Loading ...About a week before Thanksgiving , I witnessed this , while in South America . The whole country was shut down by a student-led ‘strike’ protest , lasting most of the day . The town I was in has three main Inter-city roads . All three were shut down by dissidents blocking traffic , so trucking and long distant buses were shut down . Even medical clinics were short staffed that day , effectively closed , as were many businesses . In the attached photo you can see a black tarp covered OTR truck making a three-point turn around , beyond the foot bridge , trying to go back and futilely attempt to find an alternate route around the blockade . The only alternative that I know of is a one lane dirt road through the jungle , impossible to traverse if another truck attempts to bypass the blockade in the opposite direction .
Similar blockades were organized simultaneously in all major centers in the country .
BTW , that South American country has two important ‘Canadian’ gold mines that I am aware of , one of which you posted news about just this week .