are entrepreneurs. Made garments and handicrafts in his studio-home. Thursday at midnight move in groups or remises loaded with trash bags with the fruit of their work and are dedicated to selling to retailers throughout Argentina and neighboring countries. Welcome to the fair of La Salada.
is impossible to be in favor of micro-and anti-La Salada. Is it not hypocritical to punish the informality of the excluded when they were sure of a way to formality?
The social phenomenon of the Salty often pursued with simplistic prejudices:
1. That is one of the largest illegal trade fairs Latin America.
defined as illegal the informality of the vulnerable in society, as are most of the peddlers of La Salada, is tell them how to be poor is illegal, de facto offenders. A hopeless situation.
2. Sold stolen goods.
a dangerous simplification. I traveled home workshops, across the country in which manufactures the clothing sold in La Salada. I've seen the pride of the children who help their parents to regain their dignity in the work of their hands.
3. That fake brands.
True, there are trademark counterfeiting. It is a matter for resolution, but not jerky police operations and media in which confiscates merchandise. Would sit and think better solutions that do not kill the activity that occurs there.
4. Which operates in black, they do not bill for tickets or shopping.
How many times we have to ask the ticket or invoice in restaurants or shops in affluent neighborhoods? Many clothing stores offer discounts if you pay in cash ... of course without an invoice. But when the poor do we accuse and condemn.
What is Salt? In 2002, during the worst crisis in Argentina, La Salada grew through the efforts of thousands of merchants. Initially selling their wares in the open, now generate a lot of confusion among public policy makers, instead of working with this success and help to sort and integrate it into the formal economy, tight.
The three main exhibitions are organized and taxed taxes. Urkupiña called Punta Mogotes and Ocean. Each owner pays as expenses, and clean restrooms Urkupiña that cost $ 1 to use a new first aid room, a machinery exhibition hall, a chapel and an internal radio.
La Salada has stories like that of Walter and Carmen. They came from Bolivia, with virtually nothing. They settled in a villa, because "it's cheaper, do not pay electricity or water." They worked from the beginning in the Ribera, "another show" outdoors without formal organization, and more precarious, to collect the $ 8,000 needed to leave the villa.
Why $ 8,000? For a monthly rent of $ 1000, workshop and machinery. They succeeded. Now, in addition, average rental place in Urkupiña.
La Salada also involves risk. Monica, who with her husband knitting sweaters for children, told us: "You never know how much you sell, if rains do not sell anything, you still need to pay the remise and risk, and when it's hot as last year, not for sale" .
risky workers and entrepreneurs is what this country needs. If we paco we are discouraging and encouraging violence in the villages. Most carnies are living below the poverty line or highly vulnerable. But some have not.
will be important to find a solution that does not endorse the escape of those who can already afford. It will also be important not to pursue the vulnerable. As a society, we must understand that in many cases, informality is not an option and that those in debt are not excluded but those who are lucky to be within the system.
must learn to live with this informality and find ways that formality accompanies the growth of those who, through their own efforts, have increasingly abandoned poverty.
Santiago Montoya La Salada that shows us not want to see the entrepreneurial spirit of those who have fewer resources and more difficulties. The Government should work to integrate the system not to marginalize them further.
The peddlers of the Salty perform an activity they consider worthy. They are not selling cocaine and ephedrine, but paco or goods that people want. Never work and not depend on handouts or plans. There are NGOs doing charity. The fairground has no time to beg, work to bring to its Argentina forward.
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About Wikipedia Prat Gay, Alfonso Prat Gay
(Ciudad de Buenos Aires, November 24, 1965) is an Argentine politician belonging to the Civic Coalition. Bachelor of Economics degree from the Universidad Católica Argentina is currently a candidate in legislative elections in 2009 by the City of Buenos Aires by the Civic and Social Agreement (ACYS) [1].
graduate studied in the United States and worked for JP Morgan in New York, London and Buenos Aires. [2] He was president of the Central Bank of Argentina [3] between December 2002 and September 2004 during the presidency of Eduardo Duhalde and Kirchner. It describes itself as Keynesian.
Mario Cafiero, a former member of ARI, reported that the entry of Prat-Gay "had as its object cover everything that happened around the reserve and the contingent repo agreement, made in the JP Morgan was seriously committed" and involved an immediate agreement with the IMF and compensation to banks for the asymmetric pesification. The former ARI Graciela Ocaña, current Minister of Health of Argentina, recalled that the Special Commission of Inquiry on Leak of Foreign Exchange issued a report that included Prat Gay in a list of people who had turned silver exterior. The current candidate would have turned $ 786 000, despite the existing ban. [5]
In an interview with the newspaper Página 12, Prat Gay said: "[Ocaña I] reported in 2003 by evader, I took the trouble to ask the AFIP AFIP was issued and told me I had overpaid, was a media report and do not know if it was not until a proof of love for Kirchner ", [6] in the same interview referred to the claim of Cafiero," was an indictment on those responsible for the yard, in 2001 there was in the country and bad I can be responsible for the yard "
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