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The Rice Strike Continues in Colombia: in a Letter to the Presidency They Ask to Be Heard and Not to Say that Agreements Have Already Been Reached

Summary by El Tiempo
Intermittent blockades in the country mark one week. Monday, July 21 there is a new meeting with guilds.
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The rice strike remains firm as the price of the grain remains undefined TuBarco Noticias Farmers from at least eight departments maintain blockades and protests. Noticias Colombia. The national rice strike continues this Tuesday in at least eight departments, with partial blockades in productive corridors of the country. Despite the fact that the government and the National Committee of Paro Arrocero reactivated the dialogue at a concert table …

These have been carried out in Tolima, Huila, Meta, Casanare, Córdoba, Arauca, Cesar, Santander, Norte de Santander and Sucre.

The National Peasant Union (UNACA) called on the government to stop "immediately" indiscriminate imports of rice, as "this practice is pushing thousands of producers in the north-east region to fail." (Continue reading...) The Campesinos entry asks to stop imports of rice was first published in Remolacha - Noticias Dominicana.

Luis Apolinar and Eudoro Álvarez de los Llanos, Alcy Cortes del Huila and Mauricio Sosa del Caribe are some of the voices of protest that the Minister has not heard The article They are the rice leaders that have blocked Petro and they also stopped Santos was originally published in Las2orillas. Copyrights Las2orillas.co

The rice producers of the region of La Mojana resumed on Monday, July 21, the blockades in the Troncal of the West, at the height of the La Ye area, in Sahagún, as part of the national strike in the rice sector that continues to add support in different regions of the country. The rice producers insist that the National Government must urgently address the crisis facing the sector, arising from the high production costs, the fall in purchase pri…

They said on Sunday that the strike has not been lifted and that blockades continue on several roads until a final agreement has been reached.

·Bogotá, Colombia
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