Free Brazil Movement

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The Free Brazil Movement (Portuguese: Movimento Brasil Livre, MBL) is a Brazilian fiscally conservative and economically liberal movement founded on Saturday, 1 November 2014. It grew from the political dissatisfaction after the 2013 protests in Brazil, receiving funding from internal (e.g.: Democratas, PSDB, PMDB) sources. Its leader is the activist and lawmaker Kim Kataguiri. According to the newspaper Folha de S.Paulo, the MBL was mainly responsible for the convening of the demonstrations of 15 March and 12 April in 2015 against the social governmental establishment of Dilma Rousseff and the Workers' Party. The group's headquarters are located in São Paulo, and according to The Economist, was "founded last year to promote the answers of the free market for the country's problems". In a manifesto published on the internet, the MBL, often described as the "Brazilian Tea Party", cites its five goals, "free and independent press, economic freedom, separation of powers, free and reputable...

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