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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 .
According to Brazilian historian João José Reis, the strike was the first general strike in Brazil's history. He attributes the partial success of the strike to the solidarity among Salvador's Afro-Brazilian community and sees the event as an early example of pan-Africanism that would become more common throughout Bahia in the late 1800s.
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 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]
The Espírito Santo state government called in assistance from the National Public Security Force and the Brazilian Armed Forces to restore law and order in Vitória and other cities until military policemen began to return to their duties after two weeks of strike action. By 25 February, all military policemen in Espírito Santo had ended ...
An 836-pound “cursed” emerald worth nearly $1 billion will be returned to Brazil after 15 years under lock and key in Los Angeles. The 180,000-carat Bahia Emerald was smuggled out of the South ...
The 2018 Brazil truck drivers' strike, also called the diesel crisis, was a strike of self-employed truck drivers [6] [7] that began on 21 May 2018. [8] [9] [10]The protesters demanded a decrease of the price of diesel, exemption from certain tolls, [11] as well as a legal and tax reform related to truck driving.
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