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Brazil strikes mar run-up to World Cup

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Sao Paulo - AFP

A bus drivers' strike stranded more than two million passengers in Sao Paulo, just 22 days before the Brazilian megacity hosts the opening match of the World Cup. Adding to concerns about public safety before the year's biggest sporting spectacle, police detectives staged a partial walkout in many parts of the country. The drivers' strike was scheduled to end at midnight, the union told AFP. Reports said 2.5 million people were left stranded Wednesday by the drivers' strike in the Brazilian economic capital, only the latest in the buildup to the World Cup and elections scheduled for October. Some drivers asked passengers to get out and abandoned their buses in the middle of the street, exacerbating the notorious traffic problems in the sprawling city of 20 million people, Brazil's biggest. The strike was scheduled to end at midnight, the drivers' union told AFP. Few of the city's 15,000 buses were running, and metro stations were flooded with commuters struggling to reach their destinations. Metro passengers fought among themselves for space on trains that were packed to the limit. "This strike is messing up all my plans. I had to leave at four in the morning to get to work on time, and now to get home I have to use the metro and a bus, which costs more money and takes longer," Maria Francisca Silva, a 46-year-old janitor, told AFP. The Brazilian press carried photos of enormous parking lots packed with buses in Sao Paulo, which will host the World Cup opening match on June 12. SPTrans said 12 of the city's 28 bus terminals were closed, mainly in the city center. Drivers are reportedly rebelling against their own union, which agreed a 10-percent pay increase in negotiations with management. Mayor Fernando Haddad condemned the strike, which caught him by surprise when it erupted Tuesday. "This is an unacceptable guerrilla war in the city of Sao Paulo. How do you get on a bus and ask a passenger to get out, park the bus in an intersection and take out the key? It's absurd that a union reaches a deal and a minority acts this way," he told Band TV. Gilberto Carvalho, secretary general of President Dilma Rousseff's staff, called the strike "irresponsible toward citizens." "We hope common sense prevails, that as the World Cup approaches these protests will diminish," he said. - 'Chaotic' security policies - Police put extra officers on the streets and used tear gas to break up a small protest at a bus depot early in the morning, news site G1 reported. Brazil's civilian police force, which handles criminal investigations, has opened a probe to see whether the strike is a crime. But the same police force was itself on strike in seven of Brazil's 26 states and the capital, Brasilia, calling for salary increases and the reform of what their union calls "chaotic" security policies. Thirty percent of the force stayed at work to handle emergencies. In Rio de Janeiro, crime reports from the public were being handled normally, according to Globo News. But the detectives' 24-hour strike reignited concerns over security preparations for the World Cup in a country that has one of the world's worst crime rates. Police in eight other states have also joined the movement, though instead of striking they were staging protest marches or holding rallies at police stations, their union said. In Brasilia, 500 detectives and federal police -- the force responsible for border security and immigration services -- marched to the justice ministry carrying signs with messages such as: "Without the civilian police there won't be a World Cup!" Officials responsible for World Cup security have said there are contingency plans in place to deal with any strikes during the tournament. As the World Cup clock ticks down, Brazil has also faced a new flare-up of protests against the more than $11 billion being spent on the tournament, which demonstrators say would have been better used on education, health care and transport. Similar protests last year during the Confederations Cup, a World Cup warm-up event, drew one million people into the streets and turned violent at times, embarrassing tournament organizers.

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