Chile Transport Workers Protest over Surging Fuel Prices
- Chilean freight carriers blocked parts of Routes 5 Norte and 5 Sur, disrupting traffic in Tarapacá and Biobío.
- President José Antonio Kast confirmed a 40-peso-per-liter gasoline and diesel increase and proposed limiting future increases for 90 days.
- The Confederación Fuerza del Norte organized the stoppage, while two major trucking groups declined to support it.
- Protesters demanded stronger MEPCO protection and lower fuel taxes.
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Santiago. Several freight unions from different regions of Chile began yesterday a stoppage of activities that includes roadblocks and access to ports, in demand for reductions in the price of diesel oil, which in the course of this year increased almost 70 percent, and whose average price is one dollar 60 cents per litre.
This is not the first time that the government of José Antonio Kast has faced citizen discontent over fuel.
From dawn, the transporters gathered at different points on Route 5, which crosses the country from north to south, to demand measures to compensate for the escalation of diesel, the fuel most used by the sector. Its average price rose by 74% from March in part by the war in Iran. The rise threatens the viability of small and medium-sized transport companies, according to the guilds. "I have nothing left but to stop the truck, not to continue wo…
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