On Tuesday, October 14, farmers across Mexico initiated a national strike, blocking key roads to demand fair prices for corn.
In Jalisco, protestors gathered on the Guadalajara Macrolibramiento, the Guadalajara-Mexico City highway near the Ocotlán toll booth and the highway to Colima near Tlajomulco and Acatlán, causing significant traffic disruptions. At the blockade on the Colima freeway at kilometer 40, dozens of farmers chanted, “Without a fair price, there is no harvest” (Sin precio justo, no hay cosecha).
Although the farmers had vowed to maintain the protests, all the blockades in Jalisco were lifted within 24 hours after the intervention of the state government..
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