Over 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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... 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.
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.
