Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 15:07:26 -0700
From: Tomás Rosa Bueno <basileos-AT-wenet.com.br>
Subject: Re: (Fwd) Strikers stop Latin America's biggest port


Curtis Price wrote:
> 
> Strikers stop Latin America's biggest port
> 
> The crowd, estimated at between 500 and 2,000 people, built barricades on
> the road leading to the terminal and set tires on fire, an official at
> Cosipa said.
> 
> ``The situation is very tense here,'' he added.
> 
> Port officials said it was possible the crowd would swell to several
> thousand as more people were being brought in by bus.
> 
> Military police officers in the early hours evacuated 26 stevedores who had occupied two vessels at the Cosipa terminal for the last 13 days.

Gentlefolx,

This strike is led by the worst kind of mafia-type union, but once they 
start seizing ships and blocking roads one never knows where they'll 
stop.

Today (Thursday, April 17) is the day when some fifty-thousand workers 
join the landless workers march on Brazil's federal capital. Police and 
army troops await them and the papers are screaming about possible 
violence. The governor of the federal district is affiliated to the 
Worker's Party, so all the elements for a grand melee are given. Keep 
your ears clean and your eyes open.

Tomás


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