Argentina: Farmers May Block Roads Again

By Larry Habegger | Permalink | No Comments | May 1st, 2008 | Trackback

For three weeks in March irate farmers blockaded roads and cut off meat and grain supplies to supermarkets in major cities, including Buenos Aires, but called off their protests when the government agreed to negotiate with them over the tax increase that spawned the protests. Little progress has been made and farmers vowed to set up roadblocks again when the deadline for the talks expired May 2. If the protests resume at the level they were in March and the government refuses to budge, as seems to be its position, food supplies could be cut short again and road travel could be disrupted.

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