Brazil Truckers Strike for Fourth Day
- Senators leave for home early, worried strike grounds flights
- Strike delaying deliveries of goods and services nationwide
Truckers' Strike Strangles Brazil Food Deliveries
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Large parts of Latin America’s largest economy are seizing up.
Truckers across Brazil have been striking for four days, furious at the price of diesel. Highways have been blocked. Fresh meat and fruit are becoming scarce. And, what’s more, the administration of lame-duck President Michel Temer is struggling to neutralize the threat to a fragile recovery from a record recession.