Tens
of thousands of demonstrators have held protests across Brazil calling
for Dilma Rousseff to step down, blaming the president for the
corruption and economic troubles besetting Latin America’s largest
country.
The
rolling demonstrations began on Sunday in the capital Brasilia, where
organisers said 45,000 people attended, while police put the number at
25,000.
Next
came the 2016 Olympic host city Rio de Janeiro, where an Olympic
bicycling test event had to be rerouted as tens of thousands took over
the seafront avenue along Copacabana Beach.
Another
protest was held in the country’s financial capital Sao Paulo, with
more gatherings staged in about 200 towns and cities, organisers said.
“I’m
coming out to show my indignation,” said Mosack, 65, wearing the canary
yellow jersey of Brazil’s national soccer team as he joined a sea of
green and yellow along Sao Paulo’s central thoroughfare Avenida
Paulista.
It
was the third nationwide day of protests against Rousseff’s government
to be held this year, following large-scale demonstrations in March and
April.
Rousseff is
fighting for her political life amid a snowballing corruption scandal
involving the oil company Petrobras that has embroiled politicians from
her Workers’ Party, as well as a sputtering economy, spiraling currency
and rising inflation.
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