Hate to say, but Latin America just thinks about soccer and dramatic soap operas, especially Spanish soap operas,with a bunch of women, heavily made-up crying and yelling at each other. Latin America has the greatest natural resources, but its people and governments are overwhelmingly corrupt. Take care
It's so true that's why a great portion Of Latin Americans immigrate to The U.S or other super powers also you should accept that the politicians are corrupt .
I am sure you know that the Spaniards as well as the Portuguese exploited South America by stealing its gold and turning the Indians into slaves. Brazil, for example, is a very rich country, but badly corrupt.Brazilians are extremely friendly and warm. America, on the other hand, had the Pilgrims who left England on Mayflower, seeking religious freedom and the like. America is not a paradise on earth, don't get me wrong, but its constitution is highly respected.
Brazil a beautiful and large country that's being destroyed by the corrupt government. Million people dying in the line of hospitals, poor public education and transportation system. Stadiums made with public money. This World Cup will put Brazil to shame at a worldwide level, and all the world will know what I am talking about, soon. Brazilian people dont need world cup that has costed up till now an amount of 30 billion. They need more respect and dignity.
Many of these people built their homes without any permits, which was something very common years ago. It is very sad that these people have no place to call home, but I think the government should provide homes for the families. Unfortunately, there is a very negative view of Brazil abroad.
Okay, I am sorry If i had offend you/anyone. I am not from your country, Brazil. I just hope that these Rio 2014 & 2016 will go on smoothly & be the pride of the nation as the 1st Latin America country to host Olympic. May God The people of Rio. All the best . Cheers !!!
Watched the video? Liked it? Want to help Brazilians in their struggle for justice and respect? For free and in the comfort of your house? Then, Don't come to 2014 World Cup, and neither in the 2016 Olympic Games. Don't give money to this foul government. In the name of all Brazilians who share this thoughts, I thank you for your support.
I agree with you i live in Rio and Rio is becoming a much more better city than before starting by transportation and favelas pacifications and all kind of investiment. You are very right.
Too many problems with World Cup in less developed countries. NOT just Brazil but 4,000 labors died in Qatar 2022 stadium build. events comes before life?? events comes before people?? This isn't graceful events anymore!!! however football itself is beautiful game and we should support all the way!!!
To a point that's what the country is, beautiful and and horrific. I don't think there's ever a country in the world like this. It's the legacy of Portuguese rule. Centuries after, nothing has changed.
I've just started watching the video and I noticed exactly what you mentioned. The couple at 2:00 was complaining they weren't payed a fair amount because the property was worth more. But I'm pretty sure they never bought the land. They simply invaded it. I feel sorry for their situation, but they shouldn't be there in the first place. I'm Brazilian too, btw.
I think if anyone build a slum inside central park no one would be against removing the illegal construction and moving the residents to another place...
I am Brazilian and British citizen, this video show only the sad part of the problem making people be sorry for the favela people. The video did not show that these people no want to move to another house because in the favela they dont pay tax, dont pay electricity, internet and so on. That why they do not want to move from there. The houses of course should be destroyed to make better roads, the houses build in this area was not paid, they just go and build houses without pay the owner land.
Happens in nearly any city that hosts the Olympics or any other major event/structure. The slums are declared prime real estate, the poor are discarded, and the area is gentrified. It is a human condition of greed and moral depravity, and it happens every day all over the planet. Very sad.
The ending scene was not about the favelas case. It was about indians and the middle class fighting against the police to stop the demolition of historical buildings. In the scene, the fighting happened in march 2013, i think, and the plan of the city mayor was to demolish a historical building to make more parking space... right beside the Maracanã stadium. :-/
Its so easy to look down upon those who have less. Its easy to compare seating on a house in the US or europe or a privileged part of ANY country. Please reconsider your statements. Its already hard for them to go SOMEWHERE in life, now they are getting their houses torn apart for soccer and gymnastics ?
That is not the case for all of them. If they "invaded," how did the guy recieve a lease for 99 years? The government can't just breach a contract especially without just compensation. If it was so easy, why pressure residents to avoid lawyers? Why lie to them and say that if they so no, they receive even less compensation? This is nothing new, the poor gets poorer and the rich gets richer. Where are these poor people supposed to go?
