MADRID, Spain (AP) — Striking truckers are clogging highways leading into Madrid and other cities on the second day of a nationwide strike over rising fuel costs. The traffic department of the Interior Ministry says all major roads leading into the Spanish capital were experiencing bumper-to-bumper congestion because of trucks moving at a snail’s pace as part of the protest. The government is holding a second round of talks Tuesday with representatives of the strikers.
“We are the ones who move the goods that this country needs to keep working. If we stop because we haven’t got the money to buy fuel then the country will stop,” Julio Villascusa, president of the transport association Fenadismer, told Cadena SER radio. A strike by fishermen across Spain also protesting fuel costs has entered a second week. News reports said smaller boats that fish closer to the coast had now joined the protest, which began May 30. More
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