Strikes, road blockades, and mine sit-ins continue as 8,000 mineworkers at over 40 coal mines in northern Spain continue their protests against their fiscally-wracked government’s decision to cut coal subsidies.
Spanish Miners Protest Spending Cuts
Strikes, road blockades, and mine sit-ins continue as 8,000 mineworkers at over 40 coal mines in northern Spain continue their protests against their fiscally-wracked government's decision to cut coal subsidies.
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Riot police arrest a woman during the demonstration held to support the coal miners from the Spanish autonomous regions of Asturias, Castilla Leon, Castilla La Mancha, Andalusia and Aragon, after a march called by the main trade unions, from Plaza de Colon square to the Ministry of Industry, in Madrid, Spain, July 11, 2012.