Insights and Stories on Roadblocks

Access to Brazil’s Itajai port to open as truck protest ends

Mar. 5, 2015 at 6:40 pm CST

Sao Paulo | Reuters — Protesters have agreed to open access to Brazil’s main poultry exporting port of Itajai in Santa Catarina state, the port said on Wednesday, ending a lingering flashpoint after a two-week truck drivers’ protest. A union of autonomous truck drivers agreed to the port’s proposal to […]

Brazil truck strike wanes; more soy gets to ports

Mar. 3, 2015 at 6:15 pm CST

By Caroline Stauffer Gustavo Bonato

Brazil truckers continue some roadblocks after crackdown

Mar. 2, 2015 at 5:00 pm CST

By Caroline Stauffer Marcelo Teixeira

Some roads reopened in Brazil; truck strike persists

Feb. 28, 2015 at 9:45 am CST

By Reuters

Brazil warns of fines for striking truckers

Feb. 26, 2015 at 3:50 pm CST

By Reuters

Brazil truck strike grinds into second week, port access cleared

Feb. 25, 2015 at 4:57 pm CST

Sao Paulo | Reuters — Truckers staged nearly 100 roadblocks across Brazil’s farm belt on Wednesday as protests stretched into their eighth day, though access to the country’s biggest port was cleared after police clashed with protesters who had briefly halted traffic there. The steadily widening blockades have sparked growing […]

By Marcelo Teixeira Reese Ewing

Brazilian grain trucker blockade continues, threatens harvest

Feb. 20, 2015 at 7:32 pm CST

Sao Paulo | Reuters –– Truckers protesting high diesel prices in Brazil used road blocks to restrict the flow of soy, corn and other commodities in a key grain-growing region for a third day on Friday, threatening what is expected to be a record harvest. A group of transport companies […]

By Gustavo Bonato