Up to 200,000 protesters march through the streets of Brazil's largest city last Monday into widespread anger at the swelling wave of protests in the poor public services, police brutality and government corruption.
The parade, organized mostly through snowballing social media campaigns, clogging the streets and more than half a dozen cities, including Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Brasilia, where protesters climbed to the roof of the Capitol in Brazil and then stop the onslaught of traffic.
Monday the latest burst of protest demonstrations in the past two weeks has been added to growing unease over Brazil's economic downturn, high inflation and a spurt of violent crimes.
Although most of the protests unfolded dissidents festival show in Rio de Janeiro, some of the demonstrators threw stones at a police car parked arson, destruction of the State Capitol. Vandals also destroyed property in the southern city of Porto Alegre.
Throughout the country, demonstrators waving the Brazilian flag, dancing and shouting slogans such as "People's Awakening" and "Please forgive the inconvenience, Brazil is changing."
The epicenter of Monday's march of about 65,000 was transferred from Sao Paulo, including in the late afternoon, the streets of Rio de Janeiro. There, demonstrators gathered in the evening, the crowd surged to 10 million people, local police said. At least 20,000 gathered in Belo Horizonte.
Demonstration is the first time, Brazilians, because of the recent decades of steady economic growth, the collective questioning the status quo.
Big events loom
Protest accelerated Confederations Cup held in Brazil, next year's World Cup soccer tournament preview. The Government hopes these events, as well as the 2016 Summer Olympics, will showcase Brazil as an emerging power in the global arena.
Brazil is gearing up to welcome over 2 million visitors in July, the Pope Francis Catholic youth gathering in Rio de Janeiro, making his first visit.
Contrast billions of dollars of taxpayers' money to spend on a new stadium with Brazil shoddy state of public services, the demonstrators using a corresponding Confederations Cup to amplify their concerns. The tournament has been shaky start, this weekend, when police clashed with protesters outside the stadium's opening match in Brasilia and Rio de Janeiro.
", Said:" Over the years, the government has fueled corruption, people demonstrating against the system Graciela Cacador, a 28-year-old saleswoman in Sao Paulo protest. "They have spent billions of dollars to build stadiums and no education and health."
The coming days, more protests are being organized. It is unclear what specific responses authorities - such as reducing transport costs rise - the organizers consider stopping in Brazil they cause loose collection.
President Rousseff (Dilma Rousseff), protests are a delicate time, prices and sluggish growth began shrouded election next year's expected.
Opinion polls show Rousseff is still widely popular, especially the poor and working-class voters, but her support rate began to decline in recent weeks, since he took office in 2011 for the first time. Rousseff in Saturday's Confederations Cup opener boos protesters gathered outside.
Through a spokesman, Rousseff called the protest "legitimate" and said that peaceful demonstrations are "part of democracy." President, leftist guerrillas as a young woman, also said it was "appropriate youth protest."
Widespread grievances
Some inexplicable protests in a country's unemployment rate remained close to record lows, even after more than two years of tepid economic growth.
"They need to do - every day march?" Asked Christina, a 43-year-old cashier, he refused to give her last name from a butcher shop closed the curtain behind Sao Paulo, a peek at the demonstrators. She said that corruption and other ancient ills in Brazil will not change soon.
Procession began this month in Sao Paulo for small bus and subway fares increased an isolated protest. Demonstrators initially drew scorn of many middle-class Brazilians, the demonstrators destroyed the stores, subway stations and bus stops, one of the main cities.
The movement quickly spread to other cities to get the support and heavy-handed tactics used by the police to quell demonstrations. In Sao Paulo on Thursday, the biggest blow occurred when the police fired rubber bullets and tear gas, conflicts, more than 100 people were injured, including 15 reporters, some of whom say they deliberate targeting.
Other common grievances, including corruption in Monday's march and weaknesses and overcrowded public transport network, the Brazilians cope with daily.
Police to show restraint
Last week's protest against the harsh police response touched a nerve in Brazil, endured decades of political repression under the military dictatorship, ending in 1985. It also increases the doubts whether next year's World Cup, Brazil's police forces will be ready.
Following last week's crackdown uproar prompted Sao Paulo state governor Geraldo Alckmin, who first described the protesters as "troublemakers" and "saboteurs", security police, so that Monday in March, rather than the use of rubber bullets.
Protest shaping Alckmin, former presidential candidate, and St. Paul's new mayor Fernando Haddad leftist Workers' Party has ruled Brazil in the last decade as a rising star in the major political challenges. Haddad invited to meet protest leaders Tuesday morning, but so far refused to call the bus fare reduction.
Resonance demonstrators stressed economists say Brazil Rousseff and other leaders in the coming years will be a challenge: to provide public services to meet the needs of the growing middle class.
Christopher Garman, political analyst at the Eurasia Group, wrote in a report: "Voters are likely to be increasingly dissatisfied with low growth environment, the scope of the public service,."
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