THEY CLAIM THE PAYMENT OF AID TO THE VILLAGE'S TOMATO, 7,4 MILLIONS OF EUROS OVER THE YEARS 2010, 2011 And 2012.

“We can't take it anymore. Our refrigerators are empty and we don't play with our children's food.". This is how forceful the eight village women expressed themselves., after requesting to meet with the president of the government, have decided to start an indefinite hunger strike in front of the headquarters of the presidency of the Government of the Canary Islands.

The situation is unsustainable, declares Beatriz Sosa, one of the farmers who has joined the strike. We are aware of the hardness of the decision we have made, our health is not a game, but we have no other alternative before a Government that despises us.

The Canary Islands export tomato sector is going through one of its worst moments, to the point that, as the employers have been denouncing, The sentence may be issued shortly due to the repeated failures of the Governments of Spain and the Canary Islands..

We have made investments in modernizing our structures under the Canary Islands Rural Development Program, since the year 2010. We have supported the credits, but the interests for the Government's delay are destroying our economy and endangering our families, explains Sosa.

The director of the presidential cabinet, Nicolas Ojeda, attended to the eight women and promised to investigate the status of the payment orders by giving them information in a few days. For this reason, He asked them to delay the strike until they had the information.

On the other hand, The women's group responded that they have been waiting for two and a half years and they have come this far.. They will not stop the hunger strike until the problem is solved, even if their health depends on it, they manifested.

We come from a fighting people who have fought for all injustices, men and women. and today, just like Meliana in the La Aldea lawsuit, We women are here to prevent the ruin and eviction of this town, Sosa declares.

The Government of the Canary Islands owes 7,4 million euros to the tomato sector of La Aldea. Amount that corresponds, a part to aid per hectare of the Tomato Strategic Plan, another part to aid for the modernization of farms from the Canary Islands Rural Development Program, and the third part to transportation compensation. The latter we remember that has passed from 70% to the 26%.