Brazil bracing for day of nationwide protests

Source: AP

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Anti-government demonstrators began streaming into the streets of cities throughout Brazil on Sunday to demand the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff.

It was the second such day of protests in less than a month and comes as polls show Rousseff entering the fourth month of her second term in office with historically low approval ratings.

Helicopter television images showed demonstrators, many of them dressed in the yellow and green colors of the Brazilian flag and brandishing placards reading "Dilma Out," congregating in the capital, Brasilia, in the northeastern cities of Salvador and Belem and in Belo Horizonte in central Brazil.

Demonstrations were expected later in Rio de Janeiro and in Brazil's economic capital, Sao Paulo, where more than 200,000 people turned out for the last round of demonstrations. The March 25 protest was among the biggest in Sao Paulo since demonstrations in 1984 demanding the end of the military dictatorship.

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Brazilian President Dilma Vana Rousseff speaks during a CEO Summit of the Americas panel discussion, Friday, April 10, 2015, in Panama City, Panama. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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