"They are murderers": the distress of a Corrientes producer whose 11 cows were shot dead on the coast of the Uruguay River

In the Corrientes department of Santo Tomé, very close to the border with Brazil, the producer and fencer Rubén Oscar “Nego” Herrera is going through one of the hardest moments of his life. In a field known as Las Pérez, which he has been renting for two years on the coast of the Uruguay River, a group of Brazilian criminals shot dead eleven pregnant cows from his herd of 200 animals, several of them about to give birth. Only one was left wounded in the lot. This is not the first time he has suffered an attack of this kind. In the last year, he has already lost at least 30 heads of cattle. “I am devastated by this vandalism by Brazilians who cross in barges, kill, butcher and take the meat,” he told LA NACION with great impotence. “I am looking for fields to go to, you can’t keep more animals here because they kill them,” he added, his voice laden with anger and fatigue. The attack occurred last Sunday afternoon. According to the producer, the criminals crossed the river from the ...