Colombia: Bolívar, Sucre, and Córdoba feel the shortage and high prices

Published 2021년 5월 25일

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The article provides an overview of the impact of nationwide blockades on food and raw material availability in Colombia, focusing on the departments of Bolívar, Sucre, and Córdoba. Despite not being as severely affected as other areas, these departments still experience issues due to blocked roads and transportation challenges. The blockades have led to increased prices and economic impacts, with the Cartagena Chamber of Commerce documenting significant business disruptions and price hikes. The article also mentions efforts to mitigate the effects through mobile marketplaces and addresses concerns regarding the delivery of vaccines and the safety of live cattle sales amidst the blockades.

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Although the departments of Bolívar, Sucre and Córdoba have not suffered as severely from blockades on their roads, the effect is felt by what is happening in the rest of the country. This is how food and raw materials cannot arrive and what there is has high prices. According to Jesús Zapata Obregón, Regional Coordinator of Fedegán - FNG in Bolívar and Sucre, the impact has been less, a blockage in the western trunk between Corozal and Sincelejo where they destroyed and set fire to the toll there. Likewise at the height of the municipality of Turbaco there has been a blockade and the Mamonal variant. This has obstructed the entry and exit of products to Cartagena. (Read: The good time of milk in Córdoba and Sucre) However, for the foot-and-mouth disease vaccination that began this Monday, there is no problem, the biological was received and the vaccinators report no news. The mobilizations in this area of the country have occurred mainly in the urban areas of Sincelejo, Cartagena ...

Source: MXContexto