![Rodrigo Abd Margarita Mendez, front left, drinks mate as her friend Cristina Chamorro breastfeeds in a a home's outdoor kitchen in the Guaraní Indigenous community of Kaaguy Pora II, on the outskirts of Andresito, in Argentina's Misiones Province, the center of the world's maté production, Thursday, April 18, 2024. Yerba bate is found in almost every Argentine household. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/b43e7aac32a14d2db8772d22cc4b9684/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Margarita Mendez, front left, drinks mate as her friend Cristina Chamorro breastfeeds in a a home's outdoor kitchen in the Guaraní Indigenous community of Kaaguy Pora II, on the outskirts of Andresito, in Argentina's Misiones Province, the center of the world's maté production, Thursday, April 18, 2024. Yerba bate is found in almost every Argentine household. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
![Rodrigo Abd Workers load harvested yerba mate leaves on a truck in Andresito, in Argentina's Misiones Province, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. Beneath the earthy drink’s mythical quality is grueling work, first performed by Indigenous tribes on Jesuit settlements in what is now Paraguay and today by low-paid laborers known as “tareferos,” in the steamy grasslands of Argentina’s northeast Misiones Province, center of the world's maté production. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/9765f2064a594f148592b62f02eca3d2/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Workers load harvested yerba mate leaves on a truck in Andresito, in Argentina's Misiones Province, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. Beneath the earthy drink’s mythical quality is grueling work, first performed by Indigenous tribes on Jesuit settlements in what is now Paraguay and today by low-paid laborers known as “tareferos,” in the steamy grasslands of Argentina’s northeast Misiones Province, center of the world's maté production. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
![Rodrigo Abd Machetes of yerba mate foreman Antonio Francisco Pereyra lay inside his pick-up truck as he drives to deliver weekly payments to his crew in Andresito, in Argentina's Misiones province, Friday, April 19, 2024. For decades Argentina's government has supported the yerba mate industry with price controls and subsidies, but to fix Argentina's financial crisis, President Javier Milei seeks to scrap regulations affecting a range of markets, including yerba maté. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/214368e8056c47eea7d5eec1a4c5cb36/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Machetes of yerba mate foreman Antonio Francisco Pereyra lay inside his pick-up truck as he drives to deliver weekly payments to his crew in Andresito, in Argentina's Misiones province, Friday, April 19, 2024. For decades Argentina's government has supported the yerba mate industry with price controls and subsidies, but to fix Argentina's financial crisis, President Javier Milei seeks to scrap regulations affecting a range of markets, including yerba maté. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
![Rodrigo Abd Yerba mate leaves are tossed about inside a rotating oven, as a worker, left, spreads the dried leaves on a conveyor belt after they pass through the oven at the Andresito Cooperative, in Andresito, in Argentina's Misiones Province, Thursday, April 18, 2024. For decades Argentina's government has supported the yerba mate industry with price controls and subsidies, but to fix Argentina's financial crisis, President Javier Milei seeks to scrap regulations affecting a range of markets, including yerba maté. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/d898fb8c5f7744c9aa40f15910ba4372/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Yerba mate leaves are tossed about inside a rotating oven, as a worker, left, spreads the dried leaves on a conveyor belt after they pass through the oven at the Andresito Cooperative, in Andresito, in Argentina's Misiones Province, Thursday, April 18, 2024. For decades Argentina's government has supported the yerba mate industry with price controls and subsidies, but to fix Argentina's financial crisis, President Javier Milei seeks to scrap regulations affecting a range of markets, including yerba maté. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
![Rodrigo Abd Yerba mate producer Julio Petterson takes a work call at home where his daughter Kiara Isabella plays on a toy tractor in Andresito, in Argentina's Misiones Province, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. “We barely survived,” said Petterson, referring to policies that devastated the yerba mate industry in the 1990s. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/b3f697e718fd4139b04173c35bcc968f/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Yerba mate producer Julio Petterson takes a work call at home where his daughter Kiara Isabella plays on a toy tractor in Andresito, in Argentina's Misiones Province, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. “We barely survived,” said Petterson, referring to policies that devastated the yerba mate industry in the 1990s. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
![Rodrigo Abd Women arrange yerba mate plants inside a nursery in Andresito, in Argentina's Misiones province, Thursday, April 18, 2024. For decades Argentina's government has supported the industry with price controls and subsidies, but to fix Argentina's financial crisis, President Javier Milei seeks to scrap regulations affecting a range of markets, including yerba maté.(AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/c8fe52ac0687438bb40cdc5826ab5d9b/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Women arrange yerba mate plants inside a nursery in Andresito, in Argentina's Misiones province, Thursday, April 18, 2024. For decades Argentina's government has supported the industry with price controls and subsidies, but to fix Argentina's financial crisis, President Javier Milei seeks to scrap regulations affecting a range of markets, including yerba maté.(AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
