Extremadura has collapsed during the morning of this Wednesday. Twelve roads and highways (7 in the province of Badajoz and 5 in the province of Cáceres) have been paralyzed in a historic manifestation of the Extremadura countryside, where there have been no incidents and where women farmers have starred in the great image of the day, distributing paprika containers from the region of La Vera to the patient patients who have endured with patience - and most with a smile - the cuts of the tracks (approximately 30 minutes).

In Berlanga (Badajoz) protesters have burned an old tractor, in disuse, to symbolize the critical situation of the sector. The Government Delegation highlighted that "specific breaches of the resolutions agreed with the convening agrarian organizations" have been detected, although it states that "the safety of persons and property has not been compromised." And it has been agreed that cuts of roads of about 10 minutes, although in some ways these times have increased.

In some cases, the withholdings have been kilometric. In particular, the cuts have surprised at the Portuguese border on the A-5 motorway, at the height of Badajoz, where there is a special commercial traffic in the area between both countries.

In Navalmoral de la Mata (Cáceres), at kilometer 174, agricultural organizations have allowed cars to pass under special circumstances (older people or travelers carrying small children). Carmen was traveling from Madrid to Chiclana (Cádiz), with her brother and two young children, who have been scared by the launch of some firecrackers. The organization has quickly let them through, just as they have 'released' a hearse.

Protests

Five weeks after the outbreak of the protests, at the Agroexpo fair in Don Benito (Badajoz), with a police charge that left 19 injured, and that exploded the underlying problem of the agricultural sector (the low prices offered for their products and the rise in production costs with the double increase of the SMI), farmers are still on the warpath.

Since then, they complained today, the Government of Pedro Sánchez has not taken a single effective measure to calm the spirits. And the protests happen day after day throughout Spain, and more if the intervention of the Vice President of the Government, Pablo Iglesias, intermediate to add even more gasoline to the representatives of the farmers, whom he separated "with nocturnality and alevosía" of the meeting last week with the Minister of Labor.

For that reason, a good part of the placards of today in the entire region of Extremadura were dedicated to the leader of Podemos: "The pigtails eats seabass and the farmers in the ruin", it could be read on a sign placed on the hundreds of tractors They have joined the protest. Because the Extremadura countryside has stopped its production today practically unanimously.

The call yesterday from agricultural organizations (specifically Asaja) to not work today and that all agricultural workers and producers were united to the concentrations has taken effect, and that in Extremadura the labor agreement of the field has not been signed (precisely because of the double rise of the SMI) for several months now.

But today they were all united in "peaceful" protests. "This is the revolution of smiles, not what they told us in Catalonia," Alfonso was heard saying, a worker from Talayuela, where 90% of tobacco is produced throughout Spain. The sheets of this product were also protagonists, deposited on the road as a symbol of low prices and fear, in addition, that the European Union of, with its cuts in agricultural funds, the final blow to the field.

Cuts

In Navalmoral de la Mata, on the A-5, approximately 4,000 farmers and ranchers (who wore yellow vests) and about 200 tractors have been concentrated , to cut the highway while in Almendralejo (Badajoz), the concentration has exceeded 5,000 people and about 1,200 tractors. The convening agrarian organizations have complained about the limits imposed by the Government Delegation.

"They have not allowed us access with more tractors," said Ángel García Blanco, president of Asaja Extremadura while Juan Metidieri, president of Apag Extremadura, accused the Government Delegation in Extremadura yesterday of "trying to intimidate" the farmers: " This complaint is based on the attitude that the Civil Guard is having that in an 'unusually high' way has increased the documentation controls and vehicle stops at strategic points that are related to the road cuts. "

García Blanco has assured that "our objectives with these cuts is to make this incapable and incompetent government sit down to negotiate to get farmers to charge prices of the 21st century and not the 19th century. We apologize to the drivers for the road cuts but we have the force, but not the strength of the batons that beat us in Don Benito but the force of reason to continue living in this region that we love so much, because otherwise they are forcing us to emigrate outside Extremadura, there is no right to that our towns empty, so we go all by one, and we feel the affection of all the people, even of those who have been retained on the Extremadura roads, "he said.

On the other hand, Ignacio Huertas, regional leader of UPA-UCE has described the mobilizations as successful and stressed that "what this has to do is to denounce the very serious situation that the Extremaduran countryside and the Spanish countryside are experiencing", as well as if to tell the Spanish Government that this sector cannot "wait any longer, that measures need to be put in place", Huertas has defended, in particular to demand legislative measures "that change the situation".

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