Last Monday, November 24, Mexican transporters and farmers from the National Transport Association (ANTAC) and the National Front for the Rescue of the Mexican Countryside (FNRCM) They carried out a national strike, and decided to carry out road blockades in some states of the country. During these mobilizations, transporters reported the theft of tires in their units.
Since last Monday, November 17, ANTAC confirmed that there would be a national strike on November 24. They assured that they will not stop private vehicles, neither emergency vehicles nor tourist transport, but they recommended not going out on the road.
The official demands of the protesters were the following:
- Competitive prices for sowing grains and oilseeds, according to your target income.
- That they be granted accessible financing, agricultural insurance and that they be helped to capitalize their productive units.
- Return to the contract farming scheme, in order to ensure prices, buyers and orderly marketing.
- Defend the permanence of Treaty between Mexico, the United States and Canada (T-MEC)as long as Mexican producers are supported.
- They ask for a comprehensive security plan in the countryside and safe roads, protection of collection centers, addressing and combating extortion and the theft of merchandise.
- They request a modern, inclusive and technical agri-food policy in favor of productivity, logistics, infrastructure, modernization and technological adoption.
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The results of the mobilizations
During the day of transporters and farmers, some groups held assemblies in which, for the most part, they did not reach agreements in accordance with authorities. Another of the public meetings that caused controversy was the one held for the media Rosa Icela Rodríguez, the head of the Ministry of the Interioralong with the head of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Sader), Julio Berdeguéy César Yáñez, Undersecretary of the Interior.
In this conference, the official stated that there are political interests of the opposition (PRI, PAN and PRD) behind the mobilizations of transporters and farmers and said that there was no reason for the mobilizations because there is open and permanent dialogue.
After the mobilizations last Monday, this day a video has gone viral in which transporters report the theft of tires in their units. It is presumed that the theft from these units was carried out on the North Bypass of Mexico City, during the road blockades that were held yesterday..
Video uploaded to social networks. SPECIAL /
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