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The march was carried out because corn producers demanded that the government set the minimum price of corn at seven thousand 200 pesos.
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Mexico City.- After the agreement reached between the Federal Government and the farmers of five states of the country and with it the road blockades were lifted, it came to light that about 11 leaders of the movement have militancy or open sympathy with the National Action Party (PAN) and the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)both part of the opposition.
Although the demands for a fair price for corn were legitimate for many producers, information from Milenio reveals that the blue and white and tricolor have turned this protest into a political issue.
In the state of Hidalgo, the blockades are led by Rubén Corona Hernández, a representative of the National Peasant Front and a PAN activist without public office or elected office.
Meanwhile, the second is Santiago Hernández Bautista, former member of the Communist Party and now member of the PAN.
Regarding Michoacán, there is representation of Alejandro Gámez Vega, former municipal president of Indaparapeo for the PRI in the period 2015-2018; Cuauhtémoc Alejandro Solís García, agricultural producer and former municipal president of Queréndaro for the PAN from 2012 to 2015. Salomón García López, leader of the Malpaís Dam Users Association, close to PRD politicians, is another of the leaders in the entity.
Sinaloa has Baltazar Valdez Armentia, former local deputy for the PAN in Ahome in 2015; In Guanajuato there are three PAN members: they are Erasto Patiño Soto, former PRI deputy and former PAN councilor; Rubén Vázquez de la Rosa, who was from Morena and now identifies himself against the party, in addition to Mauricio Pérez Cabrera, identified as a person close to PAN governments.
Eliazer Rodríguez Ayala and Aldo Ricardo Alatorre Fuentes, as leaders of the blockades, are part of the PRI and are part of the group from the state of Jalisco.
It is worth mentioning that the march was carried out because the corn producers They demanded that the government set the minimum price of corn at 7,200 pesos. The request was rejected by the authorities, as they only offered to set the price at six thousand 050 pesos.