LatamPolitik: Keep on Truckin’, Anything but the Peso, and Ortega’s Pivotal Week
Keep on Truckin’
What’s old: Due to a rugged geography that makes infrastructure development very capital intensive, Brazil depends on trucks to move things from place to place. Over 60 percent of all Brazilian cargo is transported by truck, compared to just 32 percent in the U.S. That’s why a roughly 10-day trucker strike against high diesel prices brou…