Anti-globalisation activists, environmentalists and feminists agree that the G20 is superfluous. On Friday, demonstrates in Buenos Aires. The police will, where appropriate, take tough action. Bernd Riegert reports.
Behind the fence, the protesters gather. Kilometers long, the barricades through the city centre
Federico Moreno is mad, really mad at the neo-liberal government of Argentina. Federico Moreno organized for the party of “Socialist workers movement” (MST), the protests against the G20-summit in front of the Parliament in Buenos Aires. The Argentine security Minister Patricia Bullrich has recommended the three million residents to leave the city for a long weekend, and the first Gipfeltrag short-hand to be declared a public holiday. “If the workers go on strike for a day, then you are declared the national tragedy”, was upset by Federico Moreno, “but if Trump and co. to come to seal off the whole city. This is unfair and shows that Argentina has ceded its sovereignty to the G20.”
Federico Moreno: The G20 is an Instrument for the suppression of
Large contingent of police
25,000 to 30,000 police officers and soldiers secure according to the government, the summit terrain and the Hotels of the 20 delegations, rules of traffic or to keep the protesters at Bay. Foreign intelligence services the state of their own heads secure. A US aircraft carrier crosses in front of the coast. The delegations are partially huge. Ten aircraft took the US government to bring Material, personnel, and on Thursday evening, President Donald Trump to Argentina. The Saudi crown Prince has at least 400 people to accompany him in six aircraft.
Loud and a bit of Folklore: the protest band of students in front of the Parliament in Buenos Aires
In the capital of Argentina, no subways and no buses to drive this Friday. Also the S-Bahn to the surrounding countryside, with its 12 million inhabitants are stopped. Flights are diverted, the shops should close. “The G20 only came to Argentina, to show how they oppressed the poor with austerity measures,” says activist Moreno. Argentina suffers from a severe economic crisis and is reliant on emergency loans from the International monetary Fund connected with Reform requirements. Around 200 million Euro cost of the summit of the 19 most important industrial and emerging countries and the EU, according to estimates. “With the money you would have been able to make more meaningful things,” says Federico Moreno.
The “Baby Trump” is inflated behind high bars. The police officers are left
Mass protest on the first summit day planned
Dozens of protest groups from Latin America have joined in the protest camp in Buenos Aires. You can call on Saturday afternoon to a large-scale demonstration. After some initial wrangling the city Council has released the Demontrationsweg on the magnificent streets of the city center, which should actually be locked. Federio Moreno from the left of the labour party hopes that everything remains peaceful, unlike the last G20 summit in Hamburg, 2017. At that time, the police fought battles with looters and marauders. If there should be violence, then the from of foreigners, or football hooligans, says activist Moreno. The chief of police of Buenos Aires has announced that with all his hardness against violence. It’s a Zero-tolerance policy prevails.
A small “Delegation” from Hamburg to greet the summit. There were 2017 violent riots
Hamburg is also represented
On the edge of the protest camp next to a giant inflatable figure of Donald Trump, a group from Germany has set up a few folding chairs, and posters on a fence bound. “Greetings from Hamburg!” is read and “Block G20!” Around 15 Hamburger from the left protest scene came to Buenos Aires to support the local activists. With violence, you have nothing at the hat. You are simply “a Delegation from St. Pauli”, explains a young man sitting in front of the posters.
A Selfie of one of the protesters to the left of the labour party
The actual venue and a theatre, where on Saturday a state Banquet, are double and triple backed up. The summit participants use a specially cordoned-off city airport. Of Buenos Aires, the protests or normal Portenos, as the residents of the city name, will get the G20 to see the leader of little.