EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Mexican truck drivers are blocking highways leading to the U.S. border to protest robberies by criminals and alleged extortion by authorities at checkpoints.
Several semis parked across the Pan American Highway south of Juarez just before noon on Monday. They targeted commercial trucks and passenger buses, although they allowed personal vehicles to squeeze by their trucks.
“What we want is an end to the violence, to the death and disappearance of truck drivers. We have had up to 200 operators who went missing and the government does nothing,” said David Ortiz, vice president of the National Transport Operators Association, which organized the protest…