THEY WILL ROTT IN HELL FOR THIS my thoughts are with the brazilian People i wish the best to you greeting from Germany, im ashamed that we have such a quiet life here :(
I agree. It is a human rights violation, and it's not just about that event, it speaks to a much larger issue. They just use the hosting of the event as a reason to pursue the agenda of criminalizing/de-humanizing the poor. The same thing happened in my city to a lesser extent when Jerry Jones decided he wanted a new Cowboys stadium (i.e. The Deathstar).
the slums/favelas of brazil are 80% in rio de janeiro and sao paulo ! for those of you who dont know about other important cities of brazil, go to google !
They had move to relocate in the different area rebuild their favelas in Rio de Janeiro and getting the live back together to move another location for living in the slums.They has to have money to redone the favelas and now having running water and electricity and the residents had a new home and especially having big families living in the favelas and the holidays are coming for all of needs of food drive and the gifts for a whole family. The residents living in the favelas of all of the donations of holiday food drives in most of the Catholic Churches with the priests on Sunday masses. The people are happy about the favelas.
Olympic Sport and Football World Cup, also brings disgrace to the modernization of the spaces, the power of money destroys poor families in this case, this does not happen in affluent families.
Dead wrong. They are building stadiums in cities like Manaus and Brasília, which have no soccer tradition whatsoever. Also, stadiums like Maracanã for instance, were not refurbished. They were TORN DOWN and then rebuilt
if they have a shity sports system were no one goes to then yes, here all stadiums are in good use and we have some of the biggest stadiums in the world
example,my father grew up in the slums of 8 to 18 years before living in rural then went to live in the big city, asks if he wants to return to live there, he will say no.Want to turn slums into neighborhoods and not continue this favela is something communists love.Many countries do not want desevolvimento BRICS shown by the media does not match realidade, because who is Brazili.have legitimacy to say does not match the reality shown video, there were huge advances,but there are still problems
If the guy has a property document Gov will not be able to destroy his house. It's in brazilian constitution. All that houses who is being destroyed are all illegal.
I'm from Rio, please don't be hypocritical, in Rio is much more common. Of course there are problem everywhere but comparing RIO with NYC insinuating that is the same thing is pathetic. NYC is a great city that also have problems, but much less than Rio. The first thing to solve a problem is recognize them instead of denying it like most of fucking Brazilians do.
instead of destroying the vibrant atmosphere the favela's bring to the city, why not spend the funds improving lives for the people already there? he mentioned not having utilities and infrastructure... but if they just thought out of the box a little bit they could achieve something, instead of trying to do it from a clean slate.
Imagine if you pay your bills and you discover that your neighbor use the services that you are paying how would you feel??? Man... you have no idea how is the real situation from here... and i hope government keep the process of pacification of the favelas and bring legality for that places and unfortunately some places will need to be removed...but in the end it will benefit the city and the biggest part of the population.
I don't look down on these people. I'm saying if they took care of their houses maybe they'd be able to keep them. Only reason they're being destroyed is because it looks like shit. I've been to Rio many times and if the favelas were painted I actually think they'd look great. It has great charm. The highway from the airport to downtown Rio needs to be upgraded. It looks like a fucking dump on both sides. I can understand they don't want that to be the first thing tourists see when they come.
Most of these houses shown in the video is far from stadium,most are only reforming stadium and people taken from homes in land seizures and receive rent assistance beyond "bolsa familia"a monthly income for poor families donated by the government, not to mention that after ready made houses by the prefecture,they're going to get brand new house and will pay a benefit for 21 years less than $50 no annual adjustment after receiving this deed to the house and still pay less electricity social
Not every city has slums of Brazil, foreigners only remember the rio because it is more known people around the world and hollywood. for example in the south of the country in the city Florianópolis only elite lives there is beverly hills Brazilian in the center west of Brazil in the city campo grande no favela, Brazil slum regions are different style, is what differentiates favela,ghetto,suburb.U.S. media manipulated until wikileaks reveal came years ago in a letter ambassador U.s in Brazil
You can't discuss.. i live in Rio and i know what i'm talking about... they put themselves as victims but they are not.. its not about be poor or rich.. its about don't pay bills... if they become legal and live in legal places they will have to pay for services like light..gas...water ...etc and they dont want to lose this "lux" of living stealing who pays for them to use..
why not build a city just for such games FIFA and Olympics which can be connected to Rio but no new construction in Rio all the Arenas and Gyms in the new olympic city...would be better than having to demolish homes of people who have been living for generations
not in Brazil? You are comparing Brazil with other countries. Brazilian love football and all these stadiums already existe in Brazil they are just refurbishing the stadiums.
