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  • Middle-class rage sparks protest movements in Turkey, Brazil, Bulgaria and beyond

    06/28/2013 2:58:57 PM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 20 replies
    Washington Post ^ | June 28, 2013 | By Anthony Faiola and Paula Moura
    Around the globe, this is the summer of middle-class discontent, particularly in the developing world. From Istanbul to Rio de Janeiro, from Bulgaria to Bosnia, the pent-up frustrations of an engaged citizenry are being triggered by a series of seemingly disparate events. Thousands of protestors, including an outpouring of middle-class citizens, are expected in Cairo’s Tarhrir Square this Sunday. They return to the touchstone plaza of the Arab Spring in a nation that exchanged a dictator for what many Egyptians now see as a new government unwilling or unable to fix a corrupt bureaucracy and inefficient economy.