It's about a ruge protest in Brazil... I think everybody need to know what is happening here!

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In a country not accustomed to too many public demonstrations, the response of the authorities has been severe, with police tear-gassing and shooting rubber balls at protestors. In Sao Paulo, 100 people have been hurt and 250 arrested on Wednesday alone, as reported local newspaper Jornal do Dia. Rio de Janeiro witnessed damage to public property, including bus stops, garbage bins and official buildings, by vandalizing protesters, said the newspaper O Globo.

The ticket price increase coincided with weakness in the Brazilian stock market and currency and a decline in the popularity of President Dilma Rousseff.




Public transportation in Brazil is not cheap, particularly for the masses of working poor who earn minimum wage. A single-ride ticket in Sao Paulo allows a maximum of four trips in three hours, and now costs 3.20 reais ($1.50), up from a previous price of 3 reais. In a city in which many people work six days a week, two trips a day can push the cost of public transport to more than 200 reais a month ($93), whereas the monthly minimum wage is 678 reais ($317).

However, in some cities the protests drew results: for example, in the northeastern coastal city of Natal, local authorities reduced the price of bus tickets to their original cost.

The huge metropolis of Sao Paulo witnessed the most violent of demonstrations on Wednesday night, with over 5,000 protestors taking the streets and the police responding with force -- six journalists from the daily Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper were hurt in the melee.

Sao Paulo’s mayor Fernando Haddad admitted afterwards that police had acted with excessive force.

And it looks like it’s only the beginning: Sao Paulo’s protesters. announced there will be another demonstration next Tuesday.

(http://www.ibtimes.com/brazilians-protest-against-rise-bus-fares-enter-fourth-day-turn-violent-1308439)
(http://www.anonymousbrasil.com/brasil/protesto-contra-o-aumento-da-passagem/)

I don't live near Sao Paulo, but I can say that the situation there isn't peaceful. The problem is not only the increase in the price of tickets of public transportation, but the dissatisfaction of the population in general. Lots of people depend on public trasnportation daily, and a increase in the price would cause a lot of damage afterwards; and the problem is that everybody knows that the money will not be used in favor of the population, but it will go to the pockets of the government. Also, next year the World Cup will be held in Brazil; there are a lot of protests with the purpose of alerting all country about the quantity of money spend to build stadiums and such, money that could be used to improve education, healthcare and many others. I think the population finally realized that the government is playing with their money and they are finally doing something against the corruption of the governemnt.

But there's the right way to protest and there's the wrong way. Some people are manifesting pacifically, but other people are vandalizing public property; in the same way, there are policemen who knows how to control the prostestants and there are policemen who abuse their authority; but I can't say that the police are completely wrong or right, and the same counts for the prostestants.

Well, it's something like chaos. I just hope for the best in the end; but I'm glad people finally realized that they cannot just stand still while the government steals tax money and such. I just hope that all of that will bring positive results and the damage will be minimum...

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I think its safe to say not just brazil but many places over in south america are in an unusual amount of turmoil. Venezuela for example has been dealing in a lot trying not to start a civil war because of this last elections, theres a lot of corruption and the more people know the sooner things can be put in order.

Some of the Dollars where I'm from are protesting here to help them

GHF is actually bumping a worthy article? The sun must be rising from the West!

>>2 I have to agree with Hanabi though. Riots and destruction of property is not the right way to protest. Just look at all those cars that were burnt and destroyed. Someone, a human, owned that car. It might be a middle class worker who recently took out a loan in order to be able to afford it. It might be a truck driver whose livelihood depends on it. Unless if you are smashing up a Ferrari or other supercars, you are most likely hurting someone in a similar situation to you. Even if it is a supercar, there's still a good change that its owner was a self made man, and you are venting your anger on the wrong target.

Riots will only further damage a country's economy. Rioters deserve no mercy. Nobody forced them to cause destructions. If you want to protest against the government, do it peacefully, or start an actual rebellion/war to overthrow the government.

>>6 please ninja You Know Who in the future.

Actually, now that whole thing has reached another level, most of the protest are being peaceful. Most people now understand the real reason(s) they have to fight for and they're doing it right. Of course, idiot people will always be there to cause confusion, but for now most of the protests are being pacific.

People just got tired of being abused by the powers that should be protecting them. I just hope that the consequences for all of this are positive, and that people don't lose focus.

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Well I am Brazilian, and about the protests really a porsentagem of protesters are to only make a mess, the problem is that the media only shows this part, so what outsiders see is so messy so good most now this well organized and without turmoil.

>>9 Thanks for you're insight. It's like how people were craping on cop cars at the occupy protests. That doesn't represent the whole. By the way, I read your post in Simon's voice for some reason.