“We demand that the Government immediately apply the supply law,” the organizations claim, calling for the implementation of a rule with which the Executive could regulate the price of food in the gondolas.
In addition, they request the “removal of 21% VAT from all foods in the basic food basket” and the increase in the minimum vital and mobile wage “above inflation.”
“Twenty businessmen hold hostage the food of all Argentines. Lower food prices!” organizers said in a statement.
Yesterday morning, protesters began to gather at the collector of the Pan-American Highway and Route 197, in front of the facilities of Arcor, one of the most important food companies in the country.
“The great example is Arcor, whose owner is Luis Pagani, which increased 20% in 24 hours on all products”, argue the social organizations when mentioning a group of food companies.
The request of the protest is to “demand sanctions” for “speculators and price makers” and the implementation of “progressive taxes” on companies and banks with “usurious profits.”
“They are the main businessmen who increase their wealth, based on the inflationary theft of food”pointed out the organizers of the protest, who also recalled that the owner of the company La Anónima, Federico Braunsaid that “remarks prices every day”.
And they added that “they committed all possible atrocities: food shortages and price increases, further devaluing the subsistence capacity of millions of people.”
The FOL delegate Marianela Navarro emphasized that “the slogan of this day is to lower prices because twenty companies cannot hold 45 million Argentines hostage.”
“We are in Córdoba in front of the Bagley plant, in Mar del Plata in front of the Molinos Río de la Plata plant, in San Juan in front of La Serenísima, in Rosario in front of the Stock Exchange and protests are also taking place in Misiones. , Jujuy, Neuquén, Río Negro and Mendoza”listed.
In addition, he confirmed that tomorrow they will concentrate on De Mayo and 9 de Julio avenues, in downtown Buenos Aires, “against the criminalization of social protest”, within the framework of the march announced by Unidad Piquetera that will converge in Plaza de Mayo. .
“In August we are going to continue with these demonstrations, fundamentally in front of the Salary Council, to defend our income in this difficult situation that we are experiencing in the country,” anticipated the FOL representative.
Source: Ambito
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