Re: Ye olde Patagonia Express no more?

Approximate translation courtesy google translate site ( I love the image of using salamanders for heating, curled up on passengers laps presumably! Perhaps someone can provide a better translation.):

'Unions Railway Union and the Brotherhood announced for next Tuesday a nationwide strike on passenger trains and freight across the country to protest the labor situation in "The Trochita" and the alleged intention of closing Chubut that train provides services between the towns of El Maiten and Esquel.


The strike will be for 24 hours and will be "to support 66 families lose their jobs and isolated from the province," they said in a press release issued this morning in which he also accused the governor Martín Buzzi to apply "Menem style "in the rail network.


Workers in "The Trochita" are on strike two weeks ago. The conflict began late last year by the dismissal of six workers, a claim that most wage increase. Authorities did not give in and the conflict drags on. Pickets have been erected over the tracks in the station and the centennial Esquel locomotives are stopped on the tracks. Hundreds of tourists, who already had reservations for travel on the train stations in protest.


Yesterday railroad workers marched through the city demanding solutions and provincial authorities reached Esquel to try to unlock the conflict with speed and avoid losing season. The Trochita is a tourist train that runs through the mountain villages of Chubut, with old steam locomotives and wagons in large salamanders highlighting used in winter for heating.'

Ian Drummond