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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 13 April 2017

ARGENTINA: Macri faces down strikers

No domestic or international flights took off or landed in Argentina for 24 hours on 6 April. No trains or buses ran in the city of Buenos Aires and other cities nationwide. If bringing public transport to a standstill was the goal of the general strike called by Argentina’s main trade union movement Confederación General del Trabajo (CGT) and the two factions of the Central de los Trabajadores de la Argentina Autónoma (CTA) then measured by this yardstick it was a success. But the government led by President Mauricio Macri remained defiant and has moved to divide the CGT, whose leaders faced a number of public relations difficulties. Macri still hosted the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Latin America, or 'mini-Davos’, on the same day in the capital during which the WEF’s executive chairman, Klaus Schwab, praised him for putting Argentina “back on the geoeconomic and geopolitical map”.

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