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Tear
Gas And Anti-Riot Police Required To Re-Open
Road
Anti-riot police were called into action
this morning to open up circulation in the
Zapote rotonda and the Circunvalación after
a group of porteadores - informal taxi
drivers or gypsy cabs, if you will - blocked
off streets in protest against the
elimination of the "porteo".
The
informal cabbies began their protest
around 6am this morning in the area
near Casa Presidencial,
demonstrating against the government
whom the say has done a turn about
face on them, after promising that
the porteo would be allowed to
continue.
Firing tear gas into the crowd and
double row of vehicles, police were
able to re-open at least one lane of
the Circunvalación.
The Policía de Tránsito was also
called in to to intervene, bringing
in more traffic officials and tow
trucks to open up the roads. |
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By 1pm the streets
were clear of protestors, as the porteadores
moved to the legislative assembly building.
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