持续的罢工开始严重破坏国家经济。

Continuing strikes are beginning to play havoc with the national economy.

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在墨西哥，刚实现加入NAFTA不久，一场货币危机使这个国家陷入经济萧条，小企业所有者举行罢工，反对自由贸易。

In Mexico, where a currency crisis threw the nation into depression shortly after implementation of NAFTA, small business owners were in the street, too, opposing "free trade".

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在罢工中，牧场主和种植者拒绝销售肉牛和谷物，这使得当地谷物市场陷于瘫痪，再次上演了一场在去年曾折磨该国经济的剧烈冲突。

Ranchers and growers are refusing to sell cattle and grains in a strike that has paralyzed local grain markets and revived a bitter conflict that gripped the country last year.

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