🌟 [ 9 ] Traffic in Colombia descended into chaos after negotiations over fuel price failed [ @ ]
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Bogota, Colombia -
4 September 2024
1. Trucks blocking a bridge, sounding their horns
2. People trying to get around blockade on their bicycles
3. Blockade, people walking
4. Trucks blocking road
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Edgar Duarte, truck driver:
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I do not support (the strike) because it is affecting me. I can't get home since yesterday. I am not supporting it, I am working. I had to stay here because I can't get through.
6. Truck with a Colombian flag and a sign reading (Spanish) “No increase of the ACPM (diesel)”.
7. School transport vehicles honking their horns
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Carlos Vargas, truck driver on strike:
“We are protesting to lower diesel (prices) and to reach agreements to improve working conditions. The president had said he was going to be on the side of the drivers, but it was all a hoax.”
9. Protest
STORYLINE:
Colombian cargo and passenger carriers continued on Wednesday with a protest that blocked access to the capital Bogota and generated chaos in the city's streets.
The drivers were complaining about the increase in fuel prices and took measures, frustrated by the failure of negotiations with the government of President Gustavo Petro.
As of Saturday, the government ordered an increase in the price of diesel by 1,904 pesos ($0.50) per gallon, the first of three increases it plans to make until reaching $1.50 in 2025.
The measure proved unpopular and led to permanent and intermittent blockades on main roads and access to main cities such as Bucaramanga, Cucuta, and Bogota, where 13 protest points were registered on Wednesday.
Petro wrote on social media platform X that he would not let truckers unions “block” the country.
The former activist, who has led numerous protests throughout his career, wrote Tuesday that fuel subsidies had to be removed in order to “reduce public debt” and “finance the health and education of Colombians.”
Subsidies for diesel fuel have been implemented in Colombia for decades, and previous governments have kept them in place, fearing that removal could lead to massive protests and increases in food prices.
AP video shot by Marko Alvarez
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