The conflict that, since the beginning of the week, blocked the strategic highway that links Santa Cruz with the interior of the country at the Friendship Bridge, between Montero and Portachuelo, was resolved, with the serious damage that can be imagined, making transportation difficult of people and loads on both sides. The dialogue of the deaf between representatives of the Government and the producers delayed a timely solution.
The problem has to do with a couple of supreme decrees whose application can affect the normal supply of diesel for the operation of machinery and transportation that agriculture uses during sowing and harvest periods, such as those that coincide in the Santa Cruz region in this time of year. A problem that also affects public transport in general, whose units are observed for hours in endless lines at the pumps to stock up on fuel. Three long days passed for the Government to ensure the supply of fuel; while the producers accept the decrees as control mechanisms so that there is no diversion of fuel.
For some time now, the culture of conflict has taken root and spread in Santa Cruz, the department known for its industriousness and productive dynamics that are now severely altered. Stoppages, strikes and blockades have become our daily routine, a painful constant, coinciding with a prolonged and deep economic crisis. When it is equivalent to shooting yourself in the foot, not working or producing a single day. In this way, the economy of the country and the productive sectors plummet.
