“I Went Through Total Misery”: a Producer Threatened to Set Himself on Fire to Be Paid an Alleged Debt

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POSADAS, Misiones.- A situation of maximum tension was experienced today in the town of Salto Encantado, when a yerbater producer entered the office of a weed dryer mate with two cans of nafta and a rag and threatened to set himself on fire, demanding to be paid an alleged debt. The producer, according to the NATION, is called Alejandro Cus and has a disabled son, and long ago claimed for the payment of green leaf delivered to that establishment…

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Cus explained that the company, carried out the harvest and transfer service with the commitment to pay him once the fielded weed was sold. However, with the passage of the months, the payment never materialized. “They took me the weed on the condition that, when they sold it, they would pay me. But they didn’t give me a penny,” he said in the interview. In the first months of the year he received checks from the entrepreneur, but most of them w…

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Alejandro Cuz is an agricultural producer of Misiones, specifically of San Vicente, in the provincial center. Tired of waiting for Yerba Mateo Agro Moreno to pay for the goods he bought, he decided to break into the company’s offices and was willing to set himself on fire with two diesel drums if he was not paid what he owed. As explained in several videos that were published by missionary means, the Dryer owes him more than 2 and a half million…

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This morning, a Yerbatero producer broke into the Agro Moreno dryer, located in Salto Encantado, with two diesel drums decided to set himself on fire in demand for a green leaf payment that the company owes him since last year. “They pay me or they take me out of here in ashes,” he threw at his threat, which minutes later he declined and was withdrawn without offering resistance to the police uniforms who intervened in the place. “I made a decis…