SANTO DOMINGO.- After Wednesday’s serious confrontations where several people were injured, bus drivers and owners grouped in Fenatrano again staged a walkout today, roiling the Thursday morning commute.

The protests stem from a conflict between Antonio Marte, head of the union Conatra and head of the rival Fenatrano Juan Hubieres, who said it’s a peaceful  walkout until 10 a.m., and includes the routes along avenues Independencia in the capital, to the southern city Baní, and others not less important.

Interviewed on the Z-101 morning radio program, Hubieres affirmed that stoppage is to protest the insecurity he said affects Fenatrano’s drivers, exposed to beatings and gunfire “from police groups, protected by the Police, protected by the governor of San Cristóbal, the general of Baní and the Police chief himself.”

He accused the Government of failing to meet the agreements two years ago. “There is a strike until 10 in the morning today and if the situation continues, we will continue in this process of struggle day after day, defending an interest that the users are also part of.”