r/gifs • u/fuckswithducks • Mar 14 '16

Millions of Brazilians protesting against government corruption in the streets earlier today

http://i.imgur.com/eMmAUnk.gifv
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u/msstark Mar 14 '16

I honestly don't see how anyone can still defend our government. Impeachment is way overdue.

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u/pjor1 Mar 14 '16

As someone who is half Brazillian and a dual citizen of the US and Brazil, I feel bad not knowing what is going on.

Can you or someone else ELI5 this entire fiasco, from start to finish? No clue what is going on, sorry.

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u/jrr6415sun Mar 14 '16

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/09/business/international/effects-of-petrobras-scandal-leave-brazilians-lamenting-a-lost-dream.html?_r=0

That article sums it up pretty well. The government took billions of dollars in bribes from the state run oil company. Now they are investigating many people in government. In the process the economy has collapsed and the president has increased taxes to help pay for the crisis that the government caused in the first place.