Brazil hit by more street protests A man shouts slogans during a protest outside the home of Sergio Cabral, the governor of Rio de Janeiro state, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, June 23, 2013. Rio De Janeiro: A new wave of street protests has swept Brazil amid mounting popular support for demands for wide-ranging institutional reform and investment in crumbling public services. Many are frustrated that, after years of under-investment in Brazil's sagging infrastructure, billions of dollars are being poured into ensuring next year's World Cup is a tourist extravaganza. Brazilians mostly still want the country to host the competition for the first time since 1950 - but not at the expense of living standards, something protesters say politicians do not care about. Some 2000 people marched along the promenade of Rio de Janeiro's world famous Copacabana beach. I don't think this is like Egypt or Libya or Tunisia - we are not at war with each other. But enough is enough," Anderson Luis Rosa, a 31-year-old teacher, told AFP. "I have my Guy Fawkes mask with me," he beamed, displaying one of the plastic masks that have come to symbolise youth protest worldwide since the Occupy Wall Street marches in the United States. "But no, we don't want to burn down parliament," he said, insisting that the marchers want peaceful but concrete reform, not to blow up parliament as the 17th century British rebel Fawkes had planned. Most protesters were not convinced by Friday's pledge from President Dilma Rousseff to improve shoddy public services and fight harder against rampant corruption - the main grudges of the street protesters. "Dilma is finished, we don't trust any politician," added Liliana Romeiro, a pensioner. A poll published Saturday by the Ibope polling agency showed three quarters of Brazilians back the protests, with 77 per cent citing the high cost of using public transport as the key reason for their dissatisfaction. But two-thirds were still in favour of hosting the World Cup, despite the huge bill to the country, estimated at $US15 billion ($A16.3 billion). Some protesters have slammed world football body FIFA, saying it has dictated the pace of World Cup investment. But the organisation's secretary-general Jerome Valcke insisted: "We are not telling the Brazilians what to do." Although most of the protests have been peaceful, there is a militant edge as hardliners grow impatient for change. Sao Paulo's "Free Transport" movement urged "large scale action" for the week ahead while numerous social media clamoured for a general strike, warning: "On July 1, 2013, Brazil will grind to a halt." But Sunday's protests were much more genteel affairs that that which saw sporadic violence as 300,000 people turned out in central Rio. The wave of protests began on June 11 when residents of Sao Paulo took to the streets to denounce an increase in public transport fares. Unrest spread quickly and the entire country has become engulfed in protest.