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Related: About this forumOver 1 million Brazilians protest Rousseff, economy, corruption
Source: Reuters
BY PAULO PRADA
RIO DE JANEIRO Sun Mar 15, 2015 5:45pm EDT
(Reuters) - Over one million demonstrators marched in cities and towns across Brazil on Sunday to protest a sluggish economy, rising prices and corruption - and to call for the impeachment of leftist President Dilma Rousseff.
The marches across the continent-sized country come as Brazil struggles to overcome economic and political malaise and pick up the pieces of a boom that crumbled once Rousseff took office in 2011.
Rousseff, now early into her second four-year term, is unlikely to resign or face the impeachment proceedings called for by many opponents. A fifth year of economic stagnation and a multibillion dollar corruption scandal at state-run energy company Petroleo Brasileiro SA, or Petrobras has fueled their anger.
But for a president narrowly re-elected just five months ago, the protests are a sign of a polarized country increasingly unhappy with its leadership. Rousseff has recently been jeered at public appearances and Brazilians in some cities banged pots during a televised speech she made earlier this month.
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Marksman_91
(2,035 posts)COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)OBenario
(604 posts)... 82% of the protesters voted for right-wing candidate Aécio Neves.
Several of them were far-right activists asking for a military coup.
Several of them were rich people, including this lady in the picture below, who happens to be one of the owners of Brazil's largest private bank.
Take a look at this picture from the protest in Salvador, Bahia:
Salvador is known as "the Black Rome". The capital of Afro-Brazilian culture. 3 in each 4 inhabitants of Salvador are black.
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Please, find a black person in this picture.
Do you think this is "the people" marching?
A bunch of right-wingers who can not accept the result of the 2014 election.
marble falls
(57,080 posts)OBenario
(604 posts)A couple more:
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And here a closer look into the real nature of the protesters. Not, they are not "democracy lovers". They are fascists.
Judi Lynn
(160,527 posts)They want their malignant power back over the entire country.
Judi Lynn
(160,527 posts)Last edited Tue Mar 17, 2015, 07:25 PM - Edit history (1)
This is EXACTLY what we needed to see: the real images, the faces, the people driving this right-wing wave of nastiness.
What an amazing way to make your appearance here: bearing the truth to a place where it's wildly needed!
Judi OLynn!
OBenario
(604 posts)Very nice to read your post!