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In Argentina, groups keep lid on simmering social conflict

A national flag hangs from the roof of the Shinai soup kitchen run by the Movimiento Evita social organization as a child eats cotton candy, during Independence Day celebrations, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. “Three of every 10 homes in the country are beneficiaries of some kind of welfare program,” said Eduardo Donza, researcher at the Social Debt Observatory of the Argentine Catholic University. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) Romina Villamil, 30, a member of the Frente de Organizaciones en Lucha, FOL, social organization, smiles while she waits for bread to bake in a clay oven, in the impoverished "El Peligro" neighborhood, south of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, May 20, 2022. Social organizations such as the FOL do not simply provide food, they also have strong ties to political leaders which facilitates receiving subsidies and access to work programs. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) A national flag hangs from the roof of the Shinai soup kitchen run by the Movimiento Evita social organization as a child eats cotton candy, during Independence Day celebrations, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. “Three of every 10 homes in the country are beneficiaries of some kind of welfare program,” said Eduardo Donza, researcher at the Social Debt Observatory of the Argentine Catholic University. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) People walk past the Cathedral during a march to Plaza de Mayo organized by social organizations demanding more jobs and higher wages, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, May 12, 2022. Such organizations have long been present in Argentina but they grew and became more powerful at the end of 2001, when the country suffered the worst economic collapse in its history that plunged half the population into poverty. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) Members of the Movimiento de Trabajadores Excluidos social organization, pack recyclables inside the municipal dump in Santa Rosa, La Pampa province, Argentina, Friday, May 27, 2022. Such organizations have long been present in Argentina but they grew and became more powerful at the end of 2001, when the country suffered the worst economic collapse in its history that plunged half the population into poverty. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) Sandra Ceballos, a member of the Movimiento Evita social organization, uses a hammer and chisel to break apart concrete during a home renovation in the Puerta de Hierro neighborhood, in La Matanza district of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, May 11, 2022. Social organizations do not simply provide food, they also have strong ties to political leaders which facilitates receiving subsidies and access to work programs. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) Members of the Frente Popular Dario Santillan social organization attend a gender workshop in the poverty-stricken Carmen de Alvear neighborhood, in the Tigre district, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, May 23, 2022. Social organizations and assistance programs keep a lid on simmering social unrest in Argentina. Without them, “everything would blow up,” said Jorge Cabral, a member of the Frente Popular Darío Santillan.  (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) Members of the Frente Popular Dario Santillan social organization cut pieces of pork to prepare a bread with fried pork rinds to raise money in the patio of the Little Lions soup kitchen, in the Carmen de Alvear neighborhood, in the Tigre district, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, May 23, 2022. A portion of the bread is given to poverty stricken families in the community. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) Residents walk to the "Los chicos de la via" soup kitchen, run by the Movimiento de Trabajadores Excluidos social organization, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022. Without the aid of soup kitchens, some would not have enough food to survive at a time of 58% annual inflation, which economists say could grow to 70 percent, or higher, by the end of the year. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) A battered advertisement banner hangs from the side of a shack that is located next to the "Niñez, Esperanza y Vida" soup kitchen run by the Movimiento Evita social organization, in Gonzales Catan, Argentina, Wednesday, March 9 2022. The South American country has one of the world's highest inflation rates with 37% of its population mired in poverty.  (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) Demonstrators walk past a monument of former President Julio Roca during a march to the Plaza de Mayo organized by social organizations demanding more jobs and higher wages, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, May 12, 2022. Such organizations have long been present in Argentina but they grew and became more powerful at the end of 2001, when the country suffered the worst economic collapse in its history that plunged half the population into poverty. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) Romina Villamil, 30, a member of the Frente de Organizaciones en Lucha, FOL, social organization, smiles while she waits for bread to bake in a clay oven, in the impoverished "El Peligro" neighborhood, south of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, May 20, 2022. Social organizations such as the FOL do not simply provide food, they also have strong ties to political leaders which facilitates receiving subsidies and access to work programs. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) Members of the Frente de Organizaciones en Lucha, FOL, social organization, play a pickup soccer game during a work break in the impoverished "El Peligro" neighborhood, south of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, May 20, 2022. Social organizations such as the FOL do not simply provide food, they also have strong ties to political leaders which facilitates receiving subsidies and access to work programs. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) A man carries a bundle of wood through the the impoverished "El Peligro" neighborhood, south of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, May 20, 2022. "Three of every 10 homes in the country are beneficiaries of some kind of welfare program," said Eduardo Donza, researcher at the Social Debt Observatory of the Argentine Catholic University. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) Childcare workers watch over children while their parents work in a community garden run by the Frente de Organizaciones en Lucha, FOL, social organization, in the "El Peligro" neighborhood, south of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, May 20, 2022. The social organization runs a soup kitchen along with a daycare center, vegetable garden, library and a study center for high school students in the impoverished neighborhood. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) Vegetables grown in a garden run by the Frente de Organizaciones en Lucha, FOL, social organization, are delivered to their soup kitchen in the "El Peligro" neighborhood, south of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, May 20, 2022. The social organization runs a soup kitchen along with a daycare center, vegetable garden, library and a study center for high school students in the impoverished neighborhood. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) A dog waits to be fed table scraps in the doorway of a soup kitchen run by the Frente de Organizaciones en Lucha, FOL, social organization, as free lunches cool down before they are delivered to poverty stricken families in the "El Peligro" neighborhood, south of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, May 20, 2022. Millions of Argentines survive largely thanks to soup kitchens and state welfare programs. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) A member of the Frente de Organizaciones en Lucha, FOL, social organization, peels potatoes while preparing lunch in their soup kitchen in the "El Peligro" neighborhood, south of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, May 20, 2022. The FOL runs the soup kitchen along with a daycare center, vegetable garden, library and a study center for high school students in the impoverished neighborhood. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) A childcare worker and her charge walk past a building housing a study center run by the Frente de Organizaciones en Lucha, FOL, social organization in the "El Peligro" neighborhood, south of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, May 20, 2022. The social organization runs a soup kitchen along with a daycare center, vegetable garden, library and a study center for high school students in the impoverished neighborhood. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) A member of the Frente de Organizaciones en Lucha, FOL, carries a tray of cookies prepared for poverty stricken families in the "El Peligro" neighborhood, south of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, May 20, 2022. The FOL runs a soup kitchen along with a daycare center, vegetable garden, library and a study center for high school students in the impoverished neighborhood. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) People walk towards the Plaza de Mayo in a march organized by social organizations representing the unemployed to protest against the government's economic policy, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, May 12, 2022. Social organizations in Argentina are helping the neediest survive day-to-day and prevent explosive social conflict. But they also pose a threat to the government because of their ability to organize massive protests for more assistance, and other demands. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) A member of the Movimiento Evita social organization stirs a cauldron of pasta at a soup kitchen that feeds their workers and residents in the Puerta de Hierro neighborhood in La Matanza district of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, May 11, 2022. Social organizations in Argentina do not simply provide food, they also have strong ties to political leaders which facilitates receiving subsidies and access to work programs. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) Bahiano Arevalo, 7, receives a bag of free food from the Little Lions soup kitchen in the poverty-stricken Carmen de Alvear neighborhood in the Tigre district, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, May 23, 2022. Social organizations and assistance programs keep a lid on simmering social unrest in Argentina. Without them, "everything would blow up," said Jorge Cabral, a member of the Frente Popular Dario Santillán, which opened the Little Lions soup kitchen. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) Andrea Calisti holds a pan of donated sweet bread as her 7-year-old son Nathanael reaches for a piece, delivered by members of the Movimiento de Trabajadores Excluidos social organization, in the 17 de Octubre neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022. Critics of these organizations and assistance programs say they are a tool used by political leaders to assure votes come election time. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) Residents stand in a doorway waiting to receive food at "Los chicos de la via" soup kitchen run by the Movimiento de Trabajadores Excluidos social organization, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022. Almost a third of Argentine households are estimated to receive some kind of social assistance. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) Backdropped by a national flag and surrounded by her children, Celeste Vergara, 29, holds containers of a hominy stew known as Locro, a traditional Independence Day dish that she picked up at the Shinai soup kitchen run by the Movimiento Evita social organization, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. Vergara is one of millions of Argentines who survive largely thanks to soup kitchens and state welfare programs, many of which are funneled through politically powerful social movements linked to the ruling party. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)