As the world watches
the 2014 FIFA World Cup over one million people are protesting the cost and the
human rights violations being committed by police and security forces to
protect this corporate investment.
Working people in Brazil are
understandably frustrated with the public cost of the World Cup, an estimated
$14 billion. When compared to spending on social services, the cost of the
World Cup is the equivalent of 61% of funding for education, or 30% of the
funding for healthcare. Private companies, including those in the services and
construction industries, will be the main beneficiaries of this public money.
Adding to this cost is the forced evictions of the poor living in the favelas
(slums) and the dispossession of indigenous people from their lands to build
stadiums and parking lots.
