Entre Ríos Agrarian Federation head, Alfredo De Angeli, came on stage amidst the farming sector’s liaison board lockout triggered after a BA province land and tax hike to remark that the measure is not related to the latest pot-banging protests led within the Buenos Aires City against the Kirchner administration, but stressed “though we have very similar problems.”
Likewise, De Angeli charged against the land reform conducted by provincial Governor Daniel Scioli, and denounced that farmers are suffering from “a high tax pressure, and the lack of trade policies.”
Furthermore, De Angeli, who came into light as a public figure during the 2008 agricultural lockout against a massive grains export tax hike, warned that the government is not doing anything against the “large production concentration conducted by the infamous agribusiness pooles.”
Asked about the latests protests led throughout the City by neighbours who repudiate Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s administration as calling it “a highly corrupted government”, De Angeli remembered “the pot-banging protests can be a warning alarm for the government. Let’s not forget that the 2001 crisis started the same exact way.”
Moreover, the farmer aimed cannons to the government’s modus operandi: “This government has copied some of the policies implemented by Nazi Germany as in terms of media manipulation and the spreading of government’s propaganda.”
To end, De Angeli warned about the government’s utilization of the La Cámpora political group as a taskforce: “They have also copied the Nazi regime as they appear as a typical Nazi army. The last thing we want is to see them killing people.”
The liaison board is set to meet tomorrow to analyze the broadening of the agricultural lockout to a “national” level.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald