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Updated Saturday, February 10, 2024-21:13

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  • Live Farmers protests

Around

600 farmers and ranchers,

according to the Government Delegation in Castilla y León, have gathered this afternoon at the gates of the

Valladolid Fair

, where the 38th edition of the Goya Awards is being held, to make their demands known with whistles, cowbells and some firecrackers, but without notable incidents.

Those gathered, who have mixed with the attending public eager to see actors, actresses and other prominent guests from the world of cinema (another 600 people), have worn the emblematic yellow vests, identifying the movement

of

independent farmers and ranchers, which wears mobilizing for more than a week in Castilla y León.

Tranquility

has been the dominant note in the protest, once this morning a tractor rally, which had been announced in recent days, was ruled out, and the mobilization opted for a rally on foot at the Valladolid Fair to make their demands heard but

without

prevent the normal celebration of the gala.

The protest has not been silent but has been livened up with numerous whistles and the noise of cowbells, in addition to boos that intensified as the vehicles arrived at the venue with the guests; Slogans have also been chanted against the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez.

"The united field will never be defeated"

is the motto that has been repeated the most, along with others endorsed by signs carried by the protesters, demanding solutions for the countryside, and which have been contained by a significant police deployment that is part of of the special security operation designed for the

Goya gala.

The "denigrated" and indebted countryside

"We are mobilizing peacefully," said Carlos Duque, a farmer from Castroverde de Cerrato (Palencia), in statements to EFE, in which he lamented that "the countryside is denigrated"; It is the place you go to on the weekends and that people only remember when the CAP and diesel subsidies come out.

However, citizens have

the fields in their homes three times a day

, the farmer, the rancher, the horticulturist, and have demanded that they be valued, because "the people of the countryside work from dawn to dusk; every day, days that it is raining, that they are preparing the machinery in the warehouse, that they are harvesting, sowing or fertilizing".

Duque has insisted that "they have been producing below costs for two years, and thanks to subsidies they survive and continue to go into debt", but the group does not want subsidies, they want decent prices to be able to live off their work in the fields and "give to eat the world".

For his part, Javier Villanueva, from Medina del Campo (Valladolid), has insisted on reviewing the application of the 2030 Agenda, because farmers and ranchers have different restrictions than those of other countries, outside the EU, that sell here at lower prices, which represents unfair competition.

Villanueva considers this type of mobilization necessary, also having been present at the Goya, because "nobody inside is going to complain for us", but he has also recognized that they had no intention of causing problems for the film festival, so they have turned to organize through social networks but all with the same idea: peaceful protest.

"We all have the same policy, to be calm and simply make noise," he indicated, without tractor units or traffic problems on the roads, that this Saturday they have been very calm in Valladolid, except for some specific traffic jams on the N-112 due to presence of tractors.

Guests at the Goya awards show their support for farmers

There are several guests at the Goya Awards gala who have shown their support for the farmers concentrated at the gates of the venue. Among them, Alberto Amman, nominated for best leading actor for 'Upon Entry': "My heart goes out to the farmers, because if there are no farmers, not even God eats here."

The actress Macarena Gómez has also done it: "On fire with the farmers!" she said.