Brazil’s deeply unpopular President Michel Temer insisted Monday that a truck strike crippling the country will end within hours, even as drivers paralyzed fuel, goods and food deliveries. Temer said he had “absolute conviction that between today and tomorrow” the crisis, which stretched into its eighth day, would finally end. In a tweet, Temer gave […]
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Strike by truckers forces Brazilian government to reduce diesel prices
Brazil’s President Michel Temer, under pressure from a week-long national truckers’ strike which led to fuel and food shortages, ceded to protesters’ demands Sunday and slashed the cost of diesel. The cut, equal to 0.46 reais a liter, was to be locked in place for 60 days, the president said in televised remarks, as the […]