Chile truckdrivers call for country-wide strike after nine-year old girl shot
AUGUST 24, 2020 / 7:04 AM / UPDATED 3 HOURS AGO
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SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Truckdrivers in Chile late on Sunday called for a countrywide strike to begin Thursday if President Sebastian Pinera and Congress do not act immediately to stem a rising tide of attacks against their number in Chile’s Araucania region.
The threat of a walk-off comes after a nine-year-old girl was hospitalized with a gunshot wound after an attack on her father’s cement truck. Police have launched an investigation but have yet to identify suspects.
Chile’s Araucania has seen a spike in attacks on transport trucks and factories in recent months. The region of south-central Chile has long been convulsed by a simmering conflict between the indigenous Mapuche and the Chilean government.
The country’s National Confederation of Cargo Transport (CNTC) said Congress had failed to pass laws necessary to stop these kinds of attacks and punish them adequately.
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