Brazil can’t afford to ignore protesters when they’re calling for the military | Antonis Vradis
by Antonis Vradis from Economics | The Guardian on (#53WN)
Disgruntled rightwingers or disillusioned generation, we must recognise the importance of their grievances
Under the scorching Rio de Janeiro sun and only metres from the famous Copacabana shoreline, even the most committed of Sunday's demonstrators seemed to give in to the indolence of the place, with an often surreal result: a handmade placard calling for the president's impeachment in one hand, a refreshing caipirinha in the other.
And even if this did not feel like your usual carefree Sunday stroll down Copa's Avenida Atlintica, it was nowhere close to the enraged and politically conscious crowd that shook the country just over two years ago.
As in the European south, Brazil is about to be trapped by the unrelenting demands of global capital
Related: Brazil: hundreds of thousands of protesters call for Rousseff impeachment
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