São Paulo City Councilman Fernando Holiday joined the truckers’ strike on the Dutra Highway that connects Brazil’s two biggest cities, Rio and São Paulo. He published this video on October 31st, in which he says that neither he nor the truckers accept the results of the national elections last week.
The alderman accuses the Supreme Federal Court and Minister Alexandre de Moraes of censorship and manipulation of electoral polls.
“As you can see, the road is completely stopped. For those who didn’t believe that the truckers were going to protest the victory of former president Lula, they were very wrong” he said in the video.
“We will not give up for a day. The government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva needs to know the ‘terror’ it is to have us as an opposition,” he said.
As of November 5th, the Brazilian highway police (PRF) announced that there are no more blockades in the country, after they removed a 999 separate protest groups. Meanwhile, a massive convoy of trucks is headed to Cuiabá, the capital city of Mato Grosso state, which is an agricultural and ranching area in the Central-West region of the country.
I have a couple of friends from there, pretty much all of them are pissed as the result was obviously a fraud.