RECESSION, TRUCKERS STOPPED, INFLATION IN HIGH. PORTRAIT OF A BRAZIL THE EDGE OF CHAOSA wave of demonstrations, strikes and layoffs of workers takes care of Brazil. On Tuesday (24) truckers interdicted eight sections of federal roads in the state of Minas Gerais. The protest extends for more than 48 hours and prevents the passage of cargo vehicles. Just passenger cars and bus had released the circulation.Yesterday, several highways were blocked by truckers protesting against high fuel, and public employees and outsourced workers crossed their arms in search of wage increases. To make matters worse, workers in the automotive industry were laid off or forced to take a vacation and companies involved in Petrobras scandal continue to close jobs because they claim not receive funds to meet commitments.The government sparked an alert to the problems spread across all regions of Brazil. Analysts say the trend is that the situation from getting worse, since the country is plunged into a recession. They estimate that the low economic growth and rising inflation should accelerate the process of layoffs, which will result in increased unemployment. And the pressures against the measures taken by the Executive to adjust the public accounts are also criticized. In seven states in the country truckers crossed the arms but the Attorney General of the Union (AGU) filed suits in Federal Court in order to suspend the roadblocks.Workers complain that the price of fuel has increased and the freight remains unchanged. Professional drivers still demand the fall in the price of tolls, better road conditions in the country and different tax rates in cargo transportation.With the stopped trucks traffic, several companies were affected. In the Fiat factory in Betim, workers were released for a second day due to the prospect of missing parts for the assembly of cars.There are about 6000 employees laid off. Whereas the plant produces about 3 thousand cars daily in two rounds of stoppage causes at least 2 million vehicles fail to be produced per day.On Monday, about 6000 workers of the second and third rounds had already been released. According to Fiat, they are being laid off because the protest prevented the auto parts and components used in the manufacture of vehicles arrive at the scheduled time. The Betim factory is located in BR-381 (Fernao Dias highway), the main link between Sao Paulo and Belo Horizonte. The unit is on a high industrial concentration area, next to the refinery of Petrobras Gabriel Passos.Fiat says it is monitoring the protest, "in the expectation that the situation returns to normal", to decide when workers must return. The automaker said the night-shift employees (23h-5h) are "mobilized" to go to work on Tuesday, if the situation of the roads improve throughout the day. The company does not rule out having to dismiss employees again tomorrow.In the warehouse Ceasa in Contagem, the flow of goods had not been affected by the stoppage, but technicians do the survey to measure the situation.The director of expansion, sustainability and agropecuaria BRF, Luiz Stabile, reported that without the movement of trucks for freight transportation, the company