It began as a protest over rising public transport costs but is fast spreading into a far wider revolt — over corruption, public services, and spending on the football World Cup.
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Another protest against rising prices. Could it be that the substantial higher oil prices from 2008 onward are only now starting to hurt people worldwide?
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Hikes in bus and metro fares sparked protests on June 13 in Sao Paolo and Rio de Janiero, Brazil. Thousands of people, many of them students took to the streets. There were some clashes with police.
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Rumors that Brazil’s social security fund called Bolsa Familia was to be cancelled led thousands of people to rush to withdraw money from a Brazilian bank over the weekend.
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The Cuban health professionals would be deployed in areas where there is a shortage of medical facilities. Income from Cuban medical staff working overseas, particularly in Venezuela, is a key source of hard currency for the Americas’ only Communist-ruled nation.
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This could turn out to be of interest.
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Non-governmental organisations say the number of landless activists killed over the past years has fallen but that the number of death threats issued against them has almost tripled.
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For the first time since 2002 Brazil may be forced to introduce power rationing, as high temperatures and a relentless drought in the Northeast have severely diminished reservoir levels. President Dilma Rousseff has called an emergency meeting to discuss energy shortages on Wednesday in BrasÃÂlia, reported Folha de São Paulo.
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The U.S. Export-Import Bank, an agency of the federal government, is lending 5 million to the Brazilian state of Ceara to help build an aquarium in its capital city of Fortaleza.
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He suggested that bank workers have an easy life compared to his multi-millionaire footballers. Not smart, angering the ruling elite.
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