Brazil stuns the world with an angry undercurrent

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And amid all the anger, politicians are taking it on the nose. People want solutions to their everyday problems.

"Enough corruption already," protesters shouted Thursday in Sao Paulo. Another slogan was that a united people does not even need political parties.

Years of corruption scandals that stained politicians of all stripes, including the Workers Party, blended with anger over meager public services to create "a chasm between civil society and the world of politics," said Chico Alencar, a lawmaker from a party that formed by breaking away from Lula's.

The young people crowding the streets of Brazil in recent days "were eight years old when Lula came to power. They did not live through the transition to democracy," Alencar said.

So for them, he said, the Workers Party, in power for a decade and tracing its roots back to social and union movements, "is an institutionalized conservative party."

http://www.france24.com/en/20130621-brazil-stuns-world-with-angry-undercurrent

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1. the soccer world offers circuses. at least the romans included bread nt

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2. I don't think that mood is confined to Brazil

Will NSA pitch-in to quell disent, when 'nessary'?

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3. Not really surprising to students of history

When the country turned left under Lula and the slums started to see a few basic services they'd never had before (like reliable electricity), there was a period of unrealistic hope that poverty itself could be cured. After a while, progress seemed to crawl too slowly and people started to get angry about that.

That's really what this is about and Roussef was extremely wise in what she said in terms of her plans and of who is picking up the lion's share of the tab for the World Cup.

Had they been moving at all toward the Stalinist model, the riots would have been put down with tanks.