“We’re all worn out from working so hard, while you support businessmen who earn billions!,” exclaimed Salvador Ruiz, a farmer from Jalisco, to the Agriculture Secretariat’s delegate.
Campesinos are demanding the federal government craft a sovereign agricultural scheme & leave the speculative market of the Chicago Stock Exchange, which forces prices well below production value.
Maseca, Minsa, Bachoco, Keken and Crio executives, who import corn from US, also failed to show up to the meeting despite promises from the government.
Producers did not agree to formalize the base price of 5,200 pesos offered by the government in this most recent national agricultural strike.