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Brazil faces calls for return to military dictatorship amid truckers' strike. Days into shutdown that began over fuel prices, some protesters call for military intervention ‘to put the house in order’

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Tags: brazil, strikes, corruption, military, dictatorships, civil unrest, trucking, gasoline, prices.fuel, author.sam cowie, author.dom phillips, source.the guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/30/brazil-truckers-strike-protest-military-dictatorship

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Title
Brazil faces calls for return to military dictatorship amid truckers' strike
Authors
Sam Cowie, Dom Phillips
Published
May 30 2018
Word count
758 words

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  1. drg
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    The good thing is that it is a minority who is calling for a military intervention. People are very distrustiful of the political system as a whole, and unfortunately are dividing into two groups:...

    The good thing is that it is a minority who is calling for a military intervention. People are very distrustiful of the political system as a whole, and unfortunately are dividing into two groups: the one who is forgetting how the country suffered under a military rule and the ones who are succumbing to cheap populism :(

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