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1. Name: Ricardo Rios
Nicolás Contreras
Grade: 9°D
Date: 01/09

2. When Brazil was announced host of the football World Cup
2014, all expected a big party. A country where football is a
national passion, home of the ”jogo bonito”. But a few days
prior to kick off, the majority of the Brazilians are questioning
the mega-tournament.
They point out excessive spending on new stadiums while
funds are desperately needed to improve the public health
system and education. Not to speak of public transport.
The World Cup in Brazil mixes passion with social protest.

3. Hundreds of thousands of people paralyzed the cities across
the country over a 20 cent increase in bus fares. The police
response was brutal in the beginning. Elite military-police
units trained to pacify real slums were brought to quell
demonstrations. But the police violence drove more people
into the streets. For the first time anyone can recall the
people began to lose the fear of the police.

4. Although it might have seemed like a good idea to host the
2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil one of the most soccer-obsessed
countries in the world massive social unrest has
taken the country by storm in the lead up to the tournament.
The Brazilian government is spending an estimated $14 billion
on this year's tournament, making it the most expensive World
Cup to date. This has provoked outrage among Brazilians, who
view the government as corrupt. They are seeing vast amounts
of money being spent on soccer stadiums and police while
politicians ignore the country's endemic poverty and social
issues are ignored.

5. “Matches in the stadium
not worth the tears in the favelas”

6. Abortion legalization
Equal marriage
Marijuana legalization

7. “The world cup takes our schools and
hospitals and leaves us its ‘balls’.”

8. FIFA was a target for Brazilian
protestors against the World Cup.

10. “A picture is worth a thousand words”