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(21 Dec 2023)
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Buenos Aires - 21 December 2023
1. Argentina's National Congress and fair tents with vegetable boxes pilled up
2. Grocery store staff grabbing vegetables and bringing them to customers at the front
3. Staff giving vegetables to customers
4. Man weighs potatoes
5. Grocery store owner packs vegetable for customer
6. Customers queuing
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Martín Velazquez, Union of Workers of the Popular Economy spokesperson:
"The idea is to show what workers and the popular economy have been doing for a long time; to show solidarity with the rest of the people, sharing foods from the basic basket, which will be appreciated at the Christmas table of many people that have been hit very, very hard. Yesterday, they showed that (with the protest after President Milei's announcement), they took to the streets and met here at the Congress."
8. Customer picking and buying homemade cheese
9. Cheese
10. Shopowner grabs cheese and gives it to a customer
11. Dulce de Leche, peppers, and pickles
12. Pickles with prices stuck to them
13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Silvia Moncard, retiree:
"(This fair) It saves us given the dramatic situation that this country is experiencing, a dramatic and self-inflicted situation by a president who, honestly, I can't name. How can people be so wrong when voting for someone like him?"
14. Union of Workers of the Popular Economy workers and boxes filled with lettuce, peppers, tomatoes, and beets
15. Close of worker grabbing cherry tomatoes and placing them in a bag
16. Pastry
17. Pastry shop owner filling a back with pastries
18. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Margarita Pizarro, retiree:
"It would be very nice if they always came from the farm to sell here straight to us. This is very useful because it is more affordable. On the other hand, buying from bigger chains of supermarkets, of course, we have to pay double the price."
19. Grocery store worker selecting tomatoes
20. Woman holding chards waiting in line to pay
21. Line of customers in front of a grocery shop, and National Congress building seen at the back
22. Customers and fair tents
23. National Congress and fair tents
STORYLINE:
Small food producers held a low-price fair on Thursday in front of Argentina's National Congress.

It offered vegetables and groceries at an affordable price in 78 tents so that people could buy them at a better price than in a regular supermarket.

Organized by the Union of Workers of the Popular Economy, the fair aimed to demonstrate that supermarket chain prices were selling items at a higher price to the public.

The Union fears Argentine President Javier Milei's economic plan and the soaring inflation the country is experiencing will profoundly affect low-income livelihoods.

"The idea is to show what workers and the popular economy have been doing for a long time; to show solidarity with the rest of the people, sharing foods from the basic basket, which will be appreciated at the Christmas table of many people that have been hit very, very hard," said Union spokesperson Martín Velazquez.

A new package of measures announced by Milei on Wednesday shook the country's foundations and Argentina's economic system, heralding a deepening of social protest, and could encounter obstacles in Congress and justice for its effective implementation.

After the president announced much of the decree's content on Wednesday night, thousands of people banged their pots and pans in various neighborhoods of Buenos Aires in rejection.



AP Video by Cristian Kovadloff



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