MEXICO CITY: Mexico's president said on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila) he will call on the National Guard to protect gas delivery trucks after drivers and crews went on strike to protest government price controls. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said he will not back down and compared the battle to his 2019 offensive against fuel thieves. Crews that distribute liquefied petroleum gas in Mexico's capital went on strike on Tuesday after the government-imposed price controls on the fuel that most Mexicans use to cook and heat water.
