The leader Marcelo Carbonell warns that in Paso de Los Libres and other areas along the Uruguay River "there is

The word "abandonment" is not part of the personal vocabulary of the Corrientes producer Marcelo Cabonell, as he himself is a great example of fighting to overcome a serious adversity: in an accident he lost both legs and yet he did not give up, he continued with his activity. But the word "abandonment," sadly, is part of his daily management as a rural leader. He stumbles upon it when he sees that many of the problems of the Corrientes countryside are ignored by politics. Also because many producers in his district fall prey to rural crime and end up "abandoning" their own fields. Many times, politics represents an obstacle to production, not so much by action as by omission. For example, in the province of Corrientes, which is the fourth most important at the cattle level, ruralists denounce that there are hundreds of hectares abandoned due to the rise of the crime of cattle rustling that has recently taken over many departments that border the Uruguay River, in the area on the ...