Overview
- City inspectors at Costanera Sur confiscated the young seller’s alfajores on Monday for lacking permits and food-safety checks required for public food sales.
- A bystander’s video spread widely on X, prompting broad discussion and online efforts to locate the vendor for donations.
- Buenos Aires Chief Jorge Macri defended the operation as enforcing the law and said Human Development officials offered technical guidance and a spot at a city fair.
- Speaking Friday, the vendor identified himself as David Querol and said officials only mentioned a food-handling course and did not follow through on a scheduled meeting.
- Querol, who works a full-time security shift to support his retired mother, says inspectors took 35 alfajores and 15 small cakes, showing how clampdowns hit informal workers’ income.