Alonso Urrutia and Emir Olivares
Newspaper La Jornada
Tuesday, May 17, 2022, p. 6
Taking stock of the days to promote self-consumption that he carried out over the weekend, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador maintained that the main objective was to encourage an increase in rural productive activity that allows facing the inflationary impact. He stressed that, unlike the United States and Europe, where subsidies are channeled to these producers, in Mexico the countryside was abandoned.
However, in parallel, López Obrador made a call not to abuse at this juncture, that it is considered that raw materials are increasing, but that it not be abused in the tortilla factories in Mexico City; on average, up to 20 pesos per kilo, in self-service stores 13.90
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In another order, referring to the progress in the negotiations of the Ministry of the Interior with those who had contracts for the self-generation of electricity, López Obrador announced that some financial institutions and self-service chains have already accepted that it be the Federal Electricity Commission that supply them with electricity.
At a conference, he once again criticized neoliberal policies based on the logic, for example in industry, that best industrial policy is no industrial policy
. The direct consequence of this abandonment is that with the commercial opening, Mexican producers began to compete in conditions of disadvantage compared to the outside world.
Regarding the anti-inflationary plan, although one aspect is to promote production for self-consumption, he recalled that the campaign also includes agreements with large producers and distributors to guarantee fair prices for a basic basket of 24 foods. And I am sure that they will comply, the Walmart and Soriana stores, and Chedraui and Ley, they will all comply.
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As he did on his tour of various cities in the country, López Obrador emphasized the importance of having a greater production of basic foods that will ensure their supply. Without corn there is no country, so let’s all sow corn and beans, all, all, all to sow, to self-sufficiency. And it was a very integrated economy because whoever has corn can have enough to feed their chickens and that is where the eggs, tilefish, pigs and other farm animals come from.
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