Demonstrators protest for better public services, a new political system and against the Brazilian PEC37 draft law, a proposed constitutional amendment that would take away the power of independent public prosecutors to probe crimes making it harder to combat corruption, in downtown Porto Alegre, Brazil, on June 24, 2013. Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff proposed a referendum on a broad “political reform” to deal with the country’s unprecedented social unrest. AFP PHOTO / Vinicius Costa (Photo credit should read Vinicius Costa/AFP/Getty Images)
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