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Security & Strategic Review - August 2013 (ISSN 1741-4202)
BRAZIL: Black Bloc hijacks protest actions
Protest demonstrations, which in June managed to draw up to a million people into Brazil’s streets, have not ended. They have continued through July and August, but hardly ever attracting hundreds — but featuring with increasing frequency destructive actions by masked persons dressed in black, many of them identified as local offshoots of the Black Block phenomenon that began in Europe in the early 1980s. As they gear up for a countrywide series of actions on 7 September, some of them are having second thoughts about their tactics.
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