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Security & Strategic Review - June 2013 (ISSN 1741-4202)
Brazil’s stormy June: not Turkey or Egypt
When in little less than a fortnight in June Brazil was overwhelmed by a wave of demonstrations which at one point attracted more than 1.2m participants, comparisons with Tahrir square in Cairo and Taksim square in Ankara were inevitable. They did have in common the size of the multitudes and their wholly unexpected nature. There was, however, one big difference: the Brazilians did not take to the streets to overthrow their government. To this could be added that the Brazilian demonstrators did get much of what they had been demanding — though the broader political consequences are not yet discernible.
- Brazil’s stormy June: not Turkey or Egypt
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