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Argentina: Another Agriculture Strike?

Aug 12, 2008 | 18:32 GMT

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Summary

Agricultural groups in Argentina are considering a return to the streets, this time to protest price caps that are crippling the industry's ability to produce full food harvests. The farmers are capitalizing on momentum from their successful protest of export taxes on agricultural products. The question of price caps, however, bores to the center of Argentina's dilemma: the conflict between political and economic necessities.

Argentine agricultural groups are considering striking to protest price caps. ...

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