(Exclusive) coronavirus: Last Alentejo farmers leave Argentina.
The last twelve elements of a group of Portuguese, Alentejo farmers and wives, leave Argentina without any help from the Portuguese State.
The last twelve elements of a group of 45 Portuguese, mostly Alentejo, who were held in Argentina, just embarking on Buenos Aires in a company plane LATAM Airlines Brazil, to São Paulo and then to Lisbon.
The group consists of farmers and their wives, who traveled to the Argentine capital, to visit the Expoagro, the most important agro-industrial exhibition in the open of that South American country, an organized trip by the Farmers Association of Baixo Alentejo (fATHER), based in Beja.
"Men of the land" left Portugal on 6 March, a Spanish company Iberia flight, to Madrid and then towards Buenos Aires. The return, by the same route, I was scheduled for yesterday, but it was canceled.
Gradually some of the farmers "opened the purse strings" and were managing to buy tickets and thus ensure the return to Portugal.
The Portuguese contacted the Embassy of Portugal in the Argentine capital, to seek help in order to achieve a solution to the repatriation but the answer, second Francisco Palma, presidente da AABA, received by an employee "was null and left us to our fate delivered. Earned us the agency that dealt with the journey that has not abandoned us ", justified.
"Iberia is ruled out of the situation and we paid and expensive tickets in LATAM. Either that or stay in Argentina ", leaving a thank you to those who helped: "They made more journalists than all the people of the Embassy and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs", sustained Francisco Palma.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
