The National Observatory for Consumer Protection (ONPECO) urged the authorities to promote some type of compensatory measures for the effects of inflation that affects the most vulnerable families.
He said that these families have seen with “scare the increases in the products of the family basket during the first month of this year.”
He affirms that there are oils on the market, which in December of last year cost 700 pesos and today, the same oil, quantity and container, is offered for a thousand pesos, which is equivalent to 300 pesos more in the current month of January 2022 , despite the fact that before the pandemic this product cost only 400 pesos. Something similar occurs with the prices of sugar, coffee, beans, eggs, chicken; And not to mention meat and fish. “To these increases is added the price of transportation, electricity, cooking gas and fuels in general, which generates an immediate impact on all lines of the family economy.”
