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[00:00:00] supplies, postponing [00:00:03] eh, postponing surgeries, that happens in the richest city in the country, of [00:00:07] course it also happens in San Martín, the province of Buenos Aires, it happens everywhere, you know why, [00:00:10] because doctors earn nothing in Argentina, [00:00:13] they earn less and less every time, there are no nurses, there are no [00:00:16] anesthetists, eh, they are not hired because there is austerity everywhere, [00:00:20] that happens and I was thinking it [00:00:23] triggered me because Silvio mentioned God's hand, not looking for God's [00:00:34] Ignacio in Rosario, a healing [00:00:37] really thank priest, [00:00:39] to sooner or whose masses are deepened what multitudinous, [00:00:42] multitudinous and what they told me about that mass caught my [00:00:45] attention, that there were as many [00:00:48] people asking for health issues [00:00:52] as people asking for work, like [00:00:55] a San Cayetano in Rosario, in Greater Rosario, not a very [00:00:59] hard-hit part of the country, Greater Rosario, like all the industrial zones of [00:01:03] Argentina, but it surprised me that that mass, which [00:01:06] was for people who went to ask for health, [00:01:09] now it's a mass, it's a mass where people go [00:01:12] to ask as if it were a modern San Cayetano [00:01:15] to Father Ignacio for [00:01:19] health but also for work, half of that immense [00:01:23] mass that happens on Saturdays in [00:01:25] Rosario, today asks for work beyond [00:01:29] health, this is part of the Argentine [00:01:32] postcard, eh, Ronia, I want to ask [00:01:36] you about the kids, on the other hand, we are talking about the older ones, how [00:01:40] do you see the kids in Argentina today, are they [00:01:44] I don't know, more unprotected, do [00:01:46] more kids come to the gym wanting, wanting to find a [00:01:50] way out or do you see it more or less the same issue of the kids, no, the kids [00:01:54] always look for a way out, they don't have work, Roña, we can [00:01:57] practice eh... some are charged, some are not charged, but [00:02:01] well, it happens, this is happening, eh, [00:02:05] there are kids in the square, drugs are everywhere every day on every [00:02:08] corner, whoever wants to grab it grabs it, [00:02:12] but there are many who are protected by this, before at least [00:02:16] they had a little money of 75 pesos, [00:02:20] they took everything from them, they were left without a penny and so [00:02:24] they keep getting worse and worse, and on top of that we have [00:02:27] to endure another year, it's not [00:02:35] rope, the rope eventually breaks, at some point the rope breaks, [00:02:38] you understand, we are getting worse, what happens is [00:02:42] that here in Buenos Aires, it looks very nice, the lights, everything [00:02:46] illuminated, everything, you have to look at the [00:02:48] invest, no, because the conditions in sides, on the sides there is poverty, misery, I [00:02:51] went through the north, it's one thing to see it, another thing to tell about it, [00:02:55] the north is very unprotected, very unprotected, the [00:02:59] people from the Impenetrable of Catamarca, of [00:03:02] the north, eh Santiago del Estero, La Rioja, all [00:03:06] that, it's one thing to tell you about it, as I always say, another thing is to [00:03:11] go and talk to the people, that's why we try to go with the cameras to the places, I mean, [00:03:14] beyond inviting people here to show, not to talk in [00:03:17] first person so that people tell us, Lucas Blanco is also with us, [00:03:21] he is an economist, eh Lucas, thanks for [00:03:25] coming, for accompanying us, [00:03:29] um, we just asked Silvio, uh, uh, uh [00:03:33] Juana, how much more time, eh [00:03:37] the work that how much, how much, how long will it take to improve the situation so that [00:04:06] breaks your heart to hear eh, cases like these, eh, I mean, [00:04:09] we inherited a country where pensioners were earning $80, where [00:04:13] 40% of the purchasing power in real [00:04:16] terms was lost in 4 years in pensions, where not only [00:04:19] pensioners were affected, but we had six out of 10 poor children [00:04:23] and well, eh, that is, we are going through a crisis that [00:04:26] is still not solved, that still [00:04:30] exists, where we have a labor market where the majority of [00:04:33] people or at least close to 50% work informally, so [00:04:37] they do not contribute to the