2024-05-13 10:34:22
Between April and May, the basic basket stood at 1,830.87 pesos, increasing to 20.60 pesos, compared to a previous month, recorded the National Alliance of Small Merchants (Anpec).
When carrying out a study in 200 points in the country, it was revealed that the products that increased the most per kilo were jalapeno pepper (26.58%), which went from 30.28 to 38.32; poblano chile (22.52%), which increased from 46.87 to 57.43; avocado (6.89%), which rose from 55.68 to 59.92; saladet tomato (6.09%), which grew from 29.03 to 20.79, and egg (5.31%), which went from 50.82 to 53.51 pesos.
Cuauhtémoc Rivera, president of the Anpec, He highlighted that since the beginning of the year, the authorities were seeking to establish a narrative of a drop in prices, “which simply did not hold up” and now the basic basket increased between 1 and 2% in just a few weeks.
He added that the rebound is very evident, “this is explained by many reasons: the increase in gasoline, the effects of the drought and the guerrathe facts of violence that lock the population in their homes, highway extortions and floor charges, the decrease in purchasing power in the face of a hot economy and the lack of effective public policies that strengthen popular consumption and strengthen national agricultural production.
He said that in this inflation there is a sustained increase in the cost of products like cocoa and sugar.
He gave as an example the rise in food prices. sugar, since now a 50 kilo bag is worth about 1,534.66 pesos and at this time last year it cost 1,276.80 pesos.
“Which results in an increase of 257.86, 20.19% more. For its part, the standard package of sugar sells on average for 1,255.64 and in April of last year it had an average cost of 1,55.17, resulting in a increment of 200.47 pesos, which represents
an increase of 18.99%”.
As for cocoa, during the first quarter of the year an increase of more than 129% was recorded worldwide, which heralds a severe increase by the end of the year, mainly in the cocoa segments. chocolate shop, confectionery y bread making.
Rivera said that these increases have to do in part with the increase in gasoline, which during the first week of May had no incentives in the case of diesel, leaving it on the same commercial level as Premium gasoline and reduced the subsidy for Magna gasoline. leaving their prices per liter as follows: Magna 23.60, diesel 24.60 and premium 25.60.
“This measure occurs during electoral times when traditionally governments refrain from changing the rudder into the voters’ pockets to avoid a punishing vote; However, it surely corresponds to the fall in oil funds in the first quarter of the year, which places the country in a situation of greater energy dependence, since national production does not correspond to its consumption, so it will be necessary to continue importing hydrocarbons. ”said Rivera.
In other words, a “gasolinazo” has just been inflicted on the national economy that is already impacting the prices of market products on the rise, strengthening linflationary trend on going.
On the other hand, he accused that the withdrawal of banking terminals, will promote informality. And many merchants decided to remove them as a form of collection, in the midst of the dispute over a commission that they claim is for the bank.
He clarified that these charges are made by the bank pay with card, and it is not the merchants who keep this money. “70% of operations are carried out with cash.”
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2024-05-13 10:34:22