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A couple carrying two boxes of chicken eggs were expelled by militants from the PT (Workers' Party) of Santos Andrade Square, in the center of Curitiba, where the caravan of former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT) around the South region of Brazil. Entrepreneur Fabio Monroe, 44, and commercial manager Rosângela Araújo, 47, were forced to leave the square under threat from PT militants who said "bourgeois here, no." One of them poured water on the couple. Asked about what they were doing in the act with the boxes of eggs Monroe replied: "If they are doing their democratic exercise, we also want to. Eggs are to do what the people of Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina have done in the last few days." Lula and his caravan were greeted with eggs in almost every city they passed through in the caravan that ends today after nine days. The couple came to the police after the expulsion, but the police said they couldn't do anythi...

Drivers protesting in highway with bad conservation state Drivers facing the holes of the RS-786 road, on the north coast of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, decided to put a couch in the middle of the track to alert anyone who travels there. A driver passed the spot around noon on 20 November when he saw the sofa in the height of 29 km, between Tramandaí and Cidreira. He stopped to take a picture, that practically viralizou on social networks. According to him, the situation is so critical that many people have risked not very orthodox ways. "People are already using the edge of the beach to haven't to go there, because that stretch is impossible to travel on," he added. There are several reports of drivers who accumulate losses breaking cars in the holes or even getting involved in accidents, because of the poor maintenance of the highway, says the driver. In the months of heat, the stretch gain a much larger movement by the arrival of touri...

After the revelation of numerous cases of corruption involving the current president of Brazil and members of the federal government, thousands of people are going to the streets of several cities every weekends to protest, but the main TV channels ( Globo , SBT , Bandeirantes and Record ) don't exhibit these manifestations and prefer to display news about violence cases in USA and European countries.