The bishops in Argentina, are again asking for real solutions from the government to tackle the economic crisis as the yearly inflation rate hit well above 50 percent.
The bishops released a statement that said the feast is a call for a dignified life that includes the right for people to live from “the fruit of their work”, ahead of the feast of St. Cajetan, the patron of bread and work on 7 August.
“The bread that is requested for all, that which is achieved with their own work, is a clamor for justice,” they wrote.
The bishops pointed out that “to ask for work is to ask that all workers have the right to live with dignity from the fruit of their daily efforts and to deploy their potential and talents to contribute to the growth of our country.”
Last week, President Alberto Fernández named Lower House Speaker Sergio Massa to the head of a new, expanded ministry for the economy after the country plunged deeper into a political crisis in July.
The ministry will now also oversee agriculture and production as well as the country’s relationship with the International Monetary Fund and all other foreign creditors.
Massa takes over from Silvina Batakis, who only got the job on 4 July , after the abrupt resignation of Martin Guzman.
Argentina has a poverty rate of 43.8 percent – 18 million people – and one in ten citizens experiences hunger on a daily basis.
“How can we not think of the growing number of brothers and sisters who daily come to the soup kitchens, of the elderly who cannot buy their medicines, of the families whose incomes are increasingly insignificant?” the bishops said in their statement.