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ViewsWire. Protests in previous weeks over bus fare hikes by students of the Movimento Passe Libre group (MPL, Movement for Free Passes) have escalated into broader, nationwide demonstrations expressing popular dissatisfaction over a range of issues, including corruption, the poor quality of public services and the high costs of construction of football stadiums for the FIFA 2014 World Cup that will be staged in Brazil.
While it is hard to predict how long these protests will last, they are bound to contribute to a more heated political climate ahead of the October 2014 elections. Over 200,000 (mainly young, middle-class) Brazilians took to the streets on June 17th in more than a dozen cities in an escalation of protests that began two weeks ago against an increase of less than 10 US cents in public transport fares.
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