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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBrazil forcibly displaced thousands of people to make way for the World Cup
Like millions of people around the world, I am enjoying watching the World Cup. Unfortunately, this otherwise great sports event has a terrible dark side: In order to construct the necessary facilities, the Brazilian government forcibly displaced thousands of people. This recent article by Brazilian-based architect Anthony Ling cites estimates indicating that some 250,000 people have been evicted from their homes:
Who would ever think that something as beautiful as a soccer championship could be destructive? The World Cup has become a social and public policy disaster for Brazil .
The attempt to produce a legacy does not only have a financial cost, but also an invaluable social cost, possibly the largest loss of all generated by the World Cup. Research done by NGOs such as ANCOP and Conectas estimates that around 250 thousand people will be evicted from their homes because of new public works related to the event.
Who would ever think that something as beautiful as a soccer championship could be destructive? The World Cup has become a social and public policy disaster for Brazil .
The attempt to produce a legacy does not only have a financial cost, but also an invaluable social cost, possibly the largest loss of all generated by the World Cup. Research done by NGOs such as ANCOP and Conectas estimates that around 250 thousand people will be evicted from their homes because of new public works related to the event.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/06/18/brazil-forcibly-displaced-thousands-of-people-to-make-way-for-the-world-cup/
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Brazil forcibly displaced thousands of people to make way for the World Cup (Original Post)
ZombieHorde
Jun 2014
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delrem
(9,688 posts)1. Unfortunately, it seems to've turned into yet another Capitalist horror show. nt.
SwankyXomb
(2,030 posts)2. Once the World Cup is over,
they can really crank it into high gear for the 2016 Olympics.
TDale313
(7,820 posts)3. Really, really sad to hear.
I've been one of those who has been really enjoying it this year. I think there is something fairly special about the international draw of this event/sport. But like the Olympics, the commercialism and sheer logistics often mean that the people who live in the places where these things get hosted often suffer. Very mixed feelings/bag.
kiva
(4,373 posts)4. Then this is for you,
wraps up my feelings about it perfectly...and yes, I'm still watching:
TDale313
(7,820 posts)6. Thank you for posting that!
Spot on.
kiva
(4,373 posts)5. And if you think it's bad this year in Brazil,
just wait for 2022...oh wait, we don't need to because the death toll has already begun:
The 2014 World Cup is just one month away, but its not too early to start feeling intense emotions about the 2022 World Cup. Specifically, fury. Thats the feeling I left with after watching ESPNs excellent E:60 documentary on the human rights disaster thats unfolding eight years ahead of the Qatar World Cup.
From the opening shots of a small, red coffin carrying a young migrant worker, E:60: Trapped in Qatar is a gut punch. In addition to interviewing widows of Nepalese migrant workers, reporter Jeremy Schaap travelled to Qatar and took unauthorized cameras to see laborers cramped, squalid living conditions. Previous journalists had been detained by police for attempting to film in these dilapidated housing projects.
Those terrible images and individual interviews with grieving family members would be infuriating enough, but then the documentary goes into the actual numbers. Because Qatar has such a tiny populationthe country has only about 280,000 citizensand the World Cup is such a large project, most of the work to build the infrastructure and eight to 12 state-of-the-art stadiums will be carried out by the countrys 1.4 million migrant workers. In the past year alone, according to ESPN, 184 Nepali migrant workers have died, mainly from sudden cardiac death caused by terrible working conditions and extreme heat. The Nepalese embassy in Qatar, meanwhile, says 400 workers had died on World Cup projects since 2010. And thats just the Nepalis.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_world_/2014/05/14/qatar_world_cup_migrant_worker_abuses_fifa_needs_to_do_something_about_the.html
delrem
(9,688 posts)7. However, Qatar is among "The Axis of Good".
It is, like Saudi Arabia, sacred ground for the MSM's intrepid journalists.
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)8. Holy shit. That is beyond appalling.
TDale313
(7,820 posts)9. Yeah, it really is. n/t