The Chilean government has resumed negotiations with the country’s mobilized truckers on Saturday to put an end to the truckers’ strike, just hours after the apparent breakdown of negotiations.
The six days that the protest has been in force, Chilean truckers demand better safety conditions in the midst of the energy price crisis derived from the international situation.
The protests have begun to generate supply problems in several areas of the country. The union is demanding from the government of President Gabriel Boric a 30 percent reduction in fuel prices and a freeze on fuel prices for the next six months.
The president has denounced that the strike «has no basis whatsoever» and has assured that the transporters are already protected against these eventualities.
For his part, and in declarations collected by ‘Meganoticias’, the president of the National Confederation of Freight Transport (CNTC), Sergio Pérez, has declared himself «hopeful» in a possible agreement. «In a few hours we could have very good news», he added after the breakdown of the talks in denunciation of the 32 lawsuits filed by the Executive for the State Security Law against the truckers who have blocked the routes.
Meanwhile, this Saturday, the sentence to 17 years in prison for two of the three convicted for the murder in February of the young truck driver Byron Castillo was also known, according to the ruling collected by ‘La Tercera’.
«The defendants executed, jointly, acts aimed at causing the death of the victim, consisting of throwing him from an overpass, over the containment barrier, towards a fall of more than nine meters high,» according to the final verdict on a case that, according to the truckers, highlights the insecurity under which they perform their work.
