Field DispatchAcarigua and Araure, Portuguesa
Dispatch XXIII. Portuguesa: Twenty Kilometres Before the Silo
Every dispatch since June has counted what fell. This one counts what has to move: close to a million tonnes of white maize off the Portuguesa plain between late September and mid November, through a price that has not been set, a road that has not been repaired, and a grid that cannot promise a drying plant twenty four consecutive hours of current.
Every dispatch since June has counted what fell. This one counts what has to move: close to a million tonnes of white maize off the Portuguesa plain between late September and mid November, through a price that has not been set, a road that has not been repaired, and a grid that cannot promise a drying plant twenty four consecutive hours of current.