01/13/2021 2:52 PM
Clarín.com
Rural
Updated 01/13/2021 2:52 PM
Shortly after the government backed down with the closure of corn exports amid protests and the cessation of commercialization by producers, the Mesa de Enlace affirmed that "
the objective of the strike has been achieved
.
"
"The strike has been accomplished and our objective has been met," said the president of the Argentine Rural Society (SRA), Daniel Pelegrina.
The representatives of the main agrarian entities decided to end the force measure after the Government gave way with the closure of exports.
For Pelegrina, this step backwards was achieved "
thanks to the pressure we put on the media and that the producers did not sell
."
"
The error has been demonstrated
, it has been lifted and that is why from now on we have to lift the commercial cease and now to seek the maximum possible dialogue," insisted the rural leader.
Producers camped out on the road in Rosario during the rural protest against the Government.
Photo: Juan José García.
Pelegrina, on behalf of the Liaison Board, announced that they will ask Alberto Fernández to speak: "We are going to ask the President of the Nation to consult us when they are going to take a measure of this nature," he remarked.
And he closed: "We want to talk to the president, he understands in some way and the negative effect that is generated abroad. If they want to increase exports to generate foreign exchange, they
have to have us as allies, not enemies
."
In the last few hours and after lifting the stocks on corn exports, the Minister of Agriculture, Luis Basterra, took aim at the agrarian leadership by arguing that "
there was manifest violence
."
"There have been acts of manifest violence, chases of pickup trucks, of making the trucks stop without any kind of authority, of opening nozzles where the cereal is unloaded ... It is an area that the Justice will have to solve, but Argentina is not up for this type of measure, "said the minister in dialogue with Radio 10.
And he added: "The Argentina of the violent is not the Argentina that will allow us to get out of a situation as difficult as it is to face a pandemic."
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