Overview
- ANTAC, the National Association of Truckers, announced in a social media video that a nationwide stoppage will begin April 6 after Easter week to avoid disrupting vacations.
- The call includes truckers, small operators, farmers, and farm workers, and organizers warn they will stop activity on key highways and in essential sectors.
- Leaders cite highway crime, disappearances of drivers, and routine extortion at checkpoints as core reasons for the action.
- Rising fuel prices are a central complaint, and the group presses for scrapping the IEPS fuel tax and for support to the farm sector after talks with the Interior Ministry stalled.
- No public counterproposal from the federal government has been reported, and a broad halt could disrupt freight routes and deliveries across the country.