Shop owners and neighbors of Montserrat lifted the road block at the intersection of Corrientes Ave. and Florida St. as they demand for illegal street vending to be abolished
Shop owners threatened to “stop paying taxes” and set pickets in different City streets if the City government doesn’t find a solution to street peddlers.
In if there’s no solution to the street peddlers in the next thirty days, store owners will stop paying taxes and will block streets throughout the City,” the head of the Argentine Confederation for Middle sized Business (CAME) Osvaldo Cornide warned.
Thus, shop owners and employees from stores along Florida street came today to block off Corrientes avenue for the fourth consecutive day demanding the removal of all street peddlers settled in front of their shops as they claim that more than 60 shops are to be closed due to the presence of illegal competitors.
Protests continue a day after the Metropolitan police raided several alleged stockpiles of illegally manufactured merchandise in the City neighborhoods of Balvanera and Flores.
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