Crime, poor public services, corruption and food-scarcity have been targeted with loudly trumpeted initiatives.
Demonstrations about public services, corruption and World Cup waste continued, but were smaller than recent ones.
The $11 billion of publicly financed spending on stadiums helped to trigger huge protests last year over poor public services, corruption and the misplaced priorities of politicians.
Over two weeks they morphed into a nationwide outpouring of dismay at shoddy public services, corruption, the cost of living, ineffectual government and much else.
Rousseff's approval ratings had plummeted after a million Brazilians took to the streets to protest failing public services, corruption and World Cup spending in June 2013.
Hundreds of thousands of Brazilians have taken to the streets to express their anger at the cost of staging the tournament, along with high taxes and prices, poor public services, corruption and police brutality.
High water was reached on June 20th, when more than 1m people turned out to protest against poor public services, corruption, the cost of living, extravagant spending on the World Cup and much else.
Far from using oil revenues to benefit civilians by building and maintaining better public services, corruption and mismanagement plagued the project, leaving already-wealthy public officials as the biggest beneficiaries of a very expensive international development plan.
But it was also remarkably similar to the conciliatory language the president used last year to placate the million-plus protesters who took to the streets in a wave of demonstrations against poor public services, corruption and police brutality.
The largest protests yet – over poor public services, corruption and police brutality – took place despite the government backtracking on the six-pence increase in bus fares that originally sparked the unrest – begging the question of what, if anything, political leaders can do to quell the unrest.
