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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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A striking farmer stops a line of trucks carrying rice for export in Gualeguaychu, Argentina, Thursday.
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Truck driver Adolfo Noguera handles some of the rice for export stopped at a side of a road in Gualeguaychu, Argentina, Thursday.
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Tractors are parked near a cross road by striking farmers blocking the access to Gualeguaychu, Argentina, Thursday.
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Trucks are stopped in a blockade by farmers and truck drivers in 9 de Julio, Buenos Aires province, Argentina. With thousands of protesters blocking roads and people rushing to withdraw their savings, this country at times seems like it's nearing the kind of economic collapse that sent more than half of Argentines into poverty seven years ago.
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From over a bridge, people watch the massive traffic jam provoked by a blockade in 9 de Julio, Buenos Aires province, Argentina.
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A truck is stopped in a blockade in 9 de Julio, Buenos Aires province, Argentina.
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A truck driver drinks a mate tea after waiting hours to pass the blockade.
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