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Weekly Report - 04 May 2017 (WR-17-17)

BRAZIL: General strike ends in violence but little change

Many of the most significant of Brazil’s 15,000 trade unions carried out a general strike on 28 April. The country’s major cities ground to a halt early in the day as workers on buses, trains and other forms of urban transport walked off the job. Domestic flights, however, suffered relatively minor delays, despite barricades set up on the roads leading to airports in São Paulo and Brasília.

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