Journal of Haiti and the Americas
Argentina: massive protests against the cost of living
Audio 7:30 p.m.
Demonstrators bang on drums, demanding an increase in workers' wages to meet the cost of living, Buenos-Aires (Argentina), August 17, 2022. AP - Rodrigo Abd
By: Marion Cazanove
2 mins
Inflation increased by 71% over one year in Argentina.
Thousands, if not tens of thousands, marched through the streets of Buenos Aires on Wednesday (August 17, 2022), with distinct messages against the cost of living.
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The largest demonstration, near Parliament, brought together several thousand people at the call of unions, including the CGT, traditionally allied with the center-left government.
The organizers wanted, with this march, “
to defend the government and denounce those who take the bread from the mouths of the workers
”.
It was the first time that the CGT had called for a demonstration since the inauguration of President Alberto Fernandez.
On the contrary, other rallies also criticized the government and accused the CGT of connivance.
Venezuela: Nicolas Maduro “cedes” agricultural land to foreign countries
Isolated on the international scene, the Venezuelan president is trying to get closer to foreign countries, by offering them arable land.
Iran recently announced via its official press agency that Caracas was preparing to “hand over” a million hectares to it.
The country's farmers and herders denounce counterproductive agreements.
Joined by Justine Fontaine, Manuel Anzola, himself a farmer, deplores these agreements: “
We haven't produced corn for seven years!
If we are not able to produce, nor to supply the agri-food industry, how could another country come to sow here and then leave with this food?
The war in Ukraine and the lifting of part of the American sanctions against Caracas could give the authorities additional leeway to forge new commercial agreements of this type.
Haiti: cassava, soon to be a UNESCO World Intangible Cultural Heritage?
It is a pancake cooked almost exclusively with water and cassava flour.
It is often eaten for breakfast, in Haiti, and more generally in the Caribbean.
After the "soup joumou", Haiti hopes to register this typical dish as a UNESCO intangible cultural heritage.
The country has, in any case, launched together with several Caribbean countries (Cuba, Honduras, Venezuela…) a multinational process in this direction.
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