Urban Transport Mafias
make coordinate attack to increase taxes [fares].
People in Brazil are
reacting against the urban transport
mafias. The central coordination of the mafias defined to increase
the taxes on several important cities of Brazil in the beginning of
the year, during school vacation.
Anyway, right now,
there are protests happening in Teresina-PI and Vitória-ES.
In Teresina students
protests were violently repressed by the State. The local government
is KIDNAPPING the protesters. This is the correct term because there
is no reason for keeping them under arrest and the bail is too much
for students and protesters: over R$ 6.000,00.
In Teresina and in
other greater cities in Brazil, the mafia involves elected
politicians, urban transport entrepreneurs and even judges. These
mafias have ramifications to business construction and real estate
which influence the urbanism, creating a greater dependence of cars,
energy and pollution, thus putting workers far away from their jobs,
their schools, hospitals etc… All of that for the mafias profit.
The workers of the urban
transport (bus drivers, etc…) cannot join the protesters because
their unions are extremely violent, many times directed by violent
criminals involved in assaults and murders. A perfect situation for
the bosses, which suborn these union directors.
In Vitória, after the
arrest of protesters in Teresina, a bus was set on fire, early on the
following morning, and there are people under arrest there too.
Anyway, students are going
to streets today again: they want the protesters free and also want
the tax value turn back to the original value.
Some time ago, the
movement has occurred in other cities like Salvador-BA,
Florianópolis-SC, São Paulo-SP and its common characteristic is: NO LEADERSHIP IS ACCEPTED OR ADMITTED AND PARTY FLAGS ARE NOT WELCOME.
MPL-Curitiba
jan/2012.
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