Gas hike protests in Mexico
Sometimes-violent protests and looting over gasoline price hikes in Mexico are continuing and officials say that so far they’ve left one policeman dead and five injured, 300 stores looted and over 600 people arrested.
The country’s business chambers says the combination of highway, port and terminal blockades and looting have forced many stores and businesses to close and threaten supplies of basic goods and fuel.
In this photo, police forcibly remove demonstrators who blocked a main road for about an hour as they protest hikes in gas prices in Mexico City, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017.
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Mexicans were enraged by the 20-percent fuel price hike announced over the weekend as part of a government deregulation effort.
Since then, protesters have blockaded highways and gas stations and looting has broken out in some places.
In this photo, toys land other products lie on the floor after a store was ransacked by a crowd in the port city of Veracruz, Mexico, Wednesday Jan. 4, 2017.
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Residents pilfer gasoline and diesel from a gas station following protests against an increase in fuel prices in Allende, southern Veracuz State, Mexico, late Tuesday Jan. 3, 2017.
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Police forcibly remove demonstrators who blocked a main road for about an hour during protests against gas price hikes in Mexico City, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017.
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An police officer removes a demonstrator who, along with others, blocked a main road for about an hour during protests against gas price hikes in Mexico City, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017
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Protesters block a main road for about an hour to protest fuel price hikes in Mexico City, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017.
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Residents steal gasoline and diesel from a gas station following protests against an increase in fuel prices in Allende, southern Veracuz State, Mexico, late Tuesday Jan. 3, 2017.
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A woman writes in Spanish “No to the gasoline price hike” on the rear window of a taxi that pulled over to show solidarity with protestors blocking access to gas stations on Calzada de Tlalpan in Mexico City, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017.
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A man runs with toys as a store is ransacked by a crowd in the port of Veracruz, Mexico, Wednesday Jan. 4, 2017.
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A worker empties a bucket of dirty water outside a bank displaying the U.S. dollar exchange rate, in Mexico City, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017.
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Military police guard next to a bank office in Mexico City, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017.
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Residents steal gasoline and diesel from a gas station following protests against an increase in fuel prices in Allende, southern Veracuz State, Mexico, late Tuesday Jan. 3, 2017.
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Police try to convince truck drivers to disperse after dozens of drivers angry over an increase in gas prices parked their vehicles, put up protest signs, and were waving motorists through toll booths without paying, at the Palmillas toll plaza, 102 kilometers outside Mexico City on the highway to Queretaro, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017.