Brazil & Southern Cone - February 2013 (ISSN 1741-4431)

Workers at Brazil’s main port of Santos, one of the country’s main export hubs. walked out for six hours on 22 February in protest at the government’s reform plans for the ports sector, disrupting crucial agri-exports including soya beans and maize. Days earlier (18 February), port workers grouped under Força Sindical seized a Chinese ship at Santos

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