Uruguay had not seen a 24-hour general strike for seven years but that changed on 6 August. The umbrella trade union Plenario Intersindical de Trabajadores-Convención Nacional de Trabajadores (PIT-CNT) has staged numerous protest actions on various scales since its nominal ally, the ruling left-wing coalition Frente Amplio (FA) came to power in 2005, but no strike of this duration since 2008. President Tabaré Vázquez refused to cave in to its demands then and if the stony silence from the government on the day of the strike is anything to go by he does not intend to now either.End of preview - This article contains approximately 758 words.
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