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Week-long Brazil trucker strike leaves food, fuel scarce

Brazil's President Michel Temer is under pressure from a week-long national truckers' strike which led to fuel and food shortages. [Courtesy]

Brazil faced serious supply disruptions on the seventh day of a truckers' strike Sunday, although the government said the country was "on a path to normalization."

Brazilian authorities have deployed the military to clear barricades erected by strikers and have been escorting fuel trucks since Friday to maintain access to refineries.

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