He President Gustavo Petro once again attacked the Congress of the Republic, behind him collapse of the financing lawas he assured that the Legislature will have a new ‘headache’ due to a debt that exceeds 180 million dollars.
“The deficit that the National Coffee Growers Fund has to pay is a new debt that someone has to assume, it could be the Government, but they have defunded us“said the president.
“It has been defunded in a single year by 180 million dollars. A new debt that someone has to assume. It could be the Government, of course, in a new ‘coffee pact’. The new coffee pact should bring new conditions, among others, the industrialization and regionalization processes of coffee“added Petro.
“The high prices of coffee generate wealth for Colombia, wealth for the coffee family, wealth for the coffee territory, but they bring us a headache, not because of it, but because of the speculative criteria with which the National Federation of Coffee Growers of three countries was managed. , four years from now. Now, the high price represents the nation’s fiscal crisis. This has to do with, then, where are we going? Here in this region. And I would not separate myself from coffee at all, as long as it can be industrialized in the same territory.“he assured.
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Likewise, the head of state has referred critically to the National Federation of Coffee Growers, saying that if it is not restructured, “sThe contract with the National Coffee Fund ends“signed by former president Juan Manuel Santos, in 2016 for a term of 10 years.
It is worth mentioning that The president has not only linked the collapse of his proposal to the issue of coffee growers, but he also said that the elimination of the Mi Casa Ya subsidy would have occurred due to the fall of the financing law.
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