The yerba mate and the usual injustice: the tsars take everything

By Ygor Sobol (*) Again the same thing. Another year in which yerba mate producers fight for the basics: a fair price for our work. We ask to get as close as possible to the 50 cents of dollar per kilo of green leaf, a figure that would allow us to continue working without losing silver. But the big mills, the so-called “weed-zares”, continue to run the business as if they were the owners of our lives. They do not want to pay what is right and, …