Latin America

Bacchus4.0

(6,837 posts) Mon Aug 17, 2015, 09:47 AM Aug 2015

Brazilians rage against president, corruption

http://news.yahoo.com/protesters-across-brazil-demand-rousseff-impeachment-144235718.html

Sao Paulo (AFP) - Hundreds of thousands of protesters demanded Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's resignation Sunday, blaming her and the leftist Workers' Party for runaway corruption and looming recession in Latin America's biggest country.

Crowds singing the national anthem and chanting "Dilma out!" paraded through the capital Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro, the country's largest city Sao Paulo and elsewhere across Brazil.

---------------------------
It was the third major anti-Rousseff protest this year, with 600,000 demonstrators taking to the streets in April and at least one million in March.

Less than a year into her second term, Rousseff is all but a lame duck, with the opposition considering controversial impeachment proceedings, and the country's elite caught in a vast embezzlement scandal centered on state-oil company Petrobras.

2 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

Brazilians rage against president, corruption (Original Post) Bacchus4.0 Aug 2015 OP

Oh, that doesn't matter at all. Marksman_91 Aug 2015 #1

Yes, and despite the stupid signs, I also see the protests as festive and non-threatening compared Bacchus4.0 Aug 2015 #2

Marksman_91

(2,035 posts)

1. Oh, that doesn't matter at all.

Reply to Bacchus4.0 (Original post)

Mon Aug 17, 2015, 10:40 AM

Aug 2015

See, there's a couple of pictures going around of certain protesters calling for military intervention and wishing that things could be like back in the day when there was a dictatorship. Obviously those few represent the sentiments of ALL the many thousands that went out on the street against Dilma. After all, it's totally ok to generalize about people against leftist governments but totally not ok when one generalizes about anti-right wingers

Bacchus4.0

(6,837 posts)

2. Yes, and despite the stupid signs, I also see the protests as festive and non-threatening compared

Reply to Marksman_91 (Reply #1)

Mon Aug 17, 2015, 11:00 AM

Aug 2015

to those in Ecuador, what we've seen in Venezuela, and in the US. I think its great both on the protesters' and the authorities' part that the protests in Brazil are peaceful. Obernario doesn't think its so great though.

Reply to this discussion