Argentinian farmers protest crop export taxes

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Farmers block trucks carrying rice for export in Gualeguaychu, Argentina, June 19, 2008. Ten trucks carrying enough rice to feed three million people in one day sat stranded on the side of the road — casualties of a 100-day-long farm strike that's paralyzed this country's giant grain industry.

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