This Tuesday, roads of at least eight entities remained blocked by grain producerseven though the Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development, Julio Berdeguereported that they had reached an agreement to price per ton with three states of the Bajío.
The Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation (SICT) reported that The protests are concentrated in Jalisco (one total and six partial), Guanajuato (18), Sinaloa (4), Michoacán (2), San Luis Potosí (1), Tlaxcala (1), Colima (1) and Morelos (1).
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The farmers insist on their demand for a guaranteed price of 7,200 pesos per ton, after rejecting the federal government’s offer of 6,050 pesos.
The protesters partially freed a lane on the Bajío roads. In Jalisco, the Secretary General of the Government, Salvador Zamora Zamora, explained that the section known as Kilometer 40 of the Guadalajara-Colima highway, strategic for connecting cargo transportation from the port of Manzanillo, continues to be closed.
The Secretariat of Security and Peace of Guanajuato issued a road alert in which he urged citizens to avoid critical points, including Comonfort, Irapuato and Pénjamo.
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While in Sinaloa, farmers keep four booths occupied: Navolato, El Pisal, Cuatro Caminos, and San Miguel Zapotitlán, where they gave free passage to motorists, but only in one lane.
“There is no decision different from what was reported yesterday, there is no (…) the decision of the National Front for the Rescue of the Mexican Countryside, regarding the demonstrations, they are maintained by agreement permanently,” warned the leader of the farmers in that entity, Baltazar Valdez.
The decision was made after the collapse of negotiations between producers, federal authorities and corn industries, he confirmed.
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In Michoacán the Maravatío-Zapotlanejo highway is closed; in SLP, Querétaro-San Luis Potosí; in Tlaxcala, Los Reyes México-Zacatepec; and in Morelos, the Siglo XXI Highway, near Amilcingo, in Temoac.
from himThis Monday afternoon, all passenger bus departures from Colima to Guadalajara were suspended. and other regions, leaving hundreds stranded.
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