Let me say you something. We have a terrible culture where we simply close our eyes and deny that Rio has serious troubles. We are used to attack people who criticize Rio or what ever. There many people around the world that avoid to say bad things about Rio in order to not be criticized, not because they are sympathetic like you said. If you were trying to be sympathetic, I'm sorry. But I have to say that I really hate closing my eyes at problems that is clearly serious in our case. Best regard
Saying the truth is arrogancy now??? Well you don't live here so you don't know what i'm talking about. If you lived here you would know exactly what i'm talking about and for sure you would change your mind.
but they have never paid for their land? what right do they actually think they have? beyond human rights of course, those who own the lease of land tho should remain there tho
+geppegep they live on the dam land why should it matter how much they pay there, why is it only NOw they are concerned about payment over land theyve claimed themselves and built on themselves. I say if you built it then its yours.
Unfortunately sometimes for the good things happen for the big part of the population.. you need to sacrifice a little part of the population. And it happens in all over the world not just in Brazil.. so stop being hypocrite.
Looks like Rio's mayor is very unresponsible person. He said: Let them scream, we will just continue looking around the house. WTF, A mayor Dares to ignore public outcry & dissatisfaction in front of media. SHAME ON HIM. Overall, the development process looks like just in China....where government have the right to demolished whatever they want. DISAPPOINTED WITH THIS LATIN COUNTRY :(
I am not blessed to be a footballer participating a world cup, but if I was I would not go to Brazil nor indeed the next one in Qatar. In the case of the latter, they bought the rights to the world cup, despite the climate being unfavourable to sports. Furthermore, slavery is being employed to prepare for the competition. In the case of the former, Brazil, another nation that made its name enslaving millions of its own people, the same downtrodden people are just being thrown away like the garbage they were considered to be in Brazil's slave past to accommodate glittering new stadia. And guess what? 2 years later in 2016, this land of inequality and discrimination will hold the Olympic Games! Why do nations like these get these elite competitions?
DON'T BE an idiot... they are NOT BUILDING NEW STADIUMS... they are RENOVATING and make the old ones suitable for the BEST WORLD CUP in the best soccer national team in the world. BRAZIL!
Don't make drama! If you don't know what is really happenning...please shut up. They were not in regular places .. they invaded there and built their houses there without any regulation so they deserved. And they received money...maybe it would never happen in another country because as i said they were not regular. So they were illegal.
...so you wish you are as poor or needy as them so that you dont have to pay for anything for your house. If they could afford to pay the bills, i am sure there will pay the bills....but the facts is they are couldnt even afford that. PLEASE UNDERSTAND THEIR SITUATIONS. Government should demolished their houses even though they are illegal residents. Have some Mercy & compassion for them.
Rio has way gone beyond...! seriously looks like a nice colour ful country but me tinks a lot of gas would make a different s in the slums and on the torrest trade..
this video shows only the sad part of the problem causing people to repent for the people of the slum.the video does not show that these people d not want to move to another house in the slums because they do not pay taxes, do not pay electricity,internet and so on.That's because they do not want to move there.build the houses in this area was not paid,they just go and build houses without paying the landowner invaded.I bet this story is biased case was the same Olympiad china the American media
"This can only happen bcus the Olympics creates a deadline". Not sure if this Olympic investment will pay off in the long run. 4 yrs. after the games,what then new elected officials and dis placed citizen's.
I don't appreciate that attitude. Favela's aren't any different from the ghetto's of most cities in the world, especially where I'm where I'm originally from. At the end of the day, they are poor and you are making them out to be bad people. If the government wants to move them, at least give them enough to get a proper home. Homeless people don't just disappear you know.
