Brazil protests even hit top literary festival [1]

Yahoo.com - 7/05/13, Jenny Barchfield/AP

"We have gotten to a point in Brazil where the state has stopped representing public interest and has begun representing private interests," said Gil, culture minister under former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, whose hand-picked successor Dilma Rousseff is the target of much of the protesters' anger. "We want a little bit of rest."

He said the protests have tapped into the spirit of revolt that has recently swept the globe, with the Arab Spring and recent events in Egypt, the Occupy Wall Street movement, Spain's Indignados and the mass protests in Turkey. But he said the demonstrations in Brazil are essentially Brazilian in spirit, drawing heavily on the country's Carnival tradition.

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