Chilean Miners Strike
Reuters
SANTIAGO, Chile —
About 10,000 workers at Chuquicamata, the world’s largest open-pit copper mine, went on strike over wages Monday in the first major challenge from labor under Chile’s year-old democratic government. Chuquicamata accounts for almost half of Chile’s copper output and generates 13% of the country’s foreign revenues.
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