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Tags: blockade

Free Trade? You Wish

By The Boss on Mar 5, 2008 | In Politics, Business | Send feedback »

The government was going to free trade import millions of bags of rice to feed the hungry, but enemies of free trade and commerce struck again. Rice farmers and vendors and speculators blocked the Panamerican Highway today near a shitty little place called Divisa that nobody likes anyway. But all traffic going to the city couldn't get through. Will it never stop? Police, smurfs, tear gas. Minister promises he won't buy the rice after all: protesters STILL not satisfied! Minister asks if they can please sow 60,000 hectares with rice; doesn't help either. Will they blackmail us with rice shortage? Who cares? Too much rice is bad for you anyway.

Tags: blockade, free trade, rice, riots, speculation

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