{"id":3832,"date":"2008-06-11T12:02:20","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T11:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/activism\/picket-killed-in-fuel-protest-in-spain\/3832\/"},"modified":"2008-06-11T12:02:20","modified_gmt":"2008-06-11T11:02:20","slug":"picket-killed-in-fuel-protest-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/picket-killed-in-fuel-protest-in-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Picket killed in fuel protest in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/fuelprotest.jpg\" hspace=\"3\" alt=\"fuelprotest.jpg\" title=\"fuelprotest.jpg\" \/>By <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.buffalonews.com\/nationalworld\/international\/story\/367274.html\">Daniel Woolls<\/a> | Truckers angry over soaring fuel prices blocked highways across Spain on Tuesday, disrupting supplies of food, gasoline, auto parts and other goods. A protester was killed when he was run over by a van trying to drive through a picket line.The strike, which began Monday, is the most serious labor unrest facing Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, a Socialist who came to power in March 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Three auto plants \u2013 one each from Nissan, Mercedes Benz and Volkswagen\u2019s subsidiary Sociedad Espaola de Automviles de Turismo \u2013 said they were suspending operations for lack of spare parts.<\/p>\n<p>And some gasoline stations in Madrid and the northeastern Catalonia region already have run out of fuel.<\/p>\n<p>Vendors at Mercamadrid, Madrid\u2019s sprawling wholesale market, warned of shortages of fruit, vegetables and meat this week if the strike continues.<\/p>\n<p>Truckers say diesel costs have risen 36 percent in one year to more than $7 a gallon.<\/p>\n<p>The protester, the first fatality of the stoppage, was knocked down by a van at a picket line outside the wholesale market in Granada, the Interior Ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry said the van driver, who has been detained, accelerated and hit the man when protesters began to throw stones after he tried to drive past the pickets.<\/p>\n<p>The death prompted the suspension of a second day of talks between the government and truckers\u2019 representatives.<\/p>\n<p>In a similar protest in Hong Kong, truckers were driving slowly to disrupt traffic and protest rising fuel costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daniel Woolls | Truckers angry over soaring fuel prices blocked highways across Spain on Tuesday, disrupting supplies of food, gasoline, auto parts and other goods. A protester was killed when he was run over by a van trying to drive through a picket line.The strike, which began Monday, is the most serious labor unrest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[64],"class_list":{"0":"post-3832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news","7":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}