Aquaculture farmers, farmers, women from processing plants in the states of Sinaloa, Baja California Sonora, Nayarit, Veracruz, Tamaulipas and Colima They arrived in Mexico City to express their disagreement with the entry of Ecuadorian shrimp.
In an interview for Debate, Michel Padilla, producer and manager of the Ahome Producers Associationreported that yesterday (Tuesday) they went to the offices of the National Customs Agency of Mexicowhere they received a committee of eight people, where they only gave them bad news.
“The protection we had for stop shrimp importshas been suspended, they open borders and for this reason we showed up in the morning (Wednesday) at the Government Palace, before the morning, but they did not receive us,” he shared.
Sinaloan aquaculturists and others in contingents in CDMX demand the entry of Ecuadorian shrimp. Photo: David Ortega
According to Michel Padilla, this forced them to go in contingents to the Ministry of the Interior. He indicated that a committee of eleven producers was received and is meeting within the secretariat.
These eleven producers are aquaculture farmers, offshore bay fishermen, representing everyone in the country. “We are waiting for them to leave the meeting, to see what they tell us,” he reported.
Protest by aquaculturists from Sinaloa and several states of the country in front of the Ministry of the Interior. / Photo: David Ortega
Since yesterday it was warned that aquaculturists would take over the Secretary of the Interior, Senasica and the National Customs Agency of Mexico.
Six years working for the El Debate publishing house in Culiacán, Sinaloa and Mexico City. With experience in covering the health sector, political parties, the presidency, marches and demonstrations, universities and academic sources, science, security, street stories, city figures, culture and entertainment. As a correspondent in Mexico City, I cover all news of national relevance, as well as various topics of interest to the Tercer Piso section, information published in the printed edition of the newspaper and on the debate.com.mx site. Contribution to the company’s digital content with live broadcasts for the Facebook platform on the EL DEBATE account. Until now, in my time at EL DEBATE, I have managed to obtain the 2018 National Journalism Award in the interview category, the 2015 Journalism and Competitiveness Award awarded by the Council for the Economic Development of Sinaloa (Codesin) for my collaboration in the work journalistic “Profit from public property” by journalist Luis Enrique Moreno. I was also awarded a scholarship by the Ibero-American University of Mexico City in its journalistic specialization program Press and Democracy (PRENDE) 2017 and by the Center for Economic Research and Teaching, AC (CIDE) in its Diploma in Investigative Journalism 2019. I am a graduate from the Bachelor’s Degree in Communication and Journalism from the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
