Spain may use soldiers to ensure food and gasoline is delivered to stores and service stations currently blocked by truckers protesting fuel prices, El Confidencial said, citing unidentified government officials.

Tenacious picketing by drivers means the protest probably won't end this week as some state officials predicted, the news Web site said.

The government is ready to call out the Emergency Military Unit, created in 2005 to deal with what Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero called natural catastrophes and crises such as the current one, the report said. ... Read full article