serves an average of 190,000 portions of food weekly,” said Esteban Corrales, of CPS. And he added: “This cannot be swept under the rug. No way. Much less unload on those of us who carry out the task the frustrations of an absent State”.
