At 91, Ricardo "Cacho" Barrios Arrechea has enough energy to criticize the government for its weed policy.

Cacho Barrios, as everyone in Misiones knows him, is part of a family that has been involved in yerba mate production since the 19th century, and he does not hold back, even though he defines himself as "a retired producer," and rightly so, because he is 91 years old and feels the fatigue in his body. Ricardo Barrios Arrechea, as everyone in Buenos Aires knows Cacho, is also a respected political leader of the UCR in Misiones, who governed his province upon the return of democracy and held several national positions, and he does not hold back because at 91 years old he also feels a certain moral fatigue that reveals him. The yerba mate producer and also the political leader was interviewed on the program Nuestra Tierra, on Radio Perfil, to learn his perspective on the furious deregulation that - through a decree - the government of Javier Milei promoted on the National Yerba Mate Institute (INYM), created by law in 2002 precisely with the objective of determining reference prices ...