The agricultural cooperative The plot denounced this Tuesday that the Buenos Aires Government Control Agency closed the Solidarity Economy Market of the Palermo neighborhood in which eight other cooperatives have been operating that have been selling food or textile products for 15 years.
In a dialogue with Télam, an employee named Gabriela pointed out that she and her colleagues were working in the market located in Bonpland 1660 “When an inspection arrived that requested an authorization that has been requested from the Government of the City of Buenos Aires (CABA) for 12 years.”
“It is not authorized as a market and each sector has a provisional authorization, but the permit is not authorized”said the member of La Parcela and added: “The things they ask for have to be provided by the Buenos Aires government because the building belongs to them.”
“We are going to take the products to the sidewalk, there will be a radio, music and it will be explained with the papers in hand what our problem is”he pointed.
Gabriela explained that “it is a solidarity economy market that sells merchandise from the producer to the consumer” and Cedepo, the organization to which La Parcela belongs, produces “dairy products, eggs and chickens”.
“We work with the family economy,” he stressed, stressing that “each organization has a lot of people working in orchards, markets or logistics, for example.”
In the market there are greengrocers, a cooperative that sells products from recovered cooperatives, family businesses and textile cooperatives.
Through a statement, La Parcela highlighted that they supported “a market of the social and solidarity economy of family farming and agroecology” and that in this way they guarantee “every week without interruption the safe and sovereign healthy food that we all we deserve”.
“We don’t have very clear information, just a red sign on the door. Tomorrow representatives of the organizations will be present before the “porteño” authorities, he added.
On its Facebook page, the Bonpland Solidarity Economy Market published: “We are being harassed by constant inspections by the AGC (Government Control Agency). We do not know if there are internal policies that dispute this public space self-managed by the cooperatives.”
