Héctor Medina, president of Union Number 1 of the Huachipato steel company, pointed out in Cooperativa that the eventual closure of the factory «for us is like an earthquake with a tsunami», since, «the region is going to darken and we are going to get even more impoverish, we mean a lot to the GDP and we are going to increase the unemployment statistics”, emphasizing the 22 thousand jobs that would be lost. Likewise, he emphasized that it was a situation that the Government could foresee, because “we did a lot of lobbying, we explained the value” of Chinese steel ad nauseam.
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