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The strike was sparked by complaints about low wages, with Brazilian police demanding to pay raises of 85%. [6] [7] Strike actions were taken by police in at least 15 different Brazilian states. [8] In some regions, the Brazilian military was deployed to take over policing functions during the strike. [9]
The strike, which has kept police officers off the streets of Espírito Santo, has seriously disrupted residents' day-to-day activities, such as grocery shopping, buying gas and going to the bank. Governor Paulo Hartung (Brazilian Democratic Movement Party) called the strike blackmail. [15]
The 2017 Brazilian general strike took place on 28 April, 100 years after Brazil's first general strike in June 1917. [1] The movement was a protest against reforms of labor laws , which were later adopted and social security proposed by Michel Temer government and pending in National Congress of Brazil .
The early 1960s marked the end of an accelerated growth period of the Brazilian economy, which had been experiencing an average annual growth rate of 6.3%. [1] The import substitution industrialization development model, predominant since the end of World War II, had lost its dynamism, and between 1963 and 1967 Brazil's economic growth decreased by half. [1]
A 72-hour strike began on Wednesday following a nationwide trucker protest that has strangled one region's largest economy. Brazil oil workers begin strike in new blow to government Skip to main ...
Brazil's federal police on Friday arrested seven senior military police officers accused of assisting right-wing rioters during the Jan. 8 attacks on government buildings in the capital, Brasilia.
A former military police officer who was convicted of multiple murders and sentenced to more than 200 years in prison for his part in a 2015 Brazilian massacre has been arrested in New Hampshire ...
The DPF's mandate was established in the first paragraph of the Article 144 of the Brazilian Constitution, which assigns it the following roles: [1]. To investigate criminal offenses against political and social order, or against goods, services and interests of Brazilian federal government, its organs and companies, as well as interstate and international crime in a need of uniform repression ...