In Tierra del Fuego, merchants showed great concern about service bills. 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” against the rate increase.
“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”, he highlighted.
Asked about the dollarization of gas, he asked who benefits from the increase. “It is understood that they want to bring gas at an international price, at the market price. But it is a resource that we extract from here and that we are going to have to pay for it at the price that is on the stock market,” he reasoned. “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 in relation to the national government.
In addition, he 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.
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 commerce is leaving or because products are about to expire.”
Finally, he stated that “unfortunately there are more and more people checking the containers outside the supermarkets; honestly, we are experiencing a critical situation.”
