(en) IFA - Open letter to foreigners (pt)

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