A million people across Brazil say “it’s not about 20 cents”

by OSCAR LEON

Brazil saw the biggest number of people in the streets since the demonstrations began, this despite having forced the government to lower the bus fare the day before on Wednesday the 19th, when President Dilma Rousseff was humiliated on live TV worldwide.

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According to the Folha de S. Paulo, more than a million people came out to the streets to demonstrate and present a new list of demands, showing that the bus fare was not enough. Military police estimated that 939,500 people marched in Brazil’s 14 main state capital cities and 100 cities overall, demanding much more than 20 cents reduction in the bus fare. Now five points have been put forward by the assemblies of demonstrators in the main cities.

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