{"id":502018,"date":"2022-06-30T11:19:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T05:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=502018"},"modified":"2022-06-30T13:03:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T07:33:55","slug":"higher-fuel-prices-spark-social-unrest-in-south-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/higher-fuel-prices-spark-social-unrest-in-south-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher fuel prices spark social unrest in South America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Argentina blocked a major entry point to the capital&#8217;s centre on Tuesday to keep a group of truckers from joining a downtown protest, adding traffic snarls in Buenos Aires to a series of disruptions caused by anger over rising prices and shortages of fuel across South America, largely as a result of Russia&#8217;s war in Ukraine. <\/p>\n<p>Cars were backed up for several kilometers (miles) until truckers agreed to open up a lane to regular traffic as they moved to take a protest over diesel shortages and prices that has been going on for weeks to Argentina&#8217;s capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Argentina blocked a major entry point to the capital&#8217;s centre on Tuesday to keep a group of truckers from joining a downtown protest, adding traffic snarls in Buenos Aires to a series of disruptions caused by anger over rising prices and shortages of fuel across South America, largely as a result of Russia&#8217;s war in Ukraine. Cars were backed up for several kilometers (miles) until truckers agreed to open up a lane to regular traffic as they moved to take a protest over diesel shortages and prices that has been going on for weeks to Argentina&#8217;s capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,211,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}