Weekly Report - 19 June 2008 (ISSN 1741-7422)

President Cristina Fernández addressed a crowd of some 50,000 people in the Plaza de Mayo on 18 June in a rally held “in defence of democracy" during which she once again railed at leaders of the four farming unions for destabilising the country and called on them to desist from their national protests. This followed a minor concession. A day earlier Fernández agreed to send the tax reforms to the agricultural sector to congress for approval. The farming unions responded by extending protest action until 20 June.