BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina's biggest trade unions mounted one of their fiercest challenges to the libertarian government of President Javier...
, staging a mass general strike on Thursday that led to the cancellation of hundreds of flights and halted key bus, rail and subway lines. Main avenues and streets, as well as major transportation terminals were left eerily empty.and deregulation push threatened to bring the nation of 46 million to a standstill as banks, businesses and state agencies closed in protest.
The government said transport service disruptions would prevent some 6.6 million people from making it to work. That was apparent during the morning rush-hour Thursday as few cars could be seen on streets typically snarled with traffic. Garbage was already piling up on deserted sidewalks.The country's largest union, known by its acronym CGT, said it was staging the strike alongside other labor syndicates “in defense of democracy, labor rights and a living wage.
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