"IT'S not about the 50 cents" reads a scrawl on a shop shutter on Avenida Faria Lima, one of Sao Paulo's main thoroughfares. Next door, the message is blunter: "Screw the police". Six months after a small demonstration against a 50-cent rise in bus fares blew up into the biggest street protests Brazil had seen in a generation, few visible signs remain of the wider anger they revealed-about corruption, poor public services and rising living costs. Recent attempts to organise a reprise have attracted only a few hundred marchers. Support for the president, Dilma Rousseff of the Workers' Party, which plummeted after June's protests, has rebounded. A poll in November of voting intentions in next October's elections gave her 47%, against 30% for her two likeliest adversaries combined.
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