Argentina farm strike turns violent
- added June 14, 2008
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- Egnatius212
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A three-month standoff between the Argentine government and farmers over export taxes turned violent Saturday.
Agentine military police clash with farmers who staged a road blockade to protest a controversial export tax.
Local reports said there were several injuries and 18 arrests, including Alfredo De Angeli, a farm union leader who has been one of the most outspoken critics of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's export tax.
Military police scuffled with farmers as they tried to remove them from a road that protesters had blocked with their trucks.
Protesters responded by throwing rocks at police and burning large truck tires in the road. Thick clouds of black smoke could be seen for miles.
Scenes of baton-wielding police in riot gear carrying struggling protesters away in trucks were broadcast live around the country.
The clashes took place in the farming community of Gualeguaychu, a stronghold for the protesters, about 124 miles (200 kilometers) north of Buenos Aires.
Agentine military police clash with farmers who staged a road blockade to protest a controversial export tax.
Local reports said there were several injuries and 18 arrests, including Alfredo De Angeli, a farm union leader who has been one of the most outspoken critics of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's export tax.
Military police scuffled with farmers as they tried to remove them from a road that protesters had blocked with their trucks.
Protesters responded by throwing rocks at police and burning large truck tires in the road. Thick clouds of black smoke could be seen for miles.
Scenes of baton-wielding police in riot gear carrying struggling protesters away in trucks were broadcast live around the country.
The clashes took place in the farming community of Gualeguaychu, a stronghold for the protesters, about 124 miles (200 kilometers) north of Buenos Aires.
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- Egnatius212
- 3 months ago
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The year is 2008. The nation is in political turmoil. Food and fuel riots plague the world, while the United States fights it's last days as the greatest empire of it's time in the Oil Wars. Computers are everywhere, but a tank of gasoline will cost you 60 dollars.
Sounds like something you'd see on the back of a cyberpunk paperback, huh?-
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- Dmitri_Molotov
- 3 months ago
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the issue here is that the currency went from 1 peso 1 american dollar to now 3 pesos and change for each devaluated dollar. currency exchange in argentina is such a big corrupted sub industry, only showing how much foreign currencies are used as a more reliable way of saving capital, much more than the unstable peso, and why unstable? cause its already happened 2ce in the history of the country that anyone's life long deposits and saving disappear into thin air (aka eaten by corp banks and the federal bank).
and NOW that food prices are soaring, cereals and meat being the main fuel for the argentine economic engine, the government wants more money, and people simply cannot take it anymore, and because this touches both the abusive corrupted backbone of the government, and also the greedy backbone of meat and cereal producers, it is such a big mess.
but the one thing that can make this whole scenario change dramatically is the fact that THEY STILL HAVE A VERY CHEAP GAS PRICE because the argentine government keeps tools in place to hold the price down. so its painful to imagine for how long stupid greed from both sides can make a whole country suffer. hopefuly international treaties like unasur will help spread wealth in a good capitalist and socialist manner.
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