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Truckers Strike in Chile, in New Challenge to Government

Associated Press

   SANTIAGO - Truck drivers and some public transport operators in Chile
   staged a strike on Friday, posing a new challenge to a government
   struggling to contain deadly unrest over economic hardship.

   Hundreds of trucks drove slowly on a main highway that skirts the
   capital of Santiago, where stone-throwing protesters have fought riot
   police for more than a week. Some Chileans in cars and motorcycles
   joined the protest, held to demand an end to private highway tolls.

   Violence also broke out in the port of Valparaiso, a scene of daily
   clashes. Thousands demonstrated in other parts of the country of 18
   million.

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