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FUEL COST TROUBLES * WORLDWIDE STRIKES
* India - BJP protests fuel price hike
Mumbai,India -ANI report -Jun 6, 2008: -- India's main opposition party, BJP called for strikes across the country saying that the ruling UPA government should have done more to protect ordinary citizens from rising global oil prices... See Video
* Chile - Truck strike hits Cerro Colorado copper mine
Santiago,Chile -Reuters, by Manuel Farias & Pav Jordan & Matthew Lewis -June 5, 2008: -- BHP Billiton said on Thursday that operations at its smallest copper mine in Chile, Cerro Colorado, had been hit by a truckers' strike that prevented it from bringing in workers and materials... The spokesman said operations at Billiton's larger Chilean mines, Escondida and Spence, were so far unaffected by the national truckers' protest that started at midnight on Monday. Escondida is the world's largest copper mine... Chilean truckers are striking to demand the government cut taxes on diesel to lower the cost of skyrocketing fuel prices... The strike in its third day saw gasoline pumps dripping dry, supermarket shelves went empty and products piling up at Chilean ports on Thursday... The strike added energy-poor Chile to the list of countries experiencing protests against soaring global oil prices, and also came on top of a walkout at a major port...
* Chile - Truckers strike by gasoline prices. Threaten indefinitely one
Santiago,Chile -Reuters TV (Bogota,Colombia), by Gerard Soler/YouTube/EFE -4 June 2008: -- The leaders of the Chilean truckers, which paralyzed today some 60,000 vehicles in protest over high fuel prices, warned that the strike, called by 48 hours, could be indefinite if the government does not give a "powerful signal" to settle their claims ... "Since there is no indication by the Government, nor will clear approaching the owners of the trucks, I think the most logical step is extended indefinitely," said Hector Farias, spokeswoman of about 3,000 truckers stationed in the South route Longitudinal , about 40 kilometers from Santiago... Farias said that the government forgets that the high price of fuel affects not only truckers but also to public transport, the taxi driver, the owner and the ordinary citizen. .
* Chile - Linares: Truckers' Strike
Linares,Chile -YouTube -3 June 2008: -- Teamsters in the regions VI to VIII adhere to the mobilization sector convened by the Confederation of Transport Major in Santiago. It is estimated that at noon on June 4 of this could have nearly a thousand trucks on the routes of provincias Linares and Cauquenes not ruled out measures of pressure that could even include cutting the Route 5 south... So far, only about 200 trucks are on the berms in the area, but an undetermined amount is on alert to get on Route 5 when cuaslquier whether their leaders so request... (Video from YouTube, by linareschile)
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