Global Courant 2023-05-12 18:05:23
In a heated session in the Senate Chamber where the Chief of Staff, Agustín Rossi, presented his first management report to the Chamber of Senators this Thursday, Martín Martín Lousteau and Cristina Kirchner staged a spicy crossover at the end of the session that ended with the memory of “the 125”.
The “round trip” began with the explanation of the vice president that for the session on Wednesday, May 11, “a quorum is not needed.” Without wasting time, the radical senator replied that “they should have learned economics, too” to which Cristina retorted “You taught me with the 125”.
The moment went viral in a matter of minutes and users began to relive the memory of what Resolution 125 was and the memory of 15 years ago.
Mobility was based on price: with grains, soybeans in this case, sold at a low price, withholdings would be almost non-existent. At higher prices, higher retentions. An international price of $400 per ton of soybeans would result in a withholding of almost 38 percent for producers.
If the price of soybeans increased, and everything indicated that it was going to increase, and it did increase, the withholdings could reach up to 49 percent: half of what is produced by agriculture would thus go into the hands of the Government.
Rural entities, forever divided, came together as one to reject the measure. The roadblocks in the interior were born, the cacerolazos in the Capital, the counter marches K with the former piquetero Luis D’Elía to the blows against the opponents in Plaza de Mayo, the shortages in the big cities and a climate of tension every ever more visible.