Hunger and Desperation: Argentina’s Puerto Iguazú Residents Unearth Chicken Meat to Eat

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Hunger is severely affecting the neediest families in Puerto Iguazú, an Argentine city that borders Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná State. The images are painful, cause outrage and sadness, watching so many children and women digging the pit where the chickens were buried following a seizure by the local City Hall to take home and cook meals.

After an operation conducted by the City last weekend in the neighborhood of Altos del Paraná, in which 1,200 boxes of chicken drumsticks of Argentine origin were seized and delivered to Senasa, the boxes were buried in a 2,000-hectare municipal property on Tuesday morning, November 17th. The goods were in poor condition and the Federal Force disposed of them.

As soon as the municipal truck arrived with the cargo, the local residents waited. They waited to be able to dig the pit and retrieve the boxes to take them home, as the photographs demonstrate.

The security forces failed to complete the seizure, these half-buried foods placed the population at risk of contamination and mass poisoning, given their poor condition.

Hours later, a group of 50 people, including children, came to the Tosquera property to dig up the soil in an effort to retrieve part of the goods to feed their children.

Source: Portal da Cidade

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