The entry of products that were dammed on the Alóag-Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas road due to road closures allowed the food supply in Quito to increase this Thursday the 30th.
In the capital, there are 54 markets and fairs. Víctor Dávila, director of markets for the Municipality of Quito, estimated that the supply was 70% this morning.
He indicated that fruits, green bananas, and vegetables arrived at the wholesale markets in the south and in the San Roque market in the center, which has favored a better supply and also that prices, in some cases, have risen. are regulating.
From the San Roque market it is distributed to retail markets such as San Francisco and Central, in the center of the city, and in the north such as Iñaquito and Santa Clara.
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After a report presented by each of the market administrators, in Quito there was a 70% supply, including white onion, paiteña, corn, lemon, peas, beans and tomato. With more quantity of this last product, the price has been declining.
30% of products, added the official, that do not arrive are from the central Sierra, such as herbs, coriander, parsley, which come from the provinces of Tungurahua and Cotopaxi.
Due to the attempt to reach the capital, problems had arisen such as truck tire punctures.
Dávila asked the Pichincha Police Department to carry out price control operations from the wholesale markets and, based on that, also from the retailers.
The opening hours of the markets are generally from 07:00 to 17:00, with the exception of some, which are located in the center, which close at 15:00.
Although the food supply has improved, acquiring a gas cylinder for domestic use has become a difficulty. People lining up from early hours to buy it or asking on social networks if someone knew where they could get it had been the trend of the last few days.
With the end of the strike, which this Thursday reached its 18th day, it is expected that this will be regularized in the next few hours.
Iván Cartagena, president of the Pichincha Gas Distributors Association, assured that there was no such fuel. In that province, there are some 420 distributors and some 600 vans that deliver gas in different sectors.
Cartagena argued that the bottling plants do not have stock in the capital.
He stated that direct sales to the public were channeled through collection centers, which generated a massive presence of people.
That mechanism, in his opinion, deepened the shortage because they, as distributors, are only given 30 cylinders, which quickly run out in the neighborhoods.
In the second week of the strike, transactions in markets, stores and supermarkets on the Coast fell by 3% and in the Sierra by 20%.
The problem, he explained, is that the tank trucks that left Esmeraldas, due to the closure of roads, cannot enter the packaging plants.
He said that, despite the announcement by the indigenous movement that the passage of gas, among other products, was going to be allowed, it has not been fulfilled.
“The desperation of the people is capitalized and they are right,” said Cartagena.
Regarding the prices, when directly marketing the gas, he said that there were infiltrators who later sold it informally and illegally at speculative values, as they go to stores, greengrocers, tricycles, as well as to private vehicles.
People walking is another scenario that was seen this morning due to the impact on the normal operation of public transport.
Some routes have had to be modified in order to avoid the closures that have been placed on roads or the hours of service provision have been reduced, as well as the number of units.
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Jorge Yánez, who is president of the Union of Urban Transport Operators of Quito, pointed out that there have been attacks on transport units with the breaking of windshields and glass.
For Yánez, the losses due to not being able to work normally exceed $5 million as a result of the mobilizations. That organization has 3,200 units that completely cover the city.
In addition to private cooperative transportation, the Municipality of Quito also manages two systems: the Trolleybus and the Ecovía, which include trunk lines and feeders.
In general, there has been a municipal operation at 75% due to closures at some stops. This mainly in the surroundings of the House of Ecuadorian Culture, where hundreds of indigenous people have gathered, and in the historic center, near the Government Palace, for marches and concentrations.
The south of the city has also been affected in urban transport by the placement of tires that have been burned, along with other flammable materials.
In total there are 250 units. Daily there are 190 to 200 units in the Trolleybus and in the Ecovía, according to municipal information. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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