Truckers' strikes halts border traffic for 4 hours

Published Tuesday, April 21, 2009 8:37 PM MDT

A four-hour strike by Mexican truckers protesting slow processing times by U.S. Customs and Border Protection at the Mariposa Port of Entry ended at about 4 p.m. Tuesday.

Acting Nogales Port Director, Armando Goncalvez met with the local administrator for Servicio de Administracion Tributaria (SAT), the equivalent of the U.S. Department of Treasury, and designated leaders for commercial trucking operators in Mexico in an effort to find a resolution for a strike that started at about noon.

At about 3 p.m., Goncalvez “initiated communications with the leaders of the Mexico trucking operators on strike,â€