Brazilian protesters call for President Dilma Rousseff's impeachment
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33953606Tens of thousands of people have taken part in protests across Brazil calling for the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff.
Support for Ms Rousseff has fallen to single-digit figures in recent polls.
Many voters have accused her of failing to stamp out corruption and blame her for the economy's worst slump in 25 years.
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Police said about 137,000 people took part, but tens of the thousands of others were also involved in a demonstration in Sao Paulo.
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Anti-government protesters take to streets across Brazil
Stan Lehman, Associated Press
Updated 6:40 pm, Sunday, August 16, 2015
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilians took to the streets of cities and towns across the country Sunday for anti-government protests being watched as a barometer of discontent with the increasingly unpopular President Dilma Rousseff.
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But the protests drew relatively modest crowds, likely giving the president some breathing room. Huge numbers had come out for two earlier rounds of demonstrations this year.
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The Datafolha polling firm estimated 135,000 people demonstrated against Rousseff on Sao Paulo's Avenida Paulista, one of the city's largest avenues, while state police put the number at 350,000. Crowd-counting experts have long criticized Brazilian police estimates, saying they overestimate crowds by relying on photos of only the most crowded areas to estimate a gathering. Datafolha breaks the avenue up into sections and gauges density for each section.
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The demonstrations were called largely by web-based activist groups with demands ranging from Rousseff's impeachment to a return to military dictatorship like the one that ruled the country in 1964-85.
http://www.chron.com/news/world/article/Anti-government-protests-sweep-Brazil-6447176.php
