Gas pumps drying up in Chile truckers' strike

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SANTIAGO, June 5 (Reuters) - Gasoline pumps were dripping dry in some towns while stocks piled up at Chilean ports on Thursday as truckers entered the third day of a national strike to demand an end to diesel taxes.

They launched the strike on Tuesday, lining highway shoulders along Chile's 2,700-mile (4300-km) border with rigs laden with cargo.

The strikes add energy-poor Chile to the list of countries experiencing protests against soaring global oil prices, and also ...

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