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Re:Brazil: hundreds of thousands of protesters call for Rous... by dguaraglia on Monday March 16, 2015 @11:50AM (#9212122)
This is the only comment that rings true to me. I lived in Brazil for 7 years, and yes, people were unhappy with Lula before they were unhappy about Dilma Roussef. But overall, poor people (which is a substantial part of the population) were happy with their governments.

On the other hand, most people I knew voted for Lula and Dilma because they actually benefitted from their policies. When Lula left power his approval rate was something over 80%, which was better than any other president before him. And yet, if you asked the right people, you'd the country was about to explode because people were so unhappy.

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Re:Brazil: hundreds of thousands of protesters call for Rous... by andrenth on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @10:55AM (#9218308)
People are not happy here. The current president has taken unorthodox economic measures whose results we are now seeing. Electricity is up around 60% since last december due to the failure of the president's populist policies of controlling prices. Same for fuel, because Petrobras wasn't allowed to raise its prices, kept artificially low by the government in an attempt to control inflation.

The president was reelected on a campaign of lies, and is now doing what she accused and claimed her opponents would do, in one of the greatest cases of electoral embezzlement ever seen.

No, people are not happy with this government, and no, it's not only the rich.

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