Browsing Archive: February, 2012

Protest or Carnival?

Posted by Marianne Hoesen on Tuesday, February 21, 2012, In : Carnival

Is it a celebration of Carnival or is it a protest against the governments austerity measures? Probably a bit of both. Not only in Lissabon, but even in the sleepy village of São Marcos da Serra, people are getting fed up and angry with the government´s measures to master the crisis. Today, there were demonstrations of protest near the Football Club, at the church and next to the village donkey. Here the pictures that speak for themselves.

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