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Buenos Aires province farmers on 9 days commercial strike against higher taxes
Farmers Argentina's top agricultural province of Buenos Aires will halt sales of grains and livestock for nine days to protest against a tax hike passed by the local Congress on Thursday, threatening corn and soy shipments from a leading global exporter. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesthis is just great, same old story repeating itself, the neverending story lol
Jun 02nd, 2012 - 05:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0It is time for armed revolution against the mafia Peronists running the country.
Jun 02nd, 2012 - 11:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0I hope they extend it long enough that the barges waiting to be filled with Soy start leaving. That will truly screw up the gov't finances. There is no room for error now, panic has set in and a little delay of much needed U$ should get the gov't off the farmers backs.
Jun 02nd, 2012 - 12:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They need to hold off selling Soy, all animal products and start dumping milk in the rivers. BA is already on edge and a few empty shelves or a black out and CFK will be on a helicopter then plane to Miami if she is not “held”for her own protection.
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Jun 02nd, 2012 - 03:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes, with all the nightly 'support for the government' ha, ha, going on, it looks like the people are starting to get a little 'agitated'.
One or two more fiascos like those of late and I think the genie of revolution will be well and truly out of the bottle.
Never mind, The Mad Bitch of Argentina made her 'decisions' and will have to deal with the whirlwind they bring.
Oh joy!
“Scioli, seen by foreign investors as a possible market-friendly successor to Cristina Fernandez in a 2015 presidential election”
Jun 02nd, 2012 - 04:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Well he's one to stop then, thats exactly what the country doesn't need. The good successors to Cristina would be Kicillof, Timmerman, Alicia Castro, Nilda Gurre (a very experienced minister who was a left Peronist deputy in the early 70s, we don't here much about her but she seems reliable based on her lifelong left record), maybe Annibal Fernandez (though he'll need to control that temper!) and maybe some loyal Kirchnerists I've not heard of, but the best would obviously be Cristina herself back for another term =)
But the fact that even a market friendly politician like Scioli is coming under fire from the farmers over tax shows just how reactionary they are. This seems like a minor (I hope) repeat of the reactionary protests of 2008
Just as a matter of interest, is there any part of the argie work(joke)force that isn't on strike or about to go on strike. Such a wonderful, progressive cuntry!
Jun 02nd, 2012 - 04:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0La Campora ( brown shirts) are now busting up meetings and beating women.
Jun 02nd, 2012 - 05:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Gonna get ugly... animals get very viscous when they are cornered.
I'm with BK. Christina should run again.
Jun 02nd, 2012 - 07:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0CFK cut off money to Bs As province (Scioli) and raising taxes on property is his (Scioli) only option in order to get money. But raising a property value from $2 million pesos to $13 million pesos is more than campo persons are wqilling to put up with. Looks like more problems to come.
Jun 02nd, 2012 - 09:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 09. Yeah between the nat gas mess, transportation mess, CGT mess, U$ mess, nightly protests and farm blockade CFK may be taking a plane ride to nowhere soon.
Jun 02nd, 2012 - 09:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hope to oiga!
Jun 02nd, 2012 - 10:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As always, Mendoza province shines for its management soundness and social serenity. As always, the great province of the west.
Jun 02nd, 2012 - 10:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0These traitors should be thrown in jail. Destroying the country from within. Christina will sort them out of sure.
Jun 03rd, 2012 - 01:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0With Argentine inflation running away at 30% and wage rises averaging about 5% things are only going to go one way...
Jun 03rd, 2012 - 01:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Protesting a 600% property tax increase and you think they should be thrown in jail? I am guessing you don't own any property.
Jun 03rd, 2012 - 01:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I think it should be the politicians that should be lined up against a wall and summarily dealt with.... 150K per vote RG “democracy” at work!!
traitors should not be tolerated..period.
Jun 03rd, 2012 - 04:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ok marcos you are going off here... Were the labor unions traitors for holding like 30 national strikes in the De La Rua period, which clearly damaged growth tremendously?
Jun 03rd, 2012 - 04:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If yes, then I would agree with you though the farmers still have quite a bit of slack before I reach that conclusion.
Do you consider corrupt politicians traitors to the people? Or just those that refuse to have their wealth appropriated by the state...again...every 10 yrs or so...
Jun 03rd, 2012 - 04:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Taxes on exports is good as long as said tax is used to boost production or improve the infrastructure or logistics.
Jun 03rd, 2012 - 05:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 019 - True, but the tax revenue is only going into the pockets of the K people, not to ANY improvements. Punto!
Jun 03rd, 2012 - 10:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 016 Marcos Alejandro:
Jun 04th, 2012 - 01:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0neither your fascist thoughts...“traitors”? WTF??? Traitors to what? Your authoritarian praxis and relato?
Think that the right to dissent and to rebel to excesses wasn´t traison...perhaps “idealist subversive” but not that stupid insult.
BTW, the old tradition to wash the dirty clothes at home seems to be outside your nac&pop “principles” in case you have one.
@8 She's going to run. Just as soon as she's creamed enough off.
Jun 04th, 2012 - 12:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@13 Good idea! Throw all the farmers in jail. How are you at growing things? Apart from your mouth.
@16 Just remember that argieland is governed for the benefit of “the people”. The farmers are “people”. Discuss.
The Farmers work for the benefit of the country. Holding the country to ransom by starving them is traitorous.
Jun 04th, 2012 - 05:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They owes taxes so they should pay the going rate. End of story.
Starving the country?
Jun 04th, 2012 - 05:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Kris successed reducing the cows stock in 15 MM heads with her wrong policies, vgr 10000 employees of the meat industry became unemployed. As the CEO of JBS put it declaring that “Argentina´s Government is massacring her meat processing industry”.
Kirchner succeeded destroying the wheat chain, without any benefit for the people, but only for a dozen of mill owners, and bread price skyrocketed, farmers can´t seed anymore and Brazil our ally lost the sure and cheaper supply (one of the first comercial win-win goals of the Mercosur)
Corn chain is going in the same direction of failure, let´s see it in a pair of years.
There is one responsable for the starving: Kirchner´s government, her food policies, her inflation and her greedness.
I know myself too much of hunger in suburban areas, where I have been working last 10 years. I know where the governmente supply is stolen and don´t need to repeat stupid slogans written at Casa Rosada or from above in an helicopter.
You are so wrong. The people here have never known hunger. But if they do know it soon because of the farmers then beware, the people won't let it happen.
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