![Rodrigo Abd Workers ride on their bags of harvested yerba mate in Andresito, in Argentina's Misiones Province, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. Beneath the earthy drink’s mythical quality is grueling work, first performed by Indigenous tribes on Jesuit settlements in what is now Paraguay and today by low-paid laborers known as “tareferos,” in the steamy grasslands of Argentina’s northeast Misiones Province, center of the world's maté production. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/a5f7284fb60649e286c2124474d0d7a3/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Workers ride on their bags of harvested yerba mate in Andresito, in Argentina's Misiones Province, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. Beneath the earthy drink’s mythical quality is grueling work, first performed by Indigenous tribes on Jesuit settlements in what is now Paraguay and today by low-paid laborers known as “tareferos,” in the steamy grasslands of Argentina’s northeast Misiones Province, center of the world's maté production. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
![Rodrigo Abd Morning dew moistens yerba mate leaves in Andresito, in Argentina’s northeast Misiones Province, Thursday, April 18, 2024. The dried leaves inside a gourd with hot water create a powerful elixir that has quenched South America’s thirst for caffeine and community for centuries. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/ac70c6dca2644058882260c058ca1379/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Morning dew moistens yerba mate leaves in Andresito, in Argentina’s northeast Misiones Province, Thursday, April 18, 2024. The dried leaves inside a gourd with hot water create a powerful elixir that has quenched South America’s thirst for caffeine and community for centuries. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
![Rodrigo Abd A girl plays under a monument of Andres Guacurarí, an Indigenous Guarani soldier who governed the Greater Province of the Misiones (1815 - 1819) in Andresito, in Argentina's Misiones Province, Thursday, April 18, 2024. Argentina's Misiones Province is the center of the world's maté production and was first harvested by Indigenous tribes. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/0c6dd09b85e54c0ea38f11522ead8902/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
A girl plays under a monument of Andres Guacurarí, an Indigenous Guarani soldier who governed the Greater Province of the Misiones (1815 - 1819) in Andresito, in Argentina's Misiones Province, Thursday, April 18, 2024. Argentina's Misiones Province is the center of the world's maté production and was first harvested by Indigenous tribes. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
![Rodrigo Abd Yerba mate foreman Antonio Francisco Pereyra drives with his four-year-old son Facundo under his arm, to deliver weekly payments to his crew in Andresito, in Argentina's Misiones province, Friday, April 19, 2024. For decades Argentina's government has supported the yerba mate industry with price controls and subsidies, but to fix Argentina's financial crisis, President Javier Milei seeks to scrap regulations affecting a range of markets, including yerba maté. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/565e0375ad8d4097aee9155e339d8135/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Yerba mate foreman Antonio Francisco Pereyra drives with his four-year-old son Facundo under his arm, to deliver weekly payments to his crew in Andresito, in Argentina's Misiones province, Friday, April 19, 2024. For decades Argentina's government has supported the yerba mate industry with price controls and subsidies, but to fix Argentina's financial crisis, President Javier Milei seeks to scrap regulations affecting a range of markets, including yerba maté. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
![Rodrigo Abd A worker unloads harvested yerba mate at the Andresito Cooperative in Andresito, in Argentina's Misiones Province, Thursday, April 18, 2024. For decades Argentina's government has supported the industry with price controls and subsidies, but to fix Argentina's financial crisis, President Javier Milei seeks to scrap regulations affecting a range of markets, including yerba maté. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/e1d500707f814518a8d594fa7b878112/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
A worker unloads harvested yerba mate at the Andresito Cooperative in Andresito, in Argentina's Misiones Province, Thursday, April 18, 2024. For decades Argentina's government has supported the industry with price controls and subsidies, but to fix Argentina's financial crisis, President Javier Milei seeks to scrap regulations affecting a range of markets, including yerba maté. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
![Rodrigo Abd A road in Andresito, in Argentina's Misiones Province, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. The steamy grasslands of Argentina’s northeast Misiones Province is the center of the world's maté production. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/fedf28adb3d944cc94cffa35b0da50c1/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
A road in Andresito, in Argentina's Misiones Province, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. The steamy grasslands of Argentina’s northeast Misiones Province is the center of the world's maté production. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
![Rodrigo Abd A worker carries a bags of dried yerba mate, called yerba "canchada," at the Andresito Cooperative in Andresito, in Argentina's Misiones province, Thursday, April 18, 2024. For decades Argentina's government has supported the industry with price controls and subsidies, but to fix Argentina's financial crisis, President Javier Milei seeks to scrap regulations affecting a range of markets, including yerba maté. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/1d0d64dda702474f9a78195877de3845/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
A worker carries a bags of dried yerba mate, called yerba "canchada," at the Andresito Cooperative in Andresito, in Argentina's Misiones province, Thursday, April 18, 2024. For decades Argentina's government has supported the industry with price controls and subsidies, but to fix Argentina's financial crisis, President Javier Milei seeks to scrap regulations affecting a range of markets, including yerba maté. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
