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In Martinique, le blog de [moi] writes that the port of Fort-de-France is completely blocked [Fr], and has been for a week, by dockworkers on strike. She's not too sympathetic, noting, according to one report, that dockworkers' salaries have doubled in the last five years, and that they last went on strike four months ago. The port is Martinique's main artery.
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