Called for by Rede Globo, fueled by the mischievous headline of Folha de S. Paulo, and legitimized by those military police officers who only use force when the protesters smell of the people, Sunday's protests were embarrassingly underwhelming compared to the expectations of their organizers-negotiators.
It became clear that many people who attended the previous demonstration on March 15th, driven by a genuine feeling of both revolt and hope, decided to leave.
Those who were there this time were the staunchly anti-democratic – the bootlickers of the military – and the uninformed fools, apart from the selfie-obsessed right-wingers, eager to unleash their depoliticized exhibitionism at any public event, be it a funeral or a rock concert.
The media, controlled by the oligarchy and the privileged, opened its cameras and pages to try and reanimate the corpse of the impeachment. It woke up early on Sunday. It mobilized noisy helicopters. It twisted and distorted.
Globo wants impeachment, Folha too (I won't mention Estadão because, as everyone knows, Estadão is dead, may it rest in peace). But it's difficult to convince the country to remove Dilma and put in her place a vice-president – and it's Datafolha that has to admit, albeit very reluctantly – whom nobody knows.
The anti-democrats and the fools will surely return to the streets, encouraged by the media of the Pharisees and protected by the police who, at other times, assault the true rebels, those who genuinely thirst for justice.
But the coup has become more difficult, that's for sure.