Demonstrators protest for better public services, a new political system and against 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 Monday (Tuesday in Manila). AFP PHOTO
BRASILIA: President Dilma Rousseff on Monday (Tuesday in Manila) proposed a referendum on political reform, scrambling to defuse unprecedented social unrest in Brazil that sparked two weeks of nationwide street protests.