Everybody is focused on Turkey and the riots there. However,
Brazil is burning too and it started with an
increase in bus fares:
"Political leaders here in Brazil’s largest city braced for
yet another round of demonstrations on Tuesday night by an increasingly powerful
movement that has grown from complaints about bus fares to a broad challenge to
political corruption, lavish stadium projects, the cost of living and
substandard public services. "
Add a little police brutality and you have a first class
protest.
Brazil will be hosting the next World Cup and Olympics. It
has been building new facilities and hotels to impress the visitors. There are
also significant delays and cost overruns!
These "riots" matter for several reasons:
1) There will be thousands of visitors in the country next
year. All of these protests could make crowd control very
complicated.
2) Brazil confirms that "all politics is local". It's great
to build impressive facilities but don't forget that people also need schools
and better transportation.
This is what one Brazilian told Sky
News:
""We're massacred by the government's taxes, yet when we leave
home in the morning to go to work, we don't know if we'll make it home alive
because of the violence.
"We don't have good schools for our kids. Our hospitals are in awful shape.
Corruption is rife. These protests will make history and wake our politicians up
to the fact that we're not taking it anymore."
Another person in the street said:
"We need better education, hospitals and security - not billions spent on the World Cup.""
So here we are. Soccer-crazy Brazilians are screaming that there are limits to their love for "futbol"! P.S. Click here for Wednesday's show
Another person in the street said:
"We need better education, hospitals and security - not billions spent on the World Cup.""
So here we are. Soccer-crazy Brazilians are screaming that there are limits to their love for "futbol"! P.S. Click here for Wednesday's show
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