The Government thinks that he had infiltrated between the piqueteros

It was the conclusion of the cabinet meeting

The Chief of State received information and evaluated the episodes with his collaborators Alvarez spoke, for the first time, in official form nine hours after the events

The Government met afternoon during everything of yesterday in the residence of Olive trees and, according to all the successfully obtained information, he reached the conclusion that the disturbances that finished with two dead ones and several wounded in Avellaneda was work of elements infiltrated in the protest of piqueteros.

According to high sources of the Pink House, the tracks firmer than investigate the security organisms and intelligence ends at the piqueteras groupings Current Aníbal Verón and Movimiento Teresa Rodriguez.

"Those were the organizations who took more people to the protest", she assured a high source the government of Buenos Aires. Indeed, Eduardo Duhalde and Felipe Solá were in contact with the enemy by telephone to articulate a unified speech.

On the night, the secretary of Buenosairean Security, Luis Genoud, was summoned Olive trees to complete the message of both governments.

The secretary of Inner Security, Juan Jose Alvarez, was the one in charge by Duhalde to give the first official word of the Government. He went to 21,20, more than nine hours after happened the incidents.

"we did not want that it happened the great Mathov (by Enrique, ex- secretary of Security of Fernando of the Rúa) that the 20 of December at noon said that he was all calm one and the day finished with tens of deads", trusted to the NATION a high source of the Department of the Interior, when explaining the governmental caution.

"What happened today it calls the attention to us because it did not have between the piqueteros with whom to initiate the dialogue since always he did the Government and the results were not those of the last months. We changed or those that declared were others ", it maintained to Alvarez when giving account of the facts.

"I do not say that the violent ones were all, only some", indicated the civil employee. "Without a doubt that is others, they took to the covered faces and woods that cannot be gathered to nine hundred meters of the Pueyrredón bridge. Had cases, like that it denounced a colectivero, of men that took to pumps molotov, guns and arms, that is not part of which habitually they declare ", added.

Although it did not say, the governmental sources to it that they participated in the meeting that Duhalde maintained with its cabinet - except the minister of Economy, Roberto Lavagna, who is in Washington indicated by it under that the Government strongly suspects that they exist infiltrated which they had intention to organize a confrontation to create a chaos climate.

"There was an organization, a decided group to cause the chaos, the violence and the death", affirmed a close friend to the head of Cabinet, Alfredo Atanasof.

This was the central conclusion at which Duhalde and its men arrived, who were reflected in a phrase pronounced by Alvarez before the journalists: "the one has not been the Government that it summoned to do 19 and 20 of December, as they were listened to in some sectors", said the civil employee.

"Made very serious"

"the Government is not behind because today we have undergone it", Alvarez said. And he reinforced his concepts with a sharp affirmation: "There was between the demonstrators a provocation attitude that lamentably occurred".

Luis Genoud, who accompanied to Alvarez before the press, said that the prisoners (about 150), had been released.

The decision of the duhaldista equipment, as Alvarez said, was to describe the death as the two people like the "very serious fact that the Government will be in charge to investigate until the last consequences". Alvarez was forceful at the time of indicating that the police did not act with lead bullets and that "it had antiriot equipment", that does not contemplate those ammunition.

On unemployment of today, summoned by the CTA, he said that the Government respects the freedom to pronounce itself, but summoned the politicians to have prudence. Before versions of possible sackings, he admitted that the aim of the authorities is to avoid "a scaling of violence".

By Mariano Obarrio
Of the Writing of the NATION

Explanations

"There were cases, like which it denounced a colectivero, of men who took to pumps molotov, guns and arms, that are not part of which habitually they are pronounced."
Juan Jose Alvarez