pension fund, which is what then sustains pensions, [00:04:40] eh, we had two out of three pensioners who retired [00:04:44] through moratorium without the corresponding contributions and today we [00:04:47] find ourselves with a very complicated social [00:04:50] situation that the government aims and [00:04:54] actively works to resolve some data such as child [00:04:57] poverty [00:05:00] has experienced a notable improvement from six out of 10 to four out of 10 poor children, just [00:05:03] as poverty in general dropped from 50 to [00:05:06] 30%. That does not mean that there are no people obviously who are having [00:05:11] smile, he got emotional and a hard time and that it is. in all places, [00:05:13] let's say, similar the case, no, but if one wants [00:05:17] to aspire to correct this in the long term, they have to do it sustainably, [00:05:21] without returning to fiscal deficit, without generating inflation, what happens is that Lucas, [00:05:24] there are people, I discuss this with all economists and and others and the [00:05:28] heroes of Excel, no, there are people who do not have [00:05:31] time, Silvio and Juana do not have [00:05:35] time and when one puts politics in first person with [00:05:39] a name and surname, Excel does not exist. [00:05:45] what you say, but politics in [00:05:49] general, the leaders will have [00:05:52] later prioritize Silvio and [00:05:55] Juana, and not Peter Thiel [00:05:58] and not Marcos Galperín, I mean, I know it's [00:06:01] complex because the blanket is short, I understand that very clearly, but I have the feeling that [00:06:05] in Argentina the same people always lose, as [00:06:08] Silvio and Juana are losing today who have a frozen bonus of 7000 [00:06:12] pesos. 3 years ago, that is, [00:06:15] I disagree, first of all, with Excel, I also, I mean, [00:06:19] I talk a lot about Excel, these are people, I mean, what INDEC measures, [00:06:22] in the end, no matter how much it's shown through numbers, [00:06:26] are people, obviously you can't break down each [00:06:29] person one by one and tell you all the names, but it's not just INDEC, the Argentine [00:06:33] Catholic University also measures poverty with other [00:06:37] methodologies and it showed a decrease, [00:06:39] eh, let's see, the problem is if you give them false hope, you [00:06:43] can, let's say, go back to the model of fiscal deficit, of monetary [00:06:46] emission, put money in people's pockets, but if [00:06:50] that money you put in one pocket then comes out the other, what you're [00:06:54] going to end up causing is that the Silvio who comes in 4 years will be [00:06:58] even worse, so you'll have [00:07:01] bread for today, hunger for tomorrow, then that the [00:07:04] country is governed for the rich, let's see, Galperín left the [00:07:08] country precisely because the country scares away the rich, what remains in Argentina is Galperín's [00:07:12] company. Which in any case generates profit, generates jobs, well, it generates [00:07:15] profit, that's not right, the company that generates [00:07:19] profit, that's why, but I mean, it's generating profit, but that [00:07:23] profit, let's say, it generates by offering a service to [00:07:26] people that generates jobs and let's not forget that through MercadoPago, a large [00:07:30] number of people who used to get paid in cash [00:07:34] and today at least have a legitimate way of receiving [00:07:37] money and generating some return, so Marcos Galperín is not the bad [00:07:41] guy because you think. No, nobody talked about Marcos, you talked about Marcos, I [00:07:44] don't think, I, I mentioned him, but I don't think Marcos Galperín is [00:07:48] the bad guy, Marcos Galperín seeks to [00:07:51] maximize his profit like all entrepreneurs, that is, then there is the fact that [00:07:54] each one has greater responsibility, I don't care about that, [00:07:58] I mean, eh, sometimes it seems that the field is [00:08:01] tilted in such a way that Silvios, Juanas, pensioners, [00:08:05] cancer patients, always lose, [00:08:09] that is, because I'm not so sure. [00:08:12] that pensioners today are better off than 3 [00:08:16] years ago, rather I think the opposite, no, rather I think that today pensioners [00:08:19] are worse off than 3 years ago and and [00:08:23] and you say well and I can give you the reason, this, hey, now inflation [00:08:27] has dropped considerably, if the problem was only [00:08:30] inflation, why do I think that pensioners, it [00:08:34] seems to