SAO PAULO, (APP/AFP): Police fired tear gas
late Monday to disperse demonstrators who lit fires in the street of Sao Paulo to protest the looming impeachment of suspended president Dilma Rousseff.
Riot police and trucks dispersed several thousand protesters on the main Paulista avenue in the center of the country’s economic capital.
The protest came as Rousseff defended herself in the capital Brasilia in the Senate, whose members were expected to vote to impeach her by Wednesday.
Protesters in Sao Paulo blocked streets with burning bins and barriers.
Some 2,000 Rousseff supporters also rallied near the Senate in Brasilia and
a few hundred in Rio de Janeiro, but no incidents were reported.
“Temer out! Dilma come back,” protesters in Brasilia yelled.
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Brazil police fire tear gas at impeachment protesters
