SAO PAULO — Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Brazil on Sunday for antigovernment demonstrations across the continent-sized country.
It was the second such day of protests in less than a month and comes as polls show President Dilma Rousseff, four months into her second term, has historically low approval ratings amid a corruption scandal at the state-run oil company, Petrobras, as well as a sputtering economy, a rapidly depreciating currency, and political infighting.
The protest movement has been organized, mostly via social media, by an assortment of groups. Most call for Rousseff's impeachment, but they are joined by others with demands ranging from looser gun control laws to a military coup.
Television images showed crowds of demonstrators congregating in the capital, Brasilia, and cities from Belem in the Amazon rainforest region to the southern city of Curitiba.
Still, the crowds seemed thinner than at the March 15 demonstrations, when more than 200,000 people turned out just in Sao Paulo, Brazil's economic capital and an opposition bastion.