Moustaches against Sarney

By Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro.
July 24, 2009

This week was the week of the moustache protest. Following another avalanche of allegations against Jose Sarney, the president of Brazil's senate, a group of Sao Paulo marketeers came up with the idea of a blog where irritated voters could post pics of themselves with Sarney-esque moustaches. The bloggers said they would only shave their moustaches off when Sarney got the boot.

On Thursday the 'Moustache Strike' crossed the Atlantic, with a story in the Guardian.
The story in the Guardian then made headlines in Brazil, which subsequently made they way onto the 'Moustache Strike' website in the form of this photo of one of the protest's creators holding the relevant page of the Estado de Sao Paulo. Page five actually (Was there nothing more news worthy?)

Meawhile, with Sarney showing no sign of making an exit, the moustaches grow longer and longer.

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