Brazil's president does not think truckers have reason to strike - spokesman


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  • Tuesday, 23 Apr 2019

FILE PHOTO: Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro speaks at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil April 9, 2019. REUTERS/Adriano Machado/File Photo

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro believes there is no reason for the country's truckers to go on strike, his spokesman said on Monday.

General Otavio Rego Barros told reporters in Brasilia that the government's talks with truckers were aimed at securing a good outcome to avoid a strike. A 2018 truckers strike paralysed Brazil's economy, and the government recently pushed state-oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro not to raise diesel prices for fear of fresh strikes.

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