Victória Álvares

Six weeks before Brazil's heated 2018 presidential elections, striking truck drivers set up hundreds of blockades all across the country, believing military intervention to be their only salvation. But when the army finally arrives to put an end to the crisis, nothing goes quite as expected.

Brazil, May 2018. Presidential elections are approaching as the economic and political crisis intensifies. Amid the chaos, the class of truck drivers, responsible for the supply of large cities, starts a blockade on the roads, aggravating tensions. However, amidst the demands for better working conditions, there is also a discourse for the military intervention that distorts.

Cris and her family, residents of Ibura, on the outskirts of Recife, had to abandon their home due to the risk of collapse at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Pregnant with her fourth child and fighting for a tubal ligation, Cris works as a digital influencer while the family rebuilds their home.

Six weeks before Brazil's heated 2018 presidential elections, striking truck drivers set up hundreds of blockades all across the country, believing military intervention to be their only salvation. But when the army finally arrives to put an end to the crisis, nothing goes quite as expected.

Brazil, May 2018. Presidential elections are approaching as the economic and political crisis intensifies. Amid the chaos, the class of truck drivers, responsible for the supply of large cities, starts a blockade on the roads, aggravating tensions. However, amidst the demands for better working conditions, there is also a discourse for the military intervention that distorts.

Cris and her family, residents of Ibura, on the outskirts of Recife, had to abandon their home due to the risk of collapse at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Pregnant with her fourth child and fighting for a tubal ligation, Cris works as a digital influencer while the family rebuilds their home.

Cris and her family, residents of Ibura, on the outskirts of Recife, had to abandon their home due to the risk of collapse at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Pregnant with her fourth child and fighting for a tubal ligation, Cris works as a digital influencer while the family rebuilds their home.

Cris and her family, residents of Ibura, on the outskirts of Recife, had to abandon their home due to the risk of collapse at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Pregnant with her fourth child and fighting for a tubal ligation, Cris works as a digital influencer while the family rebuilds their home.