Metal wall symbolic divide in Brazil impeachment showdown

[WorldNews]

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Brasília (AFP) - Tens of thousands of rival protesters massed Sunday outside Brazil's Congress for a vote on President Dilma Rousseff's political future like fans at a tense football final, waving flags, sporting opposing colors and separated by a wall. Workers installed four large television screens on each side of the metal barrier for the crowds to follow the action -- and keep score -- as the lower house voted on whether to send an impeachment measure to the Senate. Protests were held in other cities, with thousands marching in rival rallies in Sao Paulo, where a large screen was installed to watch the vote, and thousands more along Rio de Janeiro's famed Copacabana beach.

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