In the capital, Brasília, student protesters were filmed burning an effigy of the Brazilian president while chanting the increasingly common refrain of his opponents: “Hey, Bolsonaro go and get fucked”. Bolsonaro supporters take to Brazil’s streets as approval ratings drop Read moreThousands of students marched through downtown Rio with placards reading: “Education isn’t an expense, it is an investment”. “We knew it would be bad – but not this bad,” Iacovini, 33, said of Bolsonaro’s six-month-old administration. On 15 May tens of thousands of demonstrators staged nationwide protests against the cuts only to be belittled by Bolsonaro as “useful idiots” and “imbeciles”. Bolsonaro’s critics credit such comments, and the president’s broader offensive against public education, with helping to unify his opponents.

Source: The Guardian May 30, 2019 22:41 UTC