Interview Manuel Hernández, the leader of the transport strike, speaks: "It will go further, we are desperate"
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The truckers stationed around the fountain in the Plaza de San Juan de la Cruz looked towards the same place, concentrated around the boatmen from Nuevos Ministerios.
The silent rattles of the flags of each autonomous community identified the groups of protesters who arrived from all over Spain at the Castellana and the sound of the horns hit the protest.
Dozens of demonstrators looked towards the last step of the stairs although they did not hear or see anything.
The few able to distinguish the finished slogans transmitted the cheers downwards in a chain of noises.
A man located in front of the spokesman waved the fans.
"We are listening to Manuel", to Manuel Hernández, the carrier who encouraged the strike in the sector with his harangues on Facebook.
Before the meeting with the Minister of Transport, Raquel Sánchez,
his irradiating sideburns agglutinated the anger of the workers as if he were a god to whom only the chosen ones listened clearly.
"We are people of flesh and blood," says Esther, from Cartagena and a trucker's wife.
"We are mothers and fathers of families who can no longer do it. They do not take us into account. They have despised us. We have felt the contempt of politicians.
It hurts me that my husband is looked down upon for defending his right to take money home and work without cost"
.
The question asked itself: are you from the extreme right?
To her right, a woman held an Intereconomy umbrella and in front of her waved an ikurriña.
Someone with a republican-colored hat was talking to a man who was dressed in a fachaleco.
Printed banners with the memes of Spanish support were displayed next to the Pamplona gangs.
The constitutional and the republican flag coexisted.
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"Do we look like the extreme right?", asks Segundo, from the Bilbao area.
"The solution that the government has given us is shit.
What would you do if it costs you more money than you earn to go to work?
There are people who spend a lot of time riding in the truck and can't bring home a living wage.
The truck is a tool that is devalued.
You have many expenses.
You never know what's going to happen
."
Truckers' accounts are dizzying.
All the demonstrators respond by making the calculations of their ruin.
"We lose 1,500 euros a month
," explains Luis, from Oviedo.
"Before we paid 3,500 euros for fuel and now 8,000. The difference comes out of our pockets.
What use are the 166 euros a year that the minister offers us? You're welcome
," intervenes Héctor, his partner.
"It's just that there are many liters of fuel. Plus what each fix, each repair costs. Each wheel is worth 500 euros. A new truck, 120,000 euros plus VAT," adds Luis.
"The solution doesn't work for us."
"There is no talk of socialist voters"
If on Sunday the gentlemen of the countryside collapsed the city, this Friday the princes of the trucks waved their desperation before the Government.
They share a sense of the end of the cycle.
As if they couldn't fit in any more sanchista propaganda.
"He talks a lot about the extreme right but not about the socialist voters that are here
," considers Carmen, who accompanies her husband.
They traveled this morning from La Peza, a town in Granada.
"In this situation it is impossible to maintain a house. The other day the bank asked me to pay a bill. It's just that I can't. I have to delay it until next month. How can we live like this?
I have 2,000 euros left on the bill and I'm going to give them to the bank
. "
Two friends spin out of the protest towards Miguel Ángel street.
One of them, José Perales, had to sell all his trucks.
His friend, José López, accompanies him to the Caixa to enter "the water".
They carry a bag with cash.
"We have to get rid of the intermediaries.
That the factories entrust us with the work directly
. The Government's solution is bread for today and hunger for tomorrow," says the first.
They are both from Jaén.
They have been out for two weeks.
"It is better to stay at home," adds the other, on whom five families and their seven grandchildren depend.
"In these two weeks I have lost less money working.
This government has achieved what no one has achieved: unite us all, without thinking about politics
. We are all together against them because they are sucking the blood of the people. We had to do as in Germany and throw them out the windows.
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