Given the minister’s own statement EconomyAlex Contreras Miranda, that there was no doubt that the country is in recession, the footwear microbusinessman and former mayor of the El Porvenir district, Víctor Rebaza Benites, asked the central government to implement the Buy a MYPERÚ program as soon as possible to alleviate the crisis that is hitting to micro and small businesses in the aforementioned sector.
“We have already been feeling that recession since the beginning of the year, where the production and sales and now there are fewer jobs. The worrying thing is that demand in the domestic market is increasingly lower, people have less purchasing power and in the footwear mypes sector unemployment has grown,” lamented Rebaza.
In that sense, he asked the central government support with state purchases.
“It is an immediate measure that would mean a lifeline for the mypes of footwear,” he said.
He added that the recession It is a new blow to the sector.
“It is one more blow that we have been suffering since 2017 due to the El Niño phenomenon Global, due to the coronavirus and, now that we are reactivating, conquering new markets in Bolivia, Ecuador, the country is suffering an economic recession,” commented Víctor Rebaza.
As if that were not enough, he expressed that to this crisis situation is added the unsafety which causes the high crime rate in the region and the country as a whole.
“Leather and footwear businessmen, like in other sectors, are victims of extortion, there are Criminal organizations who demand payment of quotas and threaten death to those who refuse. This discourages entrepreneurs, micro and small footwear entrepreneurs from continuing to reinvest,” said Rebaza Benites.
Source: Larepublica
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