The representative of the Río Grande Storekeepers Center, Luis Schreiber, stated that “some businesses received a bill with more than 1,600% increase.” And he said that “the entire province has to be united in the claim” for the increase in rates.
In this regard, he highlighted: “I think the population realized that if we do not reverse this situation, it is to close the doors and leave because there will be no commerce or sport that exists, with these rates you cannot work.”
Asked about the dollarization of gas, he said that “it is understood that this is what they want to do, to bring gas at an international price, at the market price, when it is a resource that we extract from here and that we are going to have to pay for it at the price that we It’s in the bag, so my question is: For whose benefit?“Since if what is ours is for us, it seems to me that we should take advantage of what is ours and then sell the surplus, but apparently they have another idea,” he stated.
He also expressed that “we have to think about reversing this situation because there is no possibility of continuing to work with these increases, if we want international rates, we have to be paying international salaries,” he explained in statements to FM del Pueblo, reported this Thursday by the newspaper Provincia 2. 3.
The decline in inflation and the increase in poverty
Regarding the National Government’s speech regarding the drop in prices and inflation, Schreiber said that “the reality that exists is different, if prices go down it is because trade is going away or because it has products that are about to expire.”
Finally, he stated that “unfortunately there are more and more people checking the containers outside the supermarkets, sincerely we are experiencing a critical situation.”