So you believe that the country's "image" outweighs individual rights? How does a country look better with teams of homeless people and mass protests out in the streets? Was Maria Estelle a drug dealer? What about Antonio and Annusia?
Most of them are receiving houses for free.... so please shut up! And you want to know why they are so upset ? Because there in the favelas they didnt pay for light, water or any other service and becoming "legal" they will have to. So please...stop making them as victims.
It's a shame that a country so rich, can be so poor and full of contrasts. This is what makes me embarrassed of being Brazilian.
I Think this is happening in all América Latina the politicians are corrupt !
Hate to say, but Latin America just thinks about soccer and dramatic soap operas, especially Spanish soap operas,with a bunch of women, heavily made-up crying and yelling at each other. Latin America has the greatest natural resources, but its people and governments are overwhelmingly corrupt. Take care
It's so true that's why a great portion Of Latin Americans immigrate to The U.S or other super powers also you should accept that the politicians are corrupt .
I am sure you know that the Spaniards as well as the Portuguese exploited South America by stealing its gold and turning the Indians into slaves. Brazil, for example, is a very rich country, but badly corrupt.Brazilians are extremely friendly and warm.
America, on the other hand, had the Pilgrims who left England on Mayflower, seeking religious freedom and the like. America is not a paradise on earth, don't get me wrong, but its constitution is highly respected.
Por isso que o Brasil tem tantos contrates, porque há brasileiros como você.
Brazil a beautiful and large country that's being destroyed by the corrupt government. Million people dying in the line of hospitals, poor public education and transportation system. Stadiums made with public money. This World Cup will put Brazil to shame at a worldwide level, and all the world will know what I am talking about, soon. Brazilian people dont need world cup that has costed up till now an amount of 30 billion. They need more respect and dignity.
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Many of these people built their homes without any permits, which was something very common years ago. It is very sad that these people have no place to call home, but I think the government should provide homes for the families. Unfortunately, there is a very negative view of Brazil abroad.
Okay, I am sorry If i had offend you/anyone.
I am not from your country, Brazil.
I just hope that these Rio 2014 & 2016 will go on smoothly & be the pride of the nation as the 1st Latin America country to host Olympic. May God The people of Rio. All the best .
Cheers !!!
Watched the video?
Liked it?
Want to help Brazilians in their struggle for justice and respect? For free and in the comfort of your house?
Then, Don't come to 2014 World Cup, and neither in the 2016 Olympic Games. Don't give money to this foul government.
In the name of all Brazilians who share this thoughts, I thank you for your support.
FIFA = MAFFIA
I totally agree with you. And I am Brazilian.
I agree with you i live in Rio and Rio is becoming a much more better city than before starting by transportation and favelas pacifications and all kind of investiment. You are very right.
Too many problems with World Cup in less developed countries. NOT just Brazil but 4,000 labors died in Qatar 2022 stadium build. events comes before life?? events comes before people?? This isn't graceful events anymore!!! however football itself is beautiful game and we should support all the way!!!
To a point that's what the country is, beautiful and and horrific. I don't think there's ever a country in the world like this. It's the legacy of Portuguese rule. Centuries after, nothing has changed.
In London for the 2012 games and in China for the 2008 Olympic Games people also was relocated.
I've just started watching the video and I noticed exactly what you mentioned. The couple at 2:00 was complaining they weren't payed a fair amount because the property was worth more. But I'm pretty sure they never bought the land. They simply invaded it. I feel sorry for their situation, but they shouldn't be there in the first place. I'm Brazilian too, btw.
what makes this worse is that stadiums built remain unused after the olympics are over..
I think if anyone build a slum inside central park no one would be against removing the illegal construction and moving the residents to another place...
I am Brazilian and British citizen, this video show only the sad part of the problem making people be sorry for the favela people. The video did not show that these people no want to move to another house because in the favela they dont pay tax, dont pay electricity, internet and so on. That why they do not want to move from there. The houses of course should be destroyed to make better roads, the houses build in this area was not paid, they just go and build houses without pay the owner land.
Happens in nearly any city that hosts the Olympics or any other major event/structure. The slums are declared prime real estate, the poor are discarded, and the area is gentrified. It is a human condition of greed and moral depravity, and it happens every day all over the planet. Very sad.
