Striking farmers resume blockades in Argentina

March 31, 2008 – 8:51 pm

Argentine farmers seething at export taxes on their crops resumed blockades of rural highways Monday after talks failed to end a 19-day-old strike that has halted grain exports and emptied supermarket shelves of meat.


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