“In search of an enemy”: from the countryside they say that the government is trying to divert attention

The Permanent Quarters Movement plans to organize a protest against agricultural producers next Saturday morning, when the opening ceremony of the 134th International Livestock, Agriculture and Industry Exhibition in the structures of the Azienda Rurale di Palermo. Until then, its militants will mobilize to claim the sector they hold responsible for the lack of dollars to sell their crop, in the middle of the main ceremony of the exhibition to which the President of the Nation, Alberto Fernández is invited, although he has not yet confirmed their participation.

“There are concentrated economic sectors that groped to move forward in a process of political destabilization“and” are just trying to raise a huge amount of dollars force the national government to devalue”, He expressed this Monday Daniel Menéndez, leader of the Somos Barrios de Pie organization. For this he believed that popular movements should “strengthen the ranks in the process of strengthening the Government and the Front of All”.

The protest is part of a week of attacks on agricultural producers initiated by the president himself, who called them “speculators” for not selling their soybean production and affirming it “They keep 20,000 million dollars and don’t liquidate them when the country needs it”.

After his remarks, several government supporters joined the assault, including the national senator Juliana di Tullio who published a video of a large number of silobags in the municipality of Lezama as proof of the “withholding” and “speculation” some farmers. The images did not correspond to a producer but to an oil plant that in this way preserves the sunflower seeds necessary for its industrialization, and although the blooper could make people laugh, it reveals the lack of knowledge of logistics and the necessary financing of agricultural production, advances against the right to private property and fuels the anger of a sector of citizenship towards rural producers.

They came out of the farm to respond to Fernández’s attacks but did not want to allude to the march that is scheduled for the day of the opening ceremony of the Rural Exposition. “It’s a wrong and offensive concept,” said Nicolás Pino, president of the Argentine Rural Society (SRA). “The usual for this time of year is being marketed, since July 13 64% of the campaign has been sold, the movement is completely normal“, he detailed to debunk the arguments on the conservation of wheat.” There is no need to disrespect and mistreat the most competitive sector, which works and invests more and really makes a very important contribution “, remarked Pino.”The Executive and the Ministry of Economy are responsible for the situation in which we find ourselves“, He added. And he assured that” the government is trying to compare campaigns with society and it is totally reckless“.

Faced with the “barbarism” expressed by the representatives of the ruling party and the President of the Nation, “the feeling is that we are trying to make controversial statements about allegedly unconstitutional plans for measures with the sole interest of look for an enemy and generate a controversy that allows it to blur the terrible crisis that overwhelms us and for which they are responsible“, he has declared Carlos Achetoni, president of the Argentine Agricultural Federation (FAA).

“It is sad that the president continues to look inward as we families juggle to stand up, not to mention those who have already fallen directly into misery or destitution, not knowing if they will be able to get out. As the middle class disappears, they continue to play on the deck of the Titanic, throwing loud and crazy sentences, without responding to what matters to us all, “Achetoni said.

For the leader, the concern is no longer just “responding to the barbarism of wanting to go against private property, but thinking about where they are taking us as a country”.

While, Argentine Rural Confederations (CRA) he repudiated Fernández’s statements, pointing to it “producers do not hold soy or cereals” instead, “they simply distribute their sales over the months to finance their expenses throughout the year.” In addition, the entity was instructed to remember him liquidated a record crop of wheat and virtually the entire maize crop. “In addition, 20,000 million dollars were not withheldthere would be no way because they are not the total income of producers in a calendar year, “they clarified from the CRA.

Amidst the bans and attacks on the agro-industrial sector, some government officials were present at the Rural Exposition this Monday, including the president of Banco Ciudad, Guillermo Laje, the director of the institution, Delfina Rossi and the Minister of Agriculture of the Country, Julián Domínguez will attend the traditional CITA award ceremony for agricultural technological innovation tonight. However, the President of the Nation did not respond to the invitation.