Calabria is hungry. Farmers, truck drivers and fishermen are protesting. They do it on the street, they do it in anger. Behind every worker on the barricades there is a family that no longer knows how to make a living. And behind every family, there are people who suffer. We live badly in the present and fear for the future. But not only in Calabria. It’s like this in Puglia, in Basilicata, in Sicily. It will be like this from today also in Campania and throughout a South that is still little covered by the national media, as said by the farmers who have been leaving the countryside for days to go with tractors to protest.
Even Demetrio Metallo, an entrepreneur for half a century in the fuel and tourism sector, does not accept silence: «It’s like trying to hide dust under the carpet. The problem is serious but cannot be solved in Calabria. The solution must be sought on the Rome-Brussels axis.” Yet, for days the engine of the South has no longer been running at full speed. There are blockades in Melfi, where the largest production plant in the south is located, there are barricades in Foggia and throughout the Capitanata area. And there is a protest in Taranto by the former Ilva which is blocking the refinery and the production engines of three regions.
The confirmation came from the Eni press office: «The demonstrations underway since 12 October at the Taranto refinery continue to determine the blockage of incoming and outgoing logistical flows, with increasing impacts on the distribution of fuels destined for the Puglia airports, the network of Enilive service stations and other companies, including supplies to essential services and public utilities, law enforcement agencies, firefighters, public administrations, public transport and railway operators».
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