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Over 100 arrested in Nicaraguan clashes during transport strike

May 7, 2008, 21:31 GMT

Managua - Nicaraguan police arrested over 100 people Wednesday during the third day of a transport strike in the Central American country. National Police Commissioner Vilma Reyes told Nicaraguan media on Wednesday that the arrests were carried out late Tuesday, after strike activists threw stones at police officers in several parts of the country. Protests from freight, long-distance bus and taxi services are demanding that the government 'freeze' the price of fuel or subsidize the sector in the face of the international rise in the price of oil. During the protests traffic across Nicaragua was reduced to private cars and urban buses, although the latter have threatened to join the strike. The leftist government of President Daniel Ortega has not commented on the situation.

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