Huge Demonstrations in Brazil to Protest Billions Spent on the World Cup While the Poor Continues to Suffer
Yesterday, half a milion people went to protest at the streets of Brazilian main cities.
The transport system in Brazil is owned by private enterprises, and every year the ticket price increases above the inflation. The problem now is that, because of the world crises, the inflation is becoming higher than the people can stand. Moreover, the people are realizing that the benefits of holding the World Cup and the Olympic Games are not for all. The Brazilian biggest football stadium, Maracanã, has been renovated again, but this time it cost almost 6 hundred million for the state, and it is ready to be sold to a private company owned by Eike Batista, Brazilian richest man, whereas thousands of poor people have been removed from the center of the main cities without any safeguard.