Brazilian protests spread all over the country

[balder]

As a Brazilian, I feel the duty to share here what's actually going in the country lately:

 

[King_Oni]

Just looking at the videos you post here it's obvious that the government doesn't give a damn about "their people".

However, I don't think Brazil is the only country where this is going on. 3rd world countries do have a different definition of "poverty" compared to first world countries, and perhaps it's that the difference between rich and poor is more obvious, than it is, in say... Western Europe or even in the US.

It's interesting to note how in this day and age, even non-violent protest will be met with force. There is no protest unless the governing force finds it justified... and let's be honest, they know what they're doing, so any "critique" towards them is not justified in their opinion. And that's the way it has always been.

However, on a global scale, the problem addressed in the video about the world cup is questionable. But we have seen this before. The olympics in China and the World cup in South Africa. What happened to those venues? