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Courtyard of automaker crowded: crisis After four years of economic growth close to 0% and clumsy political actions committed by President Dilma Rousseff, the Brazil plunged into an economic crisis without limits: the shares of Brazilian companies fell sharply in international markets, the dollar value rises gradually every day, the industrial production is paralyzed and the purchasing power of the middle class fell for the third consecutive year. But the main sector of the economy that was affected, was the automotive sector. Increase in industry taxes, imported parts more expensive, bureaucratic and inflexible labor laws, labors without skilled labor, lending difficulties and low purchasing power of most of the population, are factors that are contributing to the automakers not able to sell their vehicles and therefore are paralyzing their activities (Fiat and Ford) and firing (VW and GM) and even leaving the country (Mahimdra). Mahindra: end of activities in Brazil ...

VW Gol abandoned: homeless residence A car parked for more than a month in the city of São Vicente, on the coast of São Paulo, is serving room for the homeless. The reader Regina Travesso, who works near where the vehicle, sent pictures about the fact. The city resident asked for a traffic officer withdrew the location of the car because the vehicle is abandoned in a parking area regulated. "He told me that in the courtyard there aren't vacancies. But if there are no vacancies, which make cars that are fined and towed? We see the cars being pushed from one side to the other, being plucked every day," says Regina . The reader also said that criminals are stealing auto parts.