Brazil Truck Strike Enters Fifth Day as Drivers Defy Union Agreement With Government

Roads are blocked and supplies to businesses and consumers have been cut off

Jeffrey T. Lewis and

Luciana Magalhaes

Updated May 25, 2018 1:27 p.m. ET

SÃO PAULO—Brazil’s government will use the military and federal police forces to stop truckers from blockading highways as a five-day-old strike halted shipments of food, fuel and other vital supplies to most of the country.

Roads...