SÃO PAULO—Students and teachers took to the streets across Brazil Wednesday to protest spending freezes, marking the first nationwide demonstrations against President Jair Bolsonaro as he struggles to maintain his popularity while warding off a deep fiscal crisis. The fiery right-wing leader labeled the demonstrators “useful idiots and imbeciles” after tens of thousands of people marched across the capital city Brasília and all of Brazil’s 26 states.

Source: Wall Street Journal May 15, 2019 22:07 UTC