Weekly Report - 28 June 2012 (WR-12-25)

The escalating confrontation between President Cristina Fernández and Hugo Moyano, the secretary general of the union of truck drivers (Schoca) and of the general confederation of labour (CGT), was like watching the head-on collision of two articulated lorries: everyone could see it coming for miles but neither ‘driver’ could apply the brakes to stop it. When Moyano called a general strike last week, it became clear that after some eight months of increasingly hostile verbal diatribes, the union leader was ready to show his hand.