Police Expect 100,000 to Protest Brazil Soccer Game Tomorrow

Authorities in Brazil’s third-largest metropolitan area, Belo Horizonte, expect 100,000 people to protest as the country’s national soccer team plays Uruguay tomorrow, reviving the largest street uprising in two decades.

The city will deploy 5,000 security personnel, including almost 2,000 to supervise the game, said Major Gilmar Luciano, head of the press office for the military police in Minas Gerais state, of which Belo Horizonte is the capital. The precautions, which include 10 aircraft, come after President Dilma Rousseff pledged to hold a plebiscite to make Brazil’s institutions more representative and less corrupt.