Brazil Protesters Lift Truck Blockades After Bolsonaro Orders Transition
- Protests block fully or partially 150 roads across the country
- Some Bolsonaro supporters gather in major cities to protest
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Brazil’s protesting truckers lifted some road blockades Wednesday after President Jair Bolsonaro broke a two-day silence following his election defeat by calling for the demonstrations to be discontinued.
The demonstrations against the result of Sunday’s presidential election, which Bolsonaro narrowly lost, were still partially or fully blocking 150 highways across 17 states on Wednesday afternoon, while 667 protests had already been dismantled, according to the federal highway police. That compares to more than 200 highways affected on Tuesday morning.