![Rodrigo Abd Leonardo Favio Correa carries yerba mate to a truck in Andresito, in Argentina’s northeast Misiones Province, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. Beneath the earthy drink’s mythical quality is grueling work, first performed by Indigenous tribes on Jesuit settlements in what is now Paraguay and today by low-paid laborers known as “tareferos,” in the steamy grasslands of Argentina’s northeast Misiones Province, center of the world's maté production. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/60ff9e6aec9e4532800ecb9d99fe68f2/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Leonardo Favio Correa carries yerba mate to a truck in Andresito, in Argentina’s northeast Misiones Province, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. Beneath the earthy drink’s mythical quality is grueling work, first performed by Indigenous tribes on Jesuit settlements in what is now Paraguay and today by low-paid laborers known as “tareferos,” in the steamy grasslands of Argentina’s northeast Misiones Province, center of the world's maté production. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
![Rodrigo Abd Wearing an Argentine soccer jersey, Fabian Acuna counts his weekly payment for harvesting yerba mate outside his home where the foreman drove to drop off his payment in Andresito, in Argentina's Misiones Province, Friday, April 19, 2024. Rich or poor, left or right, fan of Argentine soccer club Boca Juniors or its fierce rival River Plate, Argentines run on maté. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/3bcf706c0d5c4b28a3f94944f9b751bb/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Wearing an Argentine soccer jersey, Fabian Acuna counts his weekly payment for harvesting yerba mate outside his home where the foreman drove to drop off his payment in Andresito, in Argentina's Misiones Province, Friday, April 19, 2024. Rich or poor, left or right, fan of Argentine soccer club Boca Juniors or its fierce rival River Plate, Argentines run on maté. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
![Rodrigo Abd Workers wrap harvested yerba mate into a hauling bag in Andresito, in Argentina's Misiones province, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. Beneath the earthy drink’s mythical quality is grueling work, first performed by Indigenous tribes on Jesuit settlements in what is now Paraguay and today by low-paid laborers known as “tareferos,” in the steamy grasslands of Argentina’s northeast Misiones Province, center of the world's maté production. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/cb5beaaeee3a4310baec91eb28d224a5/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Workers wrap harvested yerba mate into a hauling bag in Andresito, in Argentina's Misiones province, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. Beneath the earthy drink’s mythical quality is grueling work, first performed by Indigenous tribes on Jesuit settlements in what is now Paraguay and today by low-paid laborers known as “tareferos,” in the steamy grasslands of Argentina’s northeast Misiones Province, center of the world's maté production. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
![Rodrigo Abd Workers carry bags of dried yerba mate, called yerba "canchada," at the Andresito Cooperative in Andresito, in Argentina's Misiones province, Thursday, April 18, 2024. For decades Argentina's government has supported the industry with price controls and subsidies, but to fix Argentina's financial crisis, President Javier Milei seeks to scrap regulations affecting a range of markets, including yerba maté. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/3c62235e13af4d48a292cad63d4953bd/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Workers carry bags of dried yerba mate, called yerba "canchada," at the Andresito Cooperative in Andresito, in Argentina's Misiones province, Thursday, April 18, 2024. For decades Argentina's government has supported the industry with price controls and subsidies, but to fix Argentina's financial crisis, President Javier Milei seeks to scrap regulations affecting a range of markets, including yerba maté. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
![Rodrigo Abd A worker operates an oven that dries yerba mate at the Andresito Cooperative, in Andresito, in Argentina's Misiones, Thursday, April 18, 2024. For decades Argentina's government has supported the industry with price controls and subsidies, but to fix Argentina's financial crisis, President Javier Milei seeks to scrap regulations affecting a range of markets, including yerba maté. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/8912d71089e7451598f69c3065f11648/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
A worker operates an oven that dries yerba mate at the Andresito Cooperative, in Andresito, in Argentina's Misiones, Thursday, April 18, 2024. For decades Argentina's government has supported the industry with price controls and subsidies, but to fix Argentina's financial crisis, President Javier Milei seeks to scrap regulations affecting a range of markets, including yerba maté. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
![Rodrigo Abd Harvested yerba mate leaves are unloaded at the Andresito Cooperative in Andresito, in Argentina's Misiones Province, Thursday, April 18, 2024. For decades Argentina's government has supported the industry with price controls and subsidies, but to fix Argentina's financial crisis, President Javier Milei seeks to scrap regulations affecting a range of markets, including yerba maté. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/b2600d49119d4d19a61d93b1d1f5d094/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Harvested yerba mate leaves are unloaded at the Andresito Cooperative in Andresito, in Argentina's Misiones Province, Thursday, April 18, 2024. For decades Argentina's government has supported the industry with price controls and subsidies, but to fix Argentina's financial crisis, President Javier Milei seeks to scrap regulations affecting a range of markets, including yerba maté. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)