Police in Ceará went on strike and in at least one case ordered stores to close. The state is falling apart. The Ferreira Gomes family, which exerts immense power in the state and the city of Sobral in particular (where their foothold in politics dates to the 1890s), has three notable brothers in its ruling generation: Ciro, who ran in 2018, Ivo, current mayor of Sobral, and Cid, senator for the state. Cid tried to argue with policemen and gave them five minutes to abandon their positions. When they didn't comply he charged their positions with a digger and was met with gunfire. His wounds were minimal and he's alive.

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That's just natural when redistribution is at play in a budget spanning regions with great wealth disparities. That's the root of the north/south dichotomy in Brazilian elections which only arose in 2006, the expansion of the welfare state expanded São Paulo and the rest of the center-south's role as net providers and the Northeast's as net receivers. Soon the receivers were unassailable bastions of the ruling party and the providers gradually joined the opposition. Only solutions are to somehow split the budget, bridge the wealth disparity between the regions or not begin the redistribution in the first place.