At 85 years old, he died Luciano Miguens, former president of the Argentine Rural Society (SRA) and one of the leaders of the Liaison Table in 2008.
That remembered year was when the field confronted the former president Cristina Kirchner for its mobile withholding project that unleashed four months of intense conflict.
Miguens, a renowned breeder of Criollo horses, was vice president of Rural for eight years and six as president.
Veterinarian (UBA), received various distinctions, such as the Konex 2018 Business Leaders Award-Diploma of merit. He was also incorporated, in 2010, as a Full Academician of the National Academy of Agronomy and Veterinary Medicine.
In addition, he was the promoter and essential actor of the Liaison Table, the representation of the countryside during the conflict over “resolution 125” made up of the SRA, Coninagro, Argentine Agrarian Federation and Argentine Rural Confederations.
The Argentine Rural Society He fired him through a statement on social networks. “With great pain and deep regret we say goodbye to Luciano Miguens who presided over our entity, in addition to having a long institutional career and in breeder associations, showing valuable commitment to sector leadership“, they expressed.
He died at home and was surrounded by close family. He was affected by cancer that recently resurfaced.
What was the 125 that generated a before and after in the relationship with the field
The conflict over 125 broke out after the then Minister of Economy, Martin Lousteauwill announce the resolution that raised the withholding rate for the agricultural sector. In those years, the international prices of commodities (soybeans, sunflowers, corn and wheat) were high and the Government decided to capture part of that income, with redistributive effects.
This policy generated a strong reaction from rural organizations and unleashed a historic conflict between the Government and the countryside. It was then that Miguens positioned himself as one of the main References of the Liaison Tablethe conglomerate that brought together the four main entities in the sector.
The objective of the 125 at that time was to establish a formula that transforms the percentage retained into mobilein an inverse relationship with the price of grains. If the price in Chicago fell below $200 per ton, soybeans would have zero withholdings. But with the value at 400, that tax percentage would go to 35.75%. And with a price of 600, which seemed inevitable in those months, the retention rate reached 49.33%. That is to say that the Government would keep half the value of what was producedsomething that agricultural producers were not willing to accept.
Finally, the initiative was sent to Congresswhich was approved in deputies, but was rejected in the senate, with the famous “not positive” vote of the then vice president Julio Coboswho had to break the tie, something extremely rare.
Source: Ambito
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