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Brazil & Southern Cone - September 2015 (ISSN 1741-4431)
POLITICS: No let-up in the pressure on Rousseff
By tradition, Brazilian presidents address the nation on 7 September to commemorate Independence Day. Once again, however, advisors to President Dilma Rousseff decided to avoid such a move to ensure that her speech was not drowned out by the banging of pots and pans. While she did appear alongside the vice-president, Michel Temer, on the reviewing stand of the military parade that took place in Brasília, she was protected by a tall metal barrier, ostensibly for security reasons, but also to prevent boos from the crowd. The presidential entourage was not able to do anything, however, about the giant inflatable dolls of former president Lula da Silva in prison uniform and Rousseff with a Pinocchio nose brought by anti-government activists to the event.
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