Protests show no sign of abating

Some 80,000 Brazilians took to the streets again on June 20 in several cities on a new day of mass nationwide protests, demanding better public services, bemoaning massive spending to stage the World Cup, and railing against corruption. More than one million people have pledged via social media networks to march in 80 cities across Brazil, as the two-week-old protest movement – the biggest seen in the South American country in 20 years – showed no sign of abating. The protesters scored a major victory when authorities in Sao Paulo and Rio, Brazil’s two biggest cities, canceled controversial transit fare hikes, but that was not enough to placate the demonstrators.

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