Senator Fernando Bezerra Coelho, a former government whip who still acts as rapporteur for bills that are important to President Jair Bolsonaro, promised to deliver a report this week on a bill aimed at reducing taxes on diesel and cooking gas. Mr. Coelho also pledged to include one additional measure in the proposal: a voucher for truckers to buy fuel.
High diesel prices hit truckers particularly hard – and as the cost of oil surges worldwide, the price of diesel at the pump in Brazil has gone up by more than 50 percent in the past year. This ‘trucker...
