BUENOS AIRES: Argentina’s fuel crisis deepened on Monday as filling stations around Buenos Aires ran out of petrol and long queues formed elsewhere, while the government said it could halt exports to preserve supplies and oil sector workers threatened a strike.
The South American country, a major shale oil and gas producer, has suffered shortages of petrol and diesel since late last week because of domestic refining problems and as a lack of dollars has delayed imports.
The crisis is damaging the government ahead of a second-round presidential election run-off next month between the ruling Peronist coalition’s economy chief Sergio Massa, seen as the front-runner, and a radical libertarian Javier Milei.
