In an article published on the Council on Foreign Relations Democracy in Development blog on June 20, 2013 Isobel Coleman, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Director of the Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Initiative, describes the peaceful protests of the middle class in Brazil demanding “more effective and transparent investments in … education, health care, and infrastructure” as well as “greater efforts to tackle corruption.”
You may read the article on the Council on Foreign Relations Democracy in Development blog.