What Brazil’s 2013 Protests Tell Us About Chile 2019
What Brazil’s 2013 Protests Tell Us About Chile 2019
By
Thomas Traumann
"Nothing will ever return to normal," writes a former Brazilian official.
RIO DE JANEIRO – It has become conventional wisdom to compare the current protests in Chile to Brazil’s “Marches of June,” which took place six years ago. Then as now, what began with a small group of college students protesting against an increase in public transportation fees quickly became a national catharsis, with hundreds of thousands in the streets. I worked then as the Dilma Rousseff administration’s...
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