"Pan, tierra, trabajo, fuck auctions": Federated Bases fired Ana Galmarini, a "woman in struggle" who was firm

With great sadness, Bases Federadas this week bid farewell to Ana Galmarini, an agricultural producer from Santa Fe and one of the founders of that movement which, some years ago, split from the Argentine Agrarian Federation. Her story was strongly marked by the agricultural struggle, to the point of having been a key figure in the Mujeres Lucha movement, founded by Lucy de Cornellis in La Pampa, which had great prominence during the 1990s. "It was something historic, a before and after in the agrarian struggle. She was an example of standing up, of putting her skin on the line," recalled Omar Príncipe, current president of Bases Federadas, in conversation with Bichos de Campo. In those years, when the economic and political crisis began to worsen, millions of hectares of land were mortgaged and thousands of small and medium-sized farmers found themselves without the possibility of facing their debts. "After 1995, there were more than 12 million hectares mortgaged, mainly by the ...