The National Association of Transporters in Mexico (ANTAC) and the National Front for the Rescue of the Mexican Countryside (FNRCM) confirmed a national strike for Monday, April 6, targeting highways, customs offices, and border crossings across the country [1]. "We're going to paralyze absolutely everything," ANTAC president David Estevez Gamboa told reporters [1].

The demands span two industries that together move the Mexican economy. Truckers want an end to highway robbery, extortion, and kidnapping -- violence that has made Mexican freight routes among the most dangerous in the Western Hemisphere [2]. Farmers demand the exclusion of basic grains from any future USMCA renegotiation, guaranteed minimum prices for harvests, and the creation of an agricultural development bank [3]. Four of five demands from a previous November 2025 blockade remain unresolved [3].

The strike will target the Mexico City-Queretaro, Mexico City-Cuernavaca, and Mexico City-Toluca corridors, with FNRCM leader Baltazar Valdez warning that "dialogue does not resolve anything if there are no decisive actions" [3]. Blockades are expected to begin by 7 a.m. [2].

This is the second national truckers' strike in five months. The November 2025 action ended after a marathon negotiation, but the underlying grievances -- insecurity, fuel costs, agricultural imports undercutting domestic production -- never did. Monday will test whether the Sheinbaum government listens to blocked highways more attentively than it listened to petitions.

-- LUCIA VEGA, Sao Paulo