I live in Rio de Janeiro and i know very well who lives there. If you think i'm a troll you have no idea who really lives there. But i do.
The ending scene was not about the favelas case. It was about indians and the middle class fighting against the police to stop the demolition of historical buildings. In the scene, the fighting happened in march 2013, i think, and the plan of the city mayor was to demolish a historical building to make more parking space... right beside the Maracanã stadium. :-/
it is right to rebel in the face of oppression. Fight back. revolt rebel live free
It's sad - É triste - Es ist traurig...
I agree.
Thanks to accept and understanding zorkoff1. Best regards.
A man's home is his castle, no matter how humble it is. I say we start a very BIG and very LOUD boycott of Brazil over this inhumane crap!
Its so easy to look down upon those who have less. Its easy to compare seating on a house in the US or europe or a privileged part of ANY country. Please reconsider your statements. Its already hard for them to go SOMEWHERE in life, now they are getting their houses torn apart for soccer and gymnastics ?
That is not the case for all of them. If they "invaded," how did the guy recieve a lease for 99 years? The government can't just breach a contract especially without just compensation. If it was so easy, why pressure residents to avoid lawyers? Why lie to them and say that if they so no, they receive even less compensation? This is nothing new, the poor gets poorer and the rich gets richer. Where are these poor people supposed to go?
THEY WILL ROTT IN HELL FOR THIS
my thoughts are with the brazilian People i wish the best to you
greeting from Germany, im ashamed that we have such a quiet life here :(
I agree. It is a human rights violation, and it's not just about that event, it speaks to a much larger issue. They just use the hosting of the event as a reason to pursue the agenda of criminalizing/de-humanizing the poor. The same thing happened in my city to a lesser extent when Jerry Jones decided he wanted a new Cowboys stadium (i.e. The Deathstar).
This is just sad. I'm glad we didn't get the Olympics here in Chicago.
the slums/favelas of brazil are 80% in rio de janeiro and sao paulo ! for those of you who dont know about other important cities of brazil, go to google !
They had move to relocate in the different area rebuild their favelas in Rio de Janeiro and getting the live back together to move another location for living in the slums.They has to have money to redone the favelas and now having running water and electricity and the residents had a new home and especially having big families living in the favelas and the holidays are coming for all of needs of food drive and the gifts for a whole family. The residents living in the favelas of all of the donations of holiday food drives in most of the Catholic Churches with the priests on Sunday masses. The people are happy about the favelas.
Olympic Sport and Football World Cup, also brings disgrace to the modernization of the spaces, the power of money destroys poor families in this case, this does not happen in affluent families.
Congrats FIFA, and Olympics, well done, well done.
Dead wrong. They are building stadiums in cities like Manaus and Brasília, which have no soccer tradition whatsoever. Also, stadiums like Maracanã for instance, were not refurbished. They were TORN DOWN and then rebuilt
if they have a shity sports system were no one goes to then yes, here all stadiums are in good use and we have some of the biggest stadiums in the world
How do you know this? Not trying to be a troll just curious.
we need a plan of habitation in this city ungertly !
Why should the government pay them? It's not like they paid for the property they are living on in the first place.
If Antonio's wife wants to live in a house worth more than $17,000 in California, I'll take her away from all that.
this is where soccer games belong
example,my father grew up in the slums of 8 to 18 years before living in rural then went to live in the big city, asks if he wants to return to live there, he will say no.Want to turn slums into neighborhoods and not continue this favela is something communists love.Many countries do not want desevolvimento BRICS shown by the media does not match realidade, because who is Brazili.have legitimacy to say does not match the reality shown video, there were huge advances,but there are still problems
If the guy has a property document Gov will not be able to destroy his house. It's in brazilian constitution. All that houses who is being destroyed are all illegal.
That's messed up they can't just destroy homes like that I mean really
Its not "their" properties. They can't call it "their" because they invaded and built their houses there.
I hope if the government wherever you are takes your property, you get just compensation and not merely a third of the value!
Unfortunately Rio de Janerio has no choice, the Olympics picked them, and they have no saying in it.
As i said they don't to leave that places because they don't pay for the services they are using now.
I'm from Rio, please don't be hypocritical, in Rio is much more common. Of course there are problem everywhere but comparing RIO with NYC insinuating that is the same thing is pathetic. NYC is a great city that also have problems, but much less than Rio. The first thing to solve a problem is recognize them instead of denying it like most of fucking Brazilians do.
instead of destroying the vibrant atmosphere the favela's bring to the city, why not spend the funds improving lives for the people already there? he mentioned not having utilities and infrastructure... but if they just thought out of the box a little bit they could achieve something, instead of trying to do it from a clean slate.
maybe the world needs one Olympic city?
Imagine if you pay your bills and you discover that your neighbor use the services that you are paying how would you feel??? Man... you have no idea how is the real situation from here... and i hope government keep the process of pacification of the favelas and bring legality for that places and unfortunately some places will need to be removed...but in the end it will benefit the city and the biggest part of the population.
I don't look down on these people. I'm saying if they took care of their houses maybe they'd be able to keep them. Only reason they're being destroyed is because it looks like shit. I've been to Rio many times and if the favelas were painted I actually think they'd look great. It has great charm. The highway from the airport to downtown Rio needs to be upgraded. It looks like a fucking dump on both sides. I can understand they don't want that to be the first thing tourists see when they come.
i have been to rio and i recomend it.travel there
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Most of these houses shown in the video is far from stadium,most are only reforming stadium and people taken from homes in land seizures and receive rent assistance beyond "bolsa familia"a monthly income for poor families donated by the government, not to mention that after ready made houses by the prefecture,they're going to get brand new house and will pay a benefit for 21 years less than $50 no annual adjustment after receiving this deed to the house and still pay less electricity social
They are negativating your msgs because they have no idea how is here. I live here since i borned and i know what is best for my city and what is not.
Not every city has slums of Brazil, foreigners only remember the rio because it is more known people around the world and hollywood. for example in the south of the country in the city Florianópolis only elite lives there is beverly hills Brazilian in the center west of Brazil in the city campo grande no favela, Brazil slum regions are different style, is what differentiates favela,ghetto,suburb.U.S. media manipulated until wikileaks reveal came years ago in a letter ambassador U.s in Brazil
So glad that's not me but that's messed up to say shame on the government
yeah...the reality, this is sad (p.s: i'm from rio)
You can't discuss.. i live in Rio and i know what i'm talking about... they put themselves as victims but they are not.. its not about be poor or rich.. its about don't pay bills... if they become legal and live in legal places they will have to pay for services like light..gas...water ...etc and they dont want to lose this "lux" of living stealing who pays for them to use..
Thank you for this, I won't be supporting the Olympics in any way, shape, or form
How?
why not build a city just for such games FIFA and Olympics which can be connected to Rio but no new construction in Rio all the Arenas and Gyms in the new olympic city...would be better than having to demolish homes of people who have been living for generations
There is no American media in this video.
So sad now I kinda understand why people don't like capitalizim
How on earth is that relevant? I truly am puzzled!
not in Brazil? You are comparing Brazil with other countries. Brazilian love football and all these stadiums already existe in Brazil they are just refurbishing the stadiums.
Let me say you something. We have a terrible culture where we simply close our eyes and deny that Rio has serious troubles. We are used to attack people who criticize Rio or what ever. There many people around the world that avoid to say bad things about Rio in order to not be criticized, not because they are sympathetic like you said. If you were trying to be sympathetic, I'm sorry. But I have to say that I really hate closing my eyes at problems that is clearly serious in our case. Best regard
I wonder if this is going to be in the Rio 2 movie.
Damn........
Saying the truth is arrogancy now??? Well you don't live here so you don't know what i'm talking about. If you lived here you would know exactly what i'm talking about and for sure you would change your mind.
but they have never paid for their land? what right do they actually think they have? beyond human rights of course, those who own the lease of land tho should remain there tho
+geppegep they live on the dam land why should it matter how much they pay there, why is it only NOw they are concerned about payment over land theyve claimed themselves and built on themselves. I say if you built it then its yours.
Good statement. Just try to replace are by is, I think is the same as saying tu é in Portuguese.
Unfortunately sometimes for the good things happen for the big part of the population.. you need to sacrifice a little part of the population. And it happens in all over the world not just in Brazil.. so stop being hypocrite.
Looks like Rio's mayor is very unresponsible person.
He said: Let them scream, we will just continue looking around the house.
WTF, A mayor Dares to ignore public outcry & dissatisfaction in front of media. SHAME ON HIM.
Overall, the development process looks like just in China....where government have the right to demolished whatever they want.
DISAPPOINTED WITH THIS LATIN COUNTRY :(
I,m shocked
Omg
It might be a nice place to visit, but I doubt I would like to live there...
Ana Lucia, hit me up. I'll send you a plane ticket, mami
I am not blessed to be a footballer participating a world cup, but if I was I would not go to Brazil nor indeed the next one in Qatar. In the case of the latter, they bought the rights to the world cup, despite the climate being unfavourable to sports. Furthermore, slavery is being employed to prepare for the competition. In the case of the former, Brazil, another nation that made its name enslaving millions of its own people, the same downtrodden people are just being thrown away like the garbage they were considered to be in Brazil's slave past to accommodate glittering new stadia. And guess what? 2 years later in 2016, this land of inequality and discrimination will hold the Olympic Games! Why do nations like these get these elite competitions?
DON'T BE an idiot... they are NOT BUILDING NEW STADIUMS... they are RENOVATING and make the old ones suitable for the BEST WORLD CUP in the best soccer national team in the world. BRAZIL!
Don't make drama! If you don't know what is really happenning...please shut up. They were not in regular places .. they invaded there and built their houses there without any regulation so they deserved. And they received money...maybe it would never happen in another country because as i said they were not regular. So they were illegal.
Maybe if your house didn't look like such a fucking dump they'd actually let you keep it.
This is just horrible. Its all just for the olympics and they never think once about their people!
don't want to*
...so you wish you are as poor or needy as them so that you dont have to pay for anything for your house.
If they could afford to pay the bills, i am sure there will pay the bills....but the facts is they are couldnt even afford that. PLEASE UNDERSTAND THEIR SITUATIONS.
Government should demolished their houses even though they are illegal residents. Have some Mercy & compassion for them.
But they are giving houses and money... what are you talking about??
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DO NOT GO TO THE WORLD CUP. STAY OUT!
They did the same thing in China.
Rio has way gone beyond...! seriously looks like a nice colour ful country but me tinks a lot of gas would make a different s in the slums and on the torrest trade..
this video shows only the sad part of the problem causing people to repent for the people of the slum.the video does not show that these people d not want to move to another house in the slums because they do not pay taxes, do not pay electricity,internet and so on.That's because they do not want to move there.build the houses in this area was not paid,they just go and build houses without paying the landowner invaded.I bet this story is biased case was the same Olympiad china the American media
"This can only happen bcus the Olympics creates a deadline". Not sure if this Olympic investment will pay off in the long run. 4 yrs. after the games,what then new elected officials and dis placed citizen's.
I don't appreciate that attitude. Favela's aren't any different from the ghetto's of most cities in the world, especially where I'm where I'm originally from. At the end of the day, they are poor and you are making them out to be bad people. If the government wants to move them, at least give them enough to get a proper home. Homeless people don't just disappear you know.
So you believe that the country's "image" outweighs individual rights? How does a country look better with teams of homeless people and mass protests out in the streets? Was Maria Estelle a drug dealer? What about Antonio and Annusia?
Isso aí devia de ser no mínimo 1000 andares por que o proletariado é muito grande !
don`t believe on the sensasionalism of this film, I think not the all story in been told.
Most of them are receiving houses for free.... so please shut up! And you want to know why they are so upset ? Because there in the favelas they didnt pay for light, water or any other service and becoming "legal" they will have to. So please...stop making them as victims.
Hahaha, you can't reshape that crap. It's like any other Latin American spot. One side of the hill is poor and the other side is rich
its sad but it needs to be done, those slums give very bad image for the country and breeds a lot of drug dealers and thugs
Sorry, I didn't know you were an expert on Chinese politics. Were you educated at an ivy league institution? Or a prestigious Chinese university?