Wallace Landim, president of the Brazilian truckers' union Abrava, said on Tuesday that the union is calling for a strike as early as this week due to the recent spike in diesel prices due to the Middle East conflict. Since the outbreak of the Iranian conflict, the average price of Brazil's best-selling S-10 diesel has risen by about 19%. “It's a battle for survival,” Landim said. This is not the first time since 2018 that truckers have attempted a large-scale strike, but Landim said that past strikes were politically motivated, but now truckers are feeling “the same pain as in 2018,” when a large-scale truckers' strike paralyzed traffic across Brazil for about 10 days.

Wallace Landim, president of the Brazilian truckers' union Abrava, said on Tuesday that the union is calling for a strike as early as this week due to the recent spike in diesel prices due to the Middle East conflict. Since the outbreak of the Iranian conflict, the average price of Brazil's best-selling S-10 diesel has risen by about 19%. “It's a battle for survival,” Landim said. This is not the first time since 2018 that truckers have attempted a large-scale strike, but Landim said that past strikes were politically motivated, but now truckers are feeling “the same pain as in 2018,” when a large-scale truckers' strike paralyzed traffic across Brazil for about 10 days.