You heard it on No Te Duermas
On the radio program, we spoke with Agustín Cardozo, candidate for Ombudsman, who talked about his career and his goals for La Matanza.
Tomás Modini
@ModiniTomas
At the beginning of the note on No te Duermas, Agustín Cardozo said: “I am 24 years old. I am a history teacher. I work all around La Matanza, especially in the kilometers like Isidro Casanova and González Catán.”
“We work many hours to have a respectable salary and not only for those of us who are just starting out, but for those who have been in this for many years as well. It is a constant search for hours, to try to be there to be able to alleviate a little the issue of expenses and basic services,” he said.
Regarding his candidacy, he said that “we talked with Micaela Durigan about my proposal and we were able to start good conversations and thus reach a good conclusion” and that “I really have very nice expectations about what the Ombudsman is.”
The proposals for the administration
Regarding what he intends in the role of Ombudsman, he said: “We want to develop a comprehensive action plan for the defense of the human rights of the citizens of La Matanza. For everyone, we do not want to include just one group, we know that we have a hard work ahead that needs to be done.”
“We want to include young people, that is why my plan also has a program called ‘Young Hands’ in mind to focus on youth volunteering and to be able, starting from putting citizen participation at the service of what the Ombudsman is, to give them training and courses so that they have tools,” he added.
He also stressed that “I believe that we young people today are creating a new way of seeing the world and La Matanza is being part of that” and that “we have to celebrate it, many times we were dismissed and today we have a participation that is beautiful and worth celebrating and the idea is to be able to continue in that.”
“See the foundations, everything that was built and from that move forward. I think we deserve a beautiful future and we have many foundations, there are many workers from La Matanza who fight day by day to get ahead. We have to start seeing them, all the potential we have and continue building,” he added.
His work with the community
On another subject, the interviewee said: “I am not an activist. I am a teacher, I do all kinds of activities related to the church, which is also what I do because I have a music band there. I always emphasized social work, that is why I know the needs. During the pandemic I worked with many people, getting close to them.”
“And not only in religious matters, it is about trying to get closer to citizens in their needs, listening to them and contributing that grain of sand. That is why since I was a child I learned that the need of others is a need of mine too. To know that if we do not cultivate, if we do not sow good things, that will affect us. The idea was always to sow new seeds,” he mentioned.
In closing, he recalled that “in the pandemic we were able to help many people, donate to soup kitchens, be with those who needed it most. I personally heard many strong things that one was not aware of sometimes” and that “I had to see people who cried for a family member, for their children.”
“It is very strong to see a mother crying for her child and sometimes one has few tools to accompany that. That is why we want a comprehensive action plan to accompany and be on the side of the people, so that they feel cared for and protected,” he concluded.
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