From Posadas
While the national agenda was attentive to the act of President Javier Milei in the Cabildo of Córdoba, on May 25, Misiones contributed an unprecedented event for the coastal province and extremely sensitive in the context of the numerous protests that have been experienced here for ten years. days: uA caravan of cars processed to the house of Carlos Rovira, the driver of the Frente Renovador para la Concordia and main political leader of the region.
The decision was made after the popular celebration that crowned the activities for May 25 that teachers and professors organized in their camp on Uruguay Street and Trincheras de San José, in the Posada neighborhood of El Palomar. This excursion to the sumptuous Rovira home in the exclusive area of Puerto Laurel, northwest of the provincial capital, It took many by surprise, since never in his three decades of political activity had the two-time governor of Misiones suffered a protest action of such magnitude..
Among the different versions about the reasons that prompted this mobilization, several highlight the offensive messages that different missionary government officials dedicated to the campers on Uruguay Street in the early hours of the day, using the anniversary of the May Revolution as excuse to promote this type of incriminating messages.
At the time of the arrival of the columns of cars, a large security personnel were already present in the block of Rovira’s residence, mainly men dressed in civilian clothes who served as a human barrier at the entrance. There was a brief struggle between them and the protesters, although without major consequences. Later, several special forces uniformed men with shields and even a fire engine were added to the operation.
In this context, the teachers did the same as last Thursday, when they marched to the home of Governor Hugo Passalacqua after the mobilization towards the provincial legislature: they opened a microphone to leave a message out loud in the street. “We came here to tell the driver of the Renovación that we are tired of being kept in destitution and poverty,” Mónica Gurina, undergraduate teacher and general secretary of the CTA-Autonomous of Misiones, said over the loudspeaker.
“While he lives in opulence, in our house there is no food, we cannot pay for electricity, we cannot pay the credit card. That’s what we came to tell you,” concluded Gurina, who a few days ago confessed that he has been in the field for 31 years and earns 370 thousand pesos, not much more than the 250 thousand of his colleagues who are just starting out.
After that, and by common agreement with the security forces (who, unlike last Thursday, decided not to repress and opted to negotiate), the protesters agreed to leave, although they left an unprecedented precedent in this type of escrache at home that had started on Thursday in front of the building inhabited by Passalacqua.
