Panorama. Given the blockade of roads, speculation grows in the south of the country. The most affected are Cusco and Puerto Maldonado.
Domestic gas shortages and speculation persist in several cities in southern Peru. Despite the fact that South Pan American It is free of blockages, the tanker trucks from Ica do not arrive with the same regularity.
According to the president of the Arequipa Tap Association, Magno Salas, the White City has seven distributors and its stock reaches 30%, demand exceeds supply. Salas attributes it to a deficit in transportation, The tankers do not dare to return to the roads for fear of the reactivation of the protests.
There are queues as this media verified yesterday in the district of paucarpata. There were more than 30 people in the lines. Several of them housewives who, given the shortage of previous days, resorted to coal and firewood to prepare food. In the case of Arequipa, prices remain stable: they fluctuate around S/50 for a 10-kilo ball. The same does not happen in the city of Tacna where the delivery service is charged up to S/77. The excuse is the same, there is not enough gas.
However, where they have a hard time is in Puerto Maldonado, Madre de Dios. In this jungle region, the product oscillates between S/230 and S/300. The speculators make their own in the face of the blockades on the Interoceanic highway. The road is taken over by informal miners at nine points, which prevents the entry of cargo transportation to supply the markets. Households discarded gas and have opted for firewood.
Cusco is another of the regions without gas supplies. The distributors have not had fuel for more than 15 days. Yesterday the queues formed in the packaging plants located on the outskirts of the city.
Modesto Cajigas is the president of the Gas Distributors Association of Cusco. The leader reported that they sell the ball for S/57. He criticizes the speculators who hoard four balls and then resell them for 200 soles.
The leader hopes that today a shipment of LPG will enter the distributors. He does not rule out an increase to S / 70 for the next few days. “We haven’t worked for 15 days, we have to pay the staff, we are losing,” he justified the increase. In some homes in Cusco, the use of charcoal and firewood is also chosen..
The numbers
S / 300 comes to cost the gas balloon in Madre de Dios, whose roads are blocked.
S/70 will cost when the supply is regularized.
Source: Larepublica
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