me, or my friends tell me because my grandparents, my close [00:08:38] pensioners no longer live, that [00:08:41] their grandparents are worse off or their parents are worse off, why does that happen, why is [00:08:44] there that dichotomy, Lucas, that inflation goes down, but pensioners are [00:08:48] worse off? Well, first, the pensioners' [00:08:52] basket is different from the basket that a person [00:08:56] who is not a pensioner has, that is a general basket that is not the same in the case of [00:08:59] pensioners, anyway it is also false that [00:09:03] subsidies for medicines were removed, no, it is not false, [00:09:06] no, no, no, many no, I want to explain it, I want to explain [00:09:10] it, you have to do the paperwork, that is, a series of requirements were put in place to [00:09:13] access 100% of the subsidy, I mean, my father is also a pensioner, [00:09:17] but no, my mother is also a pensioner they removed the [00:09:20] 100% coverage for chronic diseases, I [00:09:23] know because we pay for it, that is, it's not that I [00:09:27] account for it, at least what Pami communicates, beyond that I have the personal case of [00:09:31] my father who also consumes antihypertensives eh because he has high [00:09:34] blood pressure and he has a subsidy on antihypertensives, beyond the [00:09:37] personal case, Pami what it sets is a series of requirements to access the [00:09:41] subsidy such as eh having less than, that is, earning less than [00:09:44] 1.5 minimum, the minimum, I tell you a concrete [00:09:47] case, the minimum in case of having a disability is three, they are [00:09:51] three salaries in case of presenting a disability, they are three [00:09:54] salaries, eh, or the sum of three minimum salaries, but when Pami stops paying, [00:09:58] but I mean, there are subsidies, what happens is that some things to [00:10:02] clarify, first, by switching [00:10:05] medicines to over-the-counter, a lot [00:10:08] of medicines stopped [00:10:11] having coverage. Medicines do not have [00:10:14] coverage, that first happened not only to pensioners but to a lot of people, [00:10:18] that on the one hand, then it is true that [00:10:21] eh the requirements were tightened, it is [00:10:25] true, I have, we can discuss whether it is right or [00:10:29] not, I think so, but we have to help older adults so that they can [00:10:32] meet those requirements, no doubt, no doubt, not two things and finally, when [00:10:35] Pami stops paying, it doesn't matter if there is a subsidy or not, because there are [00:10:39] four provinces in Argentina, one I think is Catamarca, where [00:10:43] Pami in its largest centers had to stop providing care because [00:10:47] Pami stopped paying providers, so, let's say, it [00:10:51] starts to be a coverage, a ghost coverage, I mean. [00:10:56] Argentina far from improving, I think it has [00:11:02] was wrong, pensioners were having a hard time 3 years ago, we all [00:11:06] agree, they are having a worse time today, I particularly think [00:11:25] well, listening to you, but we also want to thank [00:11:29] both Juana and Silvio for the solidarity of the people who are [00:11:32] watching us, the Crónica audience, who is always present [00:11:36] helping, because Juana tells me, today I bought a package of [00:11:40] sugar, I had 19 cents left in my account [00:11:43] nothing more, and now thanks to the people who are [00:11:47] watching, eh, well, of course Juana and [00:11:51] Silvio's Mercado Pago is growing. [00:12:14] for Juana and Silvio so that nothing, [00:12:17] tomorrow at least tomorrow they have a penny in their [00:12:21] Mercado Pago to be able to buy bread [00:12:24] and and... and drink something hot, the truth is that [00:12:28] the truth is that it makes me very happy, but it also makes me very sad that it is [00:12:31] us, who [00:12:35] have to take responsibility and be responsible for what other [00:12:39] people should be doing, no, us, Juana, Silvio, the [00:12:42] truth is that we are delighted to help them, also the [00:12:45] Roña's foundation eh, to give them a hand with the visibility of the [00:12:49] work they do [00:12:52] eh, but the truth is, [00:12:56] it's not the job of journalists, nor of television channels, nor of [00:12:59] TV, eh, to guarantee [00:13:02] them that they have a penny in their [00:13:05] wallet for tomorrow to be able to have breakfast, nor that [00:13:09] Roña with his generosity and his foundation provides them with medicines so [00:13:13] that they can look for them, I