Some Brazilian people are a bit upset about the World Cup!

Brazil is a very big country, one of the biggest in the world!

Brazil there´s about 200 million inhabitants, last night, about 200 thousand people, it is about 0,20% of the whole country protested by improving public transport in the country. I can agree the public transport is not as in USA ou Europe, we don´t have metro (not in all the cities, just São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and more 4 capitals)...ok this is a good reason to protest.

The problem is a bit of this 200 thousand people don´t want the FIFA world cup in Brazil. They think that the money must improve the education, the health care system and social benefits. It is ok, is a very nice argument. The problem is, the FIFA World Cup will be next year, 2014, and everything is almost ready, the stadium,  the access roads to the stadium, the public transport to the stadium and other stuff.

Already spent so much money with all these improvements and it's been a long time since the Brazilian people know that the World Cup will be held in Brazil. The question is, why less than 0.2% of the Brazilian people are complaining just now? 

Some images of peaceful activist.

Some images of activists destroying buses belonging to the public transport system:

Some protesters don't want to pay for public transport:

"Passe livre já!" means free fare for public transport right now. We know it is almost impossible, I never heard about a country where the public transport is for free, maybe in a comunist country, Brazil adopts the political system of capitalism.

So dear reader, I wrote this text to show both sides of the protests, because I am a person committed to truth and would never omit facts. I would like to show other things:

Yes, we have health system, and it is for free to everyone (you don´t need to be employed). The name of our free healthcare system is SUS.

Yes, we have education and some of public and free Universities are among the best in the world:

USP - São Paulo

UFRGS - Porto Alegre

Unfortunately I can not show all the wonders that exist in the country so I invite you, dear citizen of the world to know it, the World Cup or elsewhere, come and find out for yourself!

But please do not be put off by fear and by threats of a few Brazilians who can not give proper value to their country! Living in fear is like living in vain!

Nice video with my city in Brazil! Join it and join world cup with us!

See you in Brazil!

Carol