Brazil police violently crackdown on nationwide protests

2013-06-17 · first published in marxsite · 126 words

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Via Digital Journal - see more videos here While the world's attention is focused on protests in Turkey and Syria's civil war, a growing wave of nationwide protests in Brazil has been met by a violent police crackdown. For the better part of the past two weeks, Brazilians have taken to the streets to display their discontent and despair over a host of social, economic and political ills. It all started in the nation's two largest cities, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, where residents angry about a 10-cent bus and subway fare increase turned out in the thousands to voice their indignation. The Rio Times reports that 20,000 people demonstrated in São Paulo and as many as 10,000 took to Rio's streets for Thursday's protests.