The final drop!

In English we say "the straw that broke the camel's back!" In Portuguese it's "a gota d'agua", or the final drop of water. An announced public transport fare increase from R$3 to R$3.20 may not have seemed particularly significant to those looking in from outside the country, but it was "the final drop of water" for the Brazilian public already indignant at a transport system that fails to cope with demand, the billions of public money spent on football stadiums for next year's World Cup in spite of poor public hospitals and schools, and the ever-continuing political corruption. From June 2013 onwards in major cities across the nation, demonstrations of the like not seen for 20 years led to the inevitable minority who left burning cars, buses etc. in their wake. After an initially defiant stance, the government were eventually forced to pour water on the flames, so to speak, by scraping the intended fare rise.