Brazil, May 2014, ---- Greetings foreign people, sorry to interrupt your party, but given
the circumstances we need to understand the real context of the football World Cup that
came to watch. We just want to bring you information that the Brazilian government and his
tour company, most likely not told them. ---- The World Cup brought to our country by FIFA
had an expense until the time when this letter was written from 25.6 billion reais, which
would come to 11.5 billion dollars. Of this amount, over 83% came from public coffers, tax
money from the people themselves. The minimum wage in Brazil is 724 reais per month ($
325), tickets for the games can get to almost a thousand dollars, the Brazilian worker
pays for an event that he could not attend. According to a survey recently, 75.8% of
Brazilian people have shown contrary to investments made for this World Cup.
Our country still has 3.7 million children and teenagers out of school and an index of
Quse 10% illiteracy according to UNESCO. How to defic?ncia education was not already
enough, the government established school holidays during the World Cup. We live in a
country where more than 242 thousand families have no electricity, not to mention the
public health is still far from acceptable, while the soccer idol Ronaldinho "phenomenon",
pronounced in public saying "With hospitals not it is the World Cup. "
Today we live an extremely difficult economic environment we have one of the highest tax
in the world, yet nearly 50% of our GDP is being used to pay an absurd public debt, while
the people starve, or almost half of the we produce in wealth are going straight into the
pockets of a few bankers, moreover, also lost a lot of corruption and mismanagement of
public money.
Excessive spending on the World Cup are just the top of this iceberg, on behalf of that
Cup, many civil rights were violated, a fact which is not unusual in a country where we
have a highly militarized police have even been criticized by international institutions
such as Amnesty International and the UN itself, which has even made a recommendation to
end PM (Brazilian military police). Communities near the stadiums will have an ostensive
policing and truculent, including the presence of the army, not to ensure the safety of
the people, but to ensure the safety of you tourists, as is already the case in Complexo
da Mar?, which is already occupied by own army, navy and PM, all adding up to more than
2500 men. The right to housing also not left out of the crosshairs of the government and
FIFA, thousands of families have already been displaced due to the event, including
indigenous families Maracana Village, which despite resistance, were violently displaced.
Unsurprisingly for us too, in the "democratic" regime we live in, watch these military
interference, as the army and national force occupying the construction site of a
hydroelectric plant in the heart of Amazonia (Belo Monte) to prevent native peoples and
local communities affected by the dam protest. Furthermore everything to build the
stadiums in time for the World Cup, more than a dozen workers died in construction sites.
Besides all these problems child prostitution in the country is still a reality that
affects about 500,000 children under the age of According to the National Forum for the
Prevention and Eradication of Child Labor. This scenario is potentially exacerbated by
holding the Cup.
Many of us are outraged and taking to the streets in protest, but the government and
supported by the media, trying to drown it all put here, has criminalized the
demonstrations and repressing them hard with his military apparatus with various
complaints of rights violations human, as pointed out by NGOs and international organizations.
The State and its supporters do not meet administrators and never meet popular demands, if
need healthcare, education, housing, jobs will have to conquer them through our unity and
struggle.
Get this letter as a request for support, share this information with as many people as
possible, help us to show the world, a reality that the government, FIFA and sponsors of
the Cup at all costs try to hide
Initiative
Workers Bulletin - operario.boletim @ gmail.com - Workers Trade Union League
Camponesa-ligalibertaria@riseup.net - Fenikso Nigra - fenikso@riseup.net Barricade
Libertarian - lobo@riseup.net - Dance of Ideas - dancasdasideias.blogspot.com / Chaos in
Flow - caosemfluxo.wordpress.com / anarchists People. Anarkio.net
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