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Municipal Market of Catia has no meat for three weeks
A worker of the place explained that the monetary reconversion aggravated the problem

By MARÍA FERNANDA GONZÁLEZ | @MARIAGONZALEZZA | [e-mail]
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018 05:15 PM | UPDATED ON SEPTEMBER 06, 2018 5:17 PM


Most of the butcheries located in the Municipal Market of Catia are without beef since before the monetary reconversion.

translated from Spanish

The regulation of meat and chicken, which became official through the Official Gazette, and the elimination of the five zeros to the currency, sharpened the problem of the merchants.

In a tour carried out by the El Nacional Web team, it was found that the butcher shops in the market are mostly empty. The protein that exists in some places are: belly, legs and ears, called as third meat, and pork chops.

"They bring us meat to 66 sovereign bolivars (6,600,000 bolivares fuertes) how are we going to sell to Bs.S 90 (Bs.F 9,000,000) or to Bs.S 80 (Bs.F 8,000,000)?" He said. exclusively to El Nacional Web Luis Rengifo, owner of a business in the Catia market.

The merchant explained that they do not receive the necessary goods to work and do not have enough money to pay the minimum wage, set at Bs.S 1,800 (Bs.F 180,000,000) by President Nicolás Maduro, to the workers.

"We have three weeks without meat, after the reconversion here everything disappeared", detailed Rengifo.

He pointed out that when the chicken arrives they must buy it from Bs.S 74 (Bs.F 7.400.000) and sell it to Bs.S78 (Bs.F7,800,000).

"Chicken comes sometimes, we are buying Bs.S 74 to sell them to Bs.S 78, we are not earning anything, it is not enough to pay the new salary, to buy bags, not at all," Rengifo emphasized.

The few people who go to the market to buy protein, buy the products that there are and not those that they want.

"I've been buying meat, chicken and fish all my life here, you bought what you wanted. Now there is no meat of anything, the only thing that there is is third, "said client Raquel Arango while she saw the empty showcases.

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http://www.el-nacional.com/noticias/sociedad/mercado-municipal-catia-tiene-carne-desde-hace-tres-semanas_250782

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