The latest in the wave of anti-globalization and anti-Americanism in South America is taking the form of striking oil workers in Ecuador:

QUITO, Ecuador (Reuters) – Petroecuador said on Wednesday it expects production will climb to near normal levels in three or four days after troops fired tear gas to clear out strikers who have cut crude output at Ecuador’s state oil firm by nearly half…The roughly 4,000 contract workers put down their tools to demand full-time jobs and delayed payments…Small groups of union workers and students also clashed with police in Quito to demand the government quit free trade talks with the United States and raise the minimum wage.

Contract workers, who aren’t getting paid, are demanding back wages they are owed and full-time employment.  Rather than negotiating with those striking workers, the government uses tear gas to force them back to work.