2023-09-21 23:39:19
Pablo Caram, Mayor of Artigas (National Party)
The Mayor of Artigas, Pablo Caram (National Party), had appeared little on the political scene in recent months, and he returned with everything with some inflammatory statements that gave something to talk about and generated an ocean of criticism and repudiation.
In an interview broadcast on Thursday, Mayor Caram relativized and even seemed to make an apology for child labor in his department. According to him, there are minors on tobacco plantations, something he sees as “normal.”
“The family nucleus works in tobacco: the son, the daughter-in-law, some grandchildren. They work on the property“said the right-wing politician. When asked if there are children working, Caram responded: “Yes, but normal. It is much better to see a guy working than with his cell phone.”. Later, he said that his father forced him to work when he was a minor, something that he does not consider a “disgrace,” understanding that the only thing he “dignifies” is work, “not anything else.”
It also established a false dichotomy between child labor and drug consumption in these populations. “Sometimes I think that’s why we have so many drugged out kids, which is unfortunate.”he snapped. “You see them in front of the high school and they don’t go to class,” lamented the Artiguense mayor and historical leader of the National Party.
Reactions to Caram’s words: “inadmissible” and “a shame”
One of the first to profess his open repudiation of Pablo Caram’s statements was the Minister of Labor and Social Security, Pablo Mieres (also leader of the Independent Party), who published on the social network those unacceptable expressions! We have just arranged, together with the Labor Inspector Tomás Teijeiro, to send a team of CAT and CGT inspectors coordinating with INAU to tobacco production establishments in Artigas”.
For his part, the senator of the National Party, Óscar Andrade, also rejected Caram’s assertions: “In the town where I grew up it was always an old custom, you didn’t finish leaving the tunic and the bow and you already did the harvest.” [de] peach, grape and apple. Children and women were paid half. “The place for childhood is not stowed in a chamber, nor on a plantation.”
Along the same lines, it was stated president of INAU, Pablo Abdala, who maintained that “there are no two opinions that the work of minors under 15 years of age is illegal in any circumstance, whatever the nature of the work.”
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