John Grabois, leader of the Great Fatherland Front, starred in a tense crossing at the international airport of Ezeiza upon his arrival in the country from Rome, Italy, where he traveled to meet with Pope Francis, a friend and main political ally. “You know what the difference is between you and us, which is we have courage“, Grabois shouted in front of the escrache, which included boos and insults from several people who were in the immigration queue to enter the country.
Alert to criticism, the leader of the Great Fatherland Front had already posted on his Facebook account a week ago, a long text in which he recounted the reasons for his trip to Rome. “Dear colleagues and colleagues: I am leaving Rome; here I came invited by the Sant’Egidio Community to an international conference on peace where, together with our friend João Pedro Stédile from the Movement of the Landless in Brazil, we shared the experience and conclusions of the Meetings of Popular Movements with Pope Francis“.
“I took advantage of the invitation to start an investigation on socio-labour and cooperative, educational, housing, agricultural, judicial prosecutorial, environmental, strategic resource planning and protection models from various countries in Europe to see how we can improve the sad situation of our country and think strategically how to get up; without copying, without tracing, but drawing inspiration from the politics of this part of the world,” he added.
“Thanks to good friends, I received invitations from several countries to tell about our experience and I have a schedule of meetings in Oslo, Stockholm, Berlin, Paris, Barcelona and Madrid with civil servants, social and union leaders. I hope to come back with ideas that will help us to reflect collectively and build superior proposals that will become State policies to recover decent levels of human development and reverse the decline that we have suffered in what seems to be a lost decade,” he continued.
“Meanwhile, as you know, in Argentina the registration of the bond for which we fought so much was opened so that no one remains destitute. Our evaluation is that it was unfortunate. Beyond the operational problems that there can always be, the amount of restrictions that were put on people surprised me. How can it be that there are officials so concerned about count the ribs to the poor while the large agro-exporters, the transnational companies, the international credit organizations, the middle and upper classes receive subsidies without much requirement,” he pointed out against Sergio Massa, Minister of Economy, a declared rival.
And attentive to criticism of his trip, he targeted the local media. “Obviously Clarin lies. Nobody financed me. I would like one day that all the crowd of slanderers who get on the fantasies of the corpo and live for years of politics show how it is that there are CEOs of poverty … this strange business of being a CEO, living in a neighborhood of workers , take your kids to public school, use a union social work… while they who are not CEOs of poverty but promoters of collective prosperity and great statesmen, all became millionaires!” Grabois charged in his text.
“Do not come to play the saints, the austere, the meritocratic, the anti-state and throw shit at us those of us who live humbly… because of Bullrich to Pichetto They have all lived off the state and politics for decades… and they don’t seem very austere. They will never be able to prove that we are left with a single penny simply because it is a lie. They put fanciful figures to confuse people; everything that is investment in social and labor projects is fine: it is work, dignity, security, growth; In any case, it remains to be seen whether these funds were used well or badly, “he concluded.
by RN
