Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff proposed a referendum on political reform in an attempt to defuse unprecedented social unrest in Brazil that sparked two weeks of protests around the South American country. Rousseff also offered $25 billion for public transportation in response to protesters' exasperation with substandard public service sand inadequate mass-transit systems in the world's seventh-biggest economy. Rousseff suggested a referendum on the establishment of a constituent assembly tasked with crafting political reform. The other four pacts include guaranteeing economic stability and curbing inflation, investing 100 percent of the country's oil royalties in education, bringing in foreign doctors to provide medical treatment in remote and under-developed areas, and investing more than $25 billion in urban transit.
