After they left the negotiation table this Monday at the Ministry of the Interior (Segob) for not reaching a price of 7,200 pesos per ton of corn, Producers warned that patience was over.
After meeting with the Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development, Julio Berdegué and trying to enter Segob, The farmers demanded the reinstatement of the “real, open and decisive” negotiation table.
On the morning of this Tuesday, October 28, the Peasant Agricultural Movement assured in a statement that the response they received “It was an offense”: “An offer of 6,050 is not a negotiation, it is a mockery that condemns our families to hunger.”
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“The fight is transformed. The demand is undeniable. Yesterday, October 27, the Mexican countryside demonstrated its strength, its unity and its dignity. We left peacefully, but with the iron determination of those who feed this nation. Enough simulations! “Patience is over!” expressed the field workers.
They reiterated that their position “is firmer than ever: We are no longer asking. We are DEMANDING.”
They asked the federal government and state governments to stop being judge and party because it is their constitutional duty to join the demand and pressure private industry to pay fairly.
“To the Government of Mexico and President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo: The time for false promises is over. The peace of this country depends on the dignity of its farmers. “Either there are fair prices now, or the fight will intensify.”they declared.
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They added that their demands are not negotiable: “They are the absolute minimum for the dignity and survival of the Mexican countryside: 7,200 pesos per ton of corn and 6,000 pesos per ton of sorghum,” they noted.
Faced with demonstrations in several states and road blockades, producers called not to take a step back.
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