The Brazilian government has deployed the military to deal with a trucker protest that has paralyzed the nation. The truckers are angry over high fuel prices.
Brazil’s conservative president Michel Temer has ordered the army and federal police to clear highways blockaded by striking truck drivers after a protest over soaring fuel prices entered its fifth day.
The blockades have paralysed much of the country’s economy and prompted São Paulo, the biggest city in South America, to declare a state of emergency over fuel shortages.
“I have actioned the federal security forces to unblock highways and I am asking governors to do the same,” Temer said in a televised address on Friday. “We will not let the population do without its primary needs.”
The protests began over fuel prices but have been further stoked by widespread anger over repeated graft scandals involving prominent politicians – including Temer himself.
In São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, supermarkets and restaurants are running low on supplies. Some factories have shut down, bus services been reduced and even the Refugees World Cup, scheduled to take place in São Paulo on Saturday, has been cancelled.
This just shows how quickly a society can descend into chaos. It is further exacerbated when a society is based on multiculturalism like we see in Brazil. This is a country where wealthy White people live in posh gated communities secured from hordes of low IQ brown people. It’s a glimpse of what the United States will turn into if we don’t see demographic trends reversed.
