Entities that bring together truck drivers began to organize a caravan to protest against Petrobras’ pricing policy. The drivers intend to leave Curitiba (PR) on May 20 and travel through several cities in Brazil, where motorcades will be organized.
The cart that will “pull” the caravan is almost ready, according to the president of ANTB (National Transport Association of Brazil), José Roberto Stringasci, and will circulate under the signature of a movement called “Sovereignty Now”. Under a green and yellow canvas, they call for the end of the PPI (International Parity Price) and the renationalization of strategic companies.
The list of cities is being defined according to the places where leaders of the category manage to mobilize other protests.
The change in command of Petrobras, which took place after the soaring of fuel prices, does not calm the spirits in sectors with costs under pressure. On Thursday (14), José Mauro Coelho assumed the presidency of the state-owned company and defended the policy of price parity.
For PlÃnio Dias, president of the CNTRC (National Council for Road Cargo Transport), it is regrettable that the government still supports parity. “Brazil always pays the price”, he says. “We could have oil in real and not in dollars.”
The director of CNTTL (National Confederation of Transport and Logistics Workers), Carlos Alberto Litti Dahmer, also sees the replacement as having no effect while the price parity policy is in effect.
“You can change it every week and it won’t change anything. Everything he says brings the same concept of who was there before, there’s nothing new. You change the flies, but the smell is the same”, he says.
Litti, who is a self-employed truck driver from Ijuà (RS), also criticizes the speed with which Petrobras passes on the drops in the price of a barrel of oil and the dollar exchange rate, which he considers incompatible.
In the assessment of Wallace Landim, the Chorão, president of Abrava (Brazilian Association of Motor Vehicle Drivers), the chain effect of high fuel prices is already seen in food prices.
“We have nowhere to run, our only option is to pass on the increase in diesel to the price of freight, and as a result we see ourselves on the supermarket shelves, and those who suffer are the poorest, who can no longer eat.”
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