Hundreds of thousands marched in Guatemala, El Salvador, Colombia, Venezuela, Chile and Bolivia. Tens of thousands marched in Uruguay, while more than a million demonstrated in Ecuador. Argentinean workers joined workers from Paraguay, Brazil and Uruguay on the Uruguay-Brazil border in a show of international solidarity. In Mexico hundreds of thousands marched in a country where less than a third of its 36 million workers have full-time employment, and where the workers' share of the GDP has dropped from 40 percent to 30 percent in the last five years. Over 90,000 workers marched through the industrial center of San Paulo.
Brazil is the most economically unequal country in the world, exceeding even the United States.
The richest 10 percent in Brazil reap nearly half the country's income while the poorest 40 percent earn just 9 percent of the total. The WSWS invites your comments. Please send e-mail .