Argentine Farmers Resume
Strike Against Export
Tax Hikes
Farmers in Argentina
resumed their blockade
of rural highways
Saturday against export
tax hikes on their crops
after talks with the
government failed to end
a 17-day-old strike.
A leader of one of four
striking farm groups
said in a radio report
that the failure to
reach a breakthrough in
talks that ended early
Saturday has jeopardized
their attendance at a
second round called by
the government for
Monday.
Farm workers resumed
highway blockades across
several rural provinces
including Entre Rios,
Cordoba, Santa Fe and
Chaco. The blockades
have cut off food supply
in most supermarkets.
Argentina's four big
farming groups on Friday
announced the end to a
temporary truce in a
16-day strike against
export tax increases to
facilitate the dialogue
initiated by Argentine
President Cristina
Fernandez.
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