Artist Blindfolds Statues in Brazil

Artist Blindfolds Statues in Brazil
A Brazilian artist is staging a silent, peaceful protest by placing red blindfolds on prominent statues all over Rio de Janeiro. The artist, who prefers to remain anonymous, is trying to bring attention to a corruption scandal that connects former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to a bribery scheme with a state-owned oil company. Anti-government protests have broken out across Brazil with protesters calling for Lula’s successor, President Dilma Rousseff, to resign. Protesters feel that Rousseff’s election win in 2014 was financed by dirty money from the scandal. The artist claims that the silent protest contrasts those who are unable to bring change to Brazil with those who can. The hiding of the eyes suggests that historic Brazilian figures would be ashamed of the present-day corruption.

1. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is the former president of Brazil who is now the subject of a corruption scandal.
2. The artist blindfolded prominent statues all over Rio de Janeiro as a silent protest.
3. The protest symbolizes the fact that living people have the power to bring about change just as others have done in the past. It also suggests historic figures would be ashamed of the corruption.