Brazil truckers continue some roadblocks after crackdown

[WorldNews]

By Caroline Stauffer and Marcelo Teixeira SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Striking truck drivers resumed some roadblocks in Brazil on Monday, disrupting grain and meat shipments to southern ports even as the government cracked down on protesters and promised to give new benefits to the transport sector. By mid-afternoon there were 23 road blockages in three southern states, down from 99 points nationwide a week ago, the federal highway police said. The country's No. 3 soy exporting port of Rio Grande, in Brazil's southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul, said 70 percent of its operations were affected. Brazil exported just 869,000 tonnes of soybeans last month, 69 percent less than in February 2014, the data showed.

 

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