mean, the truth is that it makes me [00:13:16] happy on the one hand to be able to do it, where are the guys from, they are [00:13:20] from San Martín, Joseon Suárez, oh no, because I have, [00:13:24] they can come get me. I'll deposit it, I help [00:13:26] a lot of people, if all people go to the [00:13:30] deposit, I give to [00:13:33] soup kitchens and dining halls that need it [00:13:36] so nothing, there is merchandise, now a new [00:13:38] truck is coming, I thank Abel [00:13:42] Pinto because he sent me a truck with 2 kg of [00:13:45] merchandise without being asked, he told me I'm going to [00:13:48] help you and he helped me, not only with those who are on the [00:13:52] channel who tell you, hey, I'm going to help you, Roña, and then they don't show up, [00:14:04] they promised me the cooks and they never appeared, I told them they would make [00:14:07] contributions to the Locomotora foundation, they never [00:14:10] did, nothing happens, I don't need any of [00:14:13] that because thanks to the factory that gives me [00:14:16] merchandise, the government of the province of Buenos Aires that contributes [00:14:20] eh there are many whips that also don't give for the [00:14:23] soup kitchens, you see, I get angry when [00:14:27] that red light is on, they promise you the moon and the stars and then [00:14:31] you see, they leave you stranded, so you see, and it's not that they leave [00:14:35] you stranded, there are people behind, not me because I have [00:14:38] food, I don't need anything, what these [00:14:41] people need is that, [00:14:44] that's the ugly part, I tell you again, I see [00:14:48] it every day, Monday to Monday I see these people, it makes me [00:14:52] angry, people come and say Roña, I have some but it's not enough, I [00:14:55] can't make ends meet, I can't make ends meet, I can't make ends meet, that happens more and more, I don't have [00:14:59] work but it's not enough, they have work but it's not enough, it can't be that a pensioner is [00:15:02] earning 48000 pesos and the [00:15:05] medicine costs 200 pesos, when they buy the medicines, their [00:15:09] pension salary is gone, they know because they have a pensioner [00:15:12] father, we usually invite Luis, a [00:15:15] pensioner who marches on Wednesdays and Luis has [00:15:18] to sell socks, he goes out and buys, [00:15:21] he gets the minimum 400 and something and goes out to sell socks. [00:15:25] And he goes to the march on Wednesdays and fights for others, well that's how Argentina is, [00:15:28] eh nothing, Locomotora Foundation to [00:15:32] help, the MP3 [00:15:36] Foundation, that point to help Juana and [00:15:40] Silvio, Juana and Silvio, María Juan you will be the bridge eh [00:15:44] between our production, Roña and Juan and Silvio so that [00:15:47] those medicines can arrive and maybe Roña can also give them some [00:15:51] merchandise, not a bag so that at least they [00:15:55] start to have a connection with Roña and [00:15:59] and of course, what happens is that for me, the truth is, Roña, you are a very [00:16:02] generous person, the truth is that you work so much with the soup kitchens and the [00:16:05] dining halls, but the truth is. For me, I mean, you are not human [00:16:09] capital, there would be people who should take care of it, Sandra Petovello is her [00:16:12] name, who should take care of it, it happened to me when I had, remember [00:16:16] when I had all the pasta all piled up, that was not [00:16:20] her, it was from the previous government [00:16:22] and well, the rats are eating it, so you see, [00:16:25] I prefer, I would have preferred to give it to the people and he says I don't know where it [00:16:29] went because he never gave me anything from the soup kitchens because he says they are [00:16:33] ghost soup kitchens and here there are no ghost soup kitchens, how many soup kitchens do you have, [00:16:36] Roña? 14 and 9 [00:16:38] dining halls, [00:16:41] Locomotora.point Foundation to help Roña, Juana [00:16:44] mp 13 points to help [00:17:33] that we watch the Crónica program every day and and [00:17:37] that... people have work to survive and not end up [00:18:00] Silvio, you're not the only one, I want to tell you, half of Argentina is [00:18:03] affected, half of Argentina is affected, you're not a unique case. [00:18:09] Eh, nobody is going to believe that you are the only one, nor that it's your fault, nor that you [00:18:13] didn't do enough, it's not like that, half of [00:18:16] Argentina is affected, and it's not because they are lazy, don't want to [00:18:20] work, did things wrong, don't know financial education, don't know how to [00:18:39] telling us your story, for helping us understand reality beyond [00:18:43] Excel, beyond what officials say, it's very [00:18:46] important for us every weekend [00:18:50] to tell these stories in first [00:18:53] person, to get out of Excel, to get out of the [00:18:56] numbers, to tell the reality that is lived in at least [00:19:00] half or a little more than half of [00:19:37] hopeful, [00:19:41] who are confident, who are making an effort, because there are many people who are [00:19:45] making an effort and don't see that things are clearing up, you said [00:19:48] hey, fixing this mess is not easy, it will take a long [00:19:51] time, eh, how much more patience do you [00:19:55] think they have to have or can be asked for, it depends [00:19:59] on many factors, obviously a person who is going through a critical situation cannot [00:20:17] What I tell people is that we should focus on how to solve this [00:20:21] problem because if we focus [00:20:24] all the time on the problem itself and never on how to [00:20:27] solve it, it will continue to happen that there are pensioners who are [00:20:30] badly off, that there are poor children and the opposition or the [00:20:34] rest of the political spectrum does not offer an alternative on how to [00:20:38] solve this in the medium to long term, in a sustainable [00:20:41] way, for me the solution is clear, I mean it's about betting [00:20:44] on improving production, on having investments, on generating formal [00:20:48] jobs to normalize the country, I mean, if the country risk drops, it means more [00:20:52] companies are established, by not attacking entrepreneurs, attracting [00:20:56] entrepreneurs to come and establish themselves here, whether it's Mercado Libre or [00:20:59] another company, whether it's Amazon, whether it's Global, whatever company you want, but we have to [00:21:02] attract these people and not [00:21:06] charge them more taxes so that the money is then used by a [00:21:08] politician, that is my conclusion, I believe that [00:21:12] they should focus on the problem and the government has it clear and I don't see that the rest of the [00:21:16] politicians have a clear solution and that's why they are not presenting [00:21:33] buy a stove for a soup kitchen, we try to get [00:21:37] a wheelchair, they gave us one, we donated one to [00:21:41] a person, nothing, we want to be able to if [00:21:44] we buy the stove for the soup kitchen, eh, [00:21:47] pucherito, that's good, eh, to be able to continue [00:21:51] helping because people really need it, especially [00:21:54] people from humble neighborhoods, I don't like to say from shantytowns [00:21:58] but eh I say humble neighborhoods that are the ones who need [00:22:01] it most, where there are many little children in staircases, you see, [00:22:04] so nothing, how awful that a woman with five [00:22:08] four children comes to my gym and asks and I can't say no, [00:22:11] you know what, I didn't ask you and I don't want to forget at least to [00:22:15] mention how you see the issue of debt in the neighborhoods, people [00:22:19] are very [00:22:50] and every, it can't be that a kilo of meat costs [00:22:53] 25, eh, what a person [00:22:57] earns per day, a kilo of meat, so that's the [00:23:00] worst, there are people from the neighborhood who haven't eaten meat for a long time, the [00:23:04] butcher, our neighbor says [00:23:06] eh people used to buy by the kilo, now by 100 g or 200 [00:23:10] g, to make a little sauce and [00:23:14] that's the hard part, that people are having a very [00:23:18] very hard time. [00:23:36] with a number of soup kitchens and snack bars that solve a little bit of the day [00:23:40] for a lot of people who otherwise would [00:23:44] not have that plate of food and [00:23:47] would be having a much worse time than they are [00:24:05] first thing, long live Argentine [00:24:08] labor, [00:24:11] as an Argentine, a lot was lost and [00:24:15] and I would like to put together a crew [00:24:19] to teach my friends' children [00:24:22] through the church that we pray in [00:24:27] each one can take their child off [00:24:31] that in these times it may be better to live [00:24:34] better, [00:25:40] go back to work. [00:25:43] No, there we are, we were there at least to give him this little hand, which we know is not [00:25:47] definitive, it's just a start. [00:26:27] proud of what we are doing, [00:26:30] there it is, [00:26:33] closing this story that [00:26:36] of course today has a more or less dignified [00:26:40] ending, but tomorrow it will be a problem again and the camera will not [00:26:44] be there, that's why public policies are needed to solve this type of [00:26:45] issue, [00:26:49] attention. [00:27:03] The case of Mari Carmen, [00:27:07] you know, housing [00:27:11] crisis, [00:27:16] goes in parallel, only Argentina, Spain, no, I think the rest of the world, but there is a parallel between [00:27:20] Argentina and [00:27:20] Spain, [00:27:28] the case of Mari Carmen, in Spain it is [00:27:31] shaking the political framework, so much so [00:27:34] that the head of government, Pedro Sánchez, sent decrees to [00:27:38] freeze rent for a certain time to avoid [00:27:42] evictions, as they call them, expulsions, because Mari [00:27:45] Carmen lived 70 years in that home and the [00:27:49] "vulture SMEs" appeared, as they are called, which are [00:27:52] ventures that go and buy a lot of [00:27:55] homes to make business with them. Well, the [00:27:58] president sent two decrees and Congress overturned them, so they brought forward elections with [00:28:02] general elections to see definitively what will happen and one [00:28:05] says Mari Carmen, she is very far from the Republic of [00:28:09] Argentina. There is a report that came out Agustín this week that shows the [00:28:12] growth of retirees, that is, [00:28:15] Argentine Maricarmens who are renting, they are with the noose around [00:28:18] their necks. To talk about this, Matías Araujo from the urban fabric [00:28:22] of an organization that is in charge [00:28:25] of measuring all these types of problems that exist not only in Argentina [00:28:36] housing issue? You know why I'm interested? Because I think the [00:28:39] housing issue, as happened in Berlin, uh, [00:28:43] as happens in Spain, will [00:28:45] end up uh, by defining some electoral issues [00:28:49] in Argentina if someone takes it seriously, if someone takes [00:28:53] it seriously, what are you seeing? Well, when [00:28:56] you were trying to see the parallels between Spain and Argentina, what we see in [00:29:00] Spain is basically a scenario. In Argentina, we can [00:29:04] see it in the future, that is, it is a matter that may happen. What have [00:29:07] we detected in the last two censuses? Basically a doubling of the [00:29:11] number of retired tenants, which means [00:29:15] that during the last 20 years a large part of the population between 45 and [00:29:18] 60 years old could not access housing and therefore reached old age [00:29:22] renting, and what does renting mean, obviously with a [00:29:25] pension today, how to face it. And on the other hand, we really like [00:29:29] to analyze the two extremes basically. On the one hand, you [00:29:32] have retired tenants who today doubled and eight out of [00:29:36] 10 retired tenants are vulnerable, and on the other hand, we see [00:29:39] what happens at the other extreme of the housing [00:29:42] trajectory, let's say, which are young people, four out of 10 cannot [00:29:46] leave their parents' house, four out of 10, four out of 10 cannot leave [00:29:50] their parents' house, this is fundamental to understand why [00:29:53] it impacts Argentina because it tries to achieve [00:29:56] to see how it has evolved and how our legs have been [00:29:59] cut off basically in recent years in that sense, [00:30:03] we say, if today we are aiming to [00:30:07] understand what is happening to people between 45 and 60 years old who today do not access [00:30:10] property and property being what guarantees in Argentina [00:30:14] certain stability for the future, what will happen [00:30:17] when in the next census this is double [00:30:20] the retirees again, let's go from 4,000 to 8,000. Now the [00:30:24] question, one of the questions about this [00:30:26] diagnosis, I mean, where do we start to solve [00:30:30] the problem because [00:30:32] it's not that Argentina hasn't tried in recent years, it has tried and it has [00:30:36] gone wrong, it has tried with inefficient tools, [00:30:39] that rental law with rampant [00:30:42] inflation ended up not being efficient for people to be able to [00:30:46] rent and for those who had a little money to be able to [00:30:49] buy, the attempts, the attempts at [00:30:52] mortgage credit projects in Argentina in recent years were neither massive nor [00:30:56] good. Those that were good were not.