Colombia’s president Juan Manuel Santos on Wednesday called an emergency cabinet meeting to come up with a “rapid solution” to the country’s ongoing coffee growers strike which the government said can only happen “when the strike ends.”
The president
Some 7,000 protesters on Wednesday blocked the Pan-American highway in the southwestern Cauca department after reportedly having clashed with riot police who tried to retake the road from the protestors.
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- Gobierno Nacional está abierto al diálogo con los cafeteros, pero ‘sin vías de hecho’, señaló el Ministro del Interior (Presidential Website)
- Gobierno convoca reunión extraordinaria para conjurar el paro cafetero (W Radio)
- Ahora las Farc apoyan a los campesinos? (Dinero.com)
- Gobierno dialogará con cafeteros cuando se levante el paro (El Tiempo)
- Paro cafetero complica la situación de orden publico en el Cauca (Notivision Popayan)