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Brazil & Southern Cone - June 2013 (ISSN 1741-4431)

ARGENTINA: Agricultural sector goes on strike

“A state-of-the-art Ferrari, minus the wheels”, is how Luis Miguel Etchevehere, president of the Sociedad Rural Argentina, chose to describe the country’s agricultural sector shortly before it began a five-day strike on 15 June. “International prices are good,” Etchevehere elaborated. “What is bad is domestic policy.” There has been little love lost between the government led by President Cristina Fernández and the agricultural community since a failed attempt to introduce a sliding scale of export tariffs in 2008, though the focus of this particular strike is unclear. The ‘Mesa de Enlace’, the umbrella group for the country’s four main farmers’ associations, said the stoppage had been called in protest at inflation, rising costs and the tax burden, which taken together were “suffocating” the rural economy.

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