As the Economy no longer keeps track for them, the yerba mate growers are appealing to Diego Santilli: They asked him to intervene to "reverse the situation."

Facing an economic portfolio that seems to turn a deaf ear to the claims of the yerba mate sector, despite the fact that it depends on the Secretariat of Agriculture, the producers from Misiones decided to change their strategy and target another area of government. Through a letter sent to Diego Santilli, head of the Ministry of the Interior, the farmers requested an urgent meeting and his intervention "to begin reversing the senseless destruction of this regional economy that until two years ago was thriving and working with an innovative imprint." "Since Javier Milei assumed the Presidency, the Argentine Yerba Mate is suffering a criminal deterioration. Decree 70/23 and economic measures taken by the current national Government, of which you are a part, are causing the destruction of the regional yerba mate economy, pushing thousands of workers in the sector, and hundreds of drying houses, cooperatives, and small and medium industries, into poverty," the letter describes. And ...