Misiones: Police accepted the provincial government’s offer and set up their camp | Teachers’ protest continues

After camping for almost thirteen days in front of the Posadas Radioelectric Command, the uniformed men protesting against the Misiones government finally accepted the latest offer Provincial authorities dismantled the tenterias set up on Uruguay Street, in the capital city. The announcement was made after a meeting that representatives of the dissatisfied uniformed personnel held at midnight on Tuesday with various government emissaries, including the Minister of Coordination, Héctor Llera, and of the Doing, Adolfo Safran, in addition to the head of the force, Commissioner Sandro Martínez.

The decision was made known early this Wednesday by retired non-commissioned officers Ramon Amarilla and Germán Palavecino.Spokesperson and representative of the group of active and retired agents of both the Missionary Police and the Penitentiary Service who, since Friday, May 17, have been camping in the streets of the El Palomar neighborhood of Posada, waiting for a salary reform that would restore the purchasing power lost by the inflationary stampede of recent times.

“Compromise agreement”

Although the details of the arrangement (titled “Settlement Agreement”) were not precisely detailed, As Amarilla explained in a text read in the corner of the command just after one o’clock in the morning), this includes another sensitive aspect for the police: Amnesty from all summary or criminal proceedings resulting from the protests. The fact is that over the weekend complaints made by the provincial government against leaders of the negligent police were made public, including charges of treason and inciting violence.

Furthermore, it is estimated that the increase proposed by the government is an average increase of 50 percent.barely a tenth more than the previous offer and exactly half of what the police were asking for. It is believed that the final acceptance was influenced by some of the wear and tear that the police suffered in camping in the coldest temperatures of the year.

However, what Amarilla and Palavesino announced at the corner of Uruguay and Félix Bogado was The uniformed men posted at the camp greeted the rally with applause, even though it is a far cry from the figure they had initially adamantly demanded.

Teacher, alone

This is the other side of the “compromise agreement” signed with the government of Hugo Passalacqua (who had gone through thirteen days of police protests without expressing himself on the matter apart from the usual publications on his social networks) This meant breaking alliances with teaching groups that were demanding exactly the same thing for themselves in a similar camp on the same street but a block away. The possibility that the men in uniform would arrange things themselves and abandon the united front already existed on Monday night, when teachers and professors received news of a meeting that the dissatisfied security forces were going to hold with provincial officials at the headquarters of the police.

That alliance was realized on Tuesday of last week, when hundreds of teachers blocked the Garupa Bridge (one of the main avenues of Posadas) and then received a proposal from Ramón Amarilla to abandon that sit-in to retreat together to Uruguay Avenue.The agreement included not leaving any camp until both parties reached a single agreement with the missionary government, which the police broke this morning.

Although later both the police and the teachers filed different complaints, Last Sunday, Amarilla and Palavecino approached the education workers’ camp to establish their position and outline various suggestions. Microphone in hand, Amarilla committed to maintaining the deal he himself had proposed: “We are all in the wrong and we have to solve the conflict with everyone, not first with the police and then they send us to face each other, because that would be a fight of the poor against the poor,” he said. However two days later his words were contrary to his actions.

In the same speech to the protesting teachers, The retired senior deputy commissioner also expressed his disagreement with the roadblocks and caravans headed toward the homes of Frente Renovador de la Concordia political leaders Hugo Passalacqua and Carlos Rovira. who have ruled the province uninterruptedly since 2003. “I want to advise you: you have nothing to gain by engaging in crime here; I respect what we are all doing out of compulsion, which is protesting to show the government what is happening to us and that it does not want to accept it, but our fight is here,” he said, preferring the camp as a special protest mechanism.

However, Just a day later, uniformed officers found themselves surprised by a barrage of lawbreakers as they gathered in patrol cars to be taken to Government House. Pedestrians crossing the streets and leaving in their wake the sounds of explosions, which were never clear if they were firecrackers thrown on public roads or rubber bullets being fired. Asked about these maneuvers, Amarilla wanted to distance himself: “We have called them to reflect that this is not the way, but we could not stop them. “People cannot take it anymore.”

Underneath it all, behind the curtain of renewal, it is about measuring the political cost that such a performance on the national agenda is bringing to this provincial electoral coalition for a problem that has not yet been resolved, as other sources of conflict remain. A kind of damage control due to the unforeseen errors that put Misiones in the spotlight.

Thus, from today the teachers will be left alone (with a small presence of health personnel) on Uruguay Street, The center of a strategy that extends to the interior of the province with mobilizations and various cuts on routes and towns, a method that they analyze in depth. And although it is anticipated that the negotiating table with the government will reopen this weekend, a concern that has always been in the air is back on the table: what if the same police officers who until hours ago were sharing the trenches are now ordered to enforce in Misiones the so-called “protocol for the maintenance of public order in the event of road closures”.