RAW VIDEO: Clashes Break Out at Nicaragua Taxi Strike

(ROUGH CUT ONLY - NO REPORTER NARRATION) Violent scenes in Nicaragua on Monday (October 01) after riot police faced off with striking taxi drivers in the capital to demand greater government fuel subsidies. Setting tyres on fire and blockading thoroughfares in Managua, riot police were called in to forcibly disperse the large crowd of protesting taxi drivers. Rounding up protesters and pulling drivers out of their taxis, scuffles erupted as the authorities attempted to arrest demonstrators. According to local media, taxi drivers resisted riot police with some protesters throwing stones at the officers. Nicaragua's "La Prensa"...

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