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UNREST
Protests were not as large as they were during a Confederations Cup, a World Cup dress operation hosted in 2013, when some-more than a million Brazilians marched on a streets. A week into a tournament, about 200,000 people opposite a nation did fill a streets to criticism a cost of living, according toThe New York Times,and videos showed demonstration military regulating beast force to frustrate protesters. Reporters were harmed — one shot in a eye with a rubber bullet, others with gashes to a arms. Videographers operative for Vice News showed military spraying rip gas indiscriminately. “The military are underneath really transparent instructions to endure nothing,” writes educational Christopher Gaffney on his blog geostadia.com, “and to conflict with limit force.” After Brazil mislaid 7-1 to Germany on Tuesday, buses and Brazilian flags were set on fire. There was also a bolt in Rio, where dozens of youths attacked stores.
PROJECT READINESS
The stadiums themselves were not ready, and conjunction were railway projects. Two people were dejected when an overpass collapsed 5 kilometres from a Mineirao track in Belo Horizonte. Not usually did a contest cost a nation US$11-billion, though it also cost a lives of several construction workers before and during a World Cup.
SECURITY
Security was a regard for visitors, and during a stadiums it was a wily test. Several hundred ticketless Chilean fans stormed a Maracana while Chile was personification (read: beating) Spain. Around 100 done it in and knocked down a assign wall, done of plaster, separating a reporters from a fans. There were 40 other Argentines with annals of hooliganism who were deported flattering swiftly, as tens of thousands of people from Argentina came to Brazil to watch their group make a final. Others were arrested for throwing fireworks during fans. Brazil deployed clandestine cops and ramped adult confidence during a borders, and it worked.
THE LONG-TERM
And afterwards there are a white elephants. No one will know for certain what Brazil will demeanour like after a World Cup and a Olympics in 2016, though some of these new stadiums were built but a long-term plan. The internal group in Manaus plays in a fourth division, and it can't presumably fill a 42,000-seat Arena Amazonia. Some of South Africa’s World Cup stadiums still cost millions of dollars to say each year.
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