Farmers fear leftist return in Argentina

[Judi Lynn]

By Sonia AVALOS (AFP) 1 hour ago

Record grain harvests were a much needed boon to Argentine agribusiness this year, but farmers here see trouble ahead if leftist Peronist candidate Alberto Fernandez wins Sunday's presidential election.

"They're coming for us," Deniel Perez says darkly as he gazes across a vast expanse of grain fields in Ramallo, the lush agricultural heartland of Buenos Aires province.

Peronists "will come for us in the countryside for sure," said Perez, "because it's the only real money they can call on" to help lift Argentina out of crisis -- particularly its growing number of urban poor.

Farmers like Perez found an ally in President Mauricio Macri when he scrapped taxes on exports of corn and wheat following his election in 2015.

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[tirebiter]

1. Person was a Nazi ally

FDR just got him to be fairly discrete about it. A number of Nazis went there after the war. Started one of the first factory’s turning out jets which they sold to a young Israel.

[mopinko]

2. i dont think the farmers need to worry, now that twitler has f'd up world trade.

they absolutely stand to benefit.
i hope people dont base their votes on the backwash of u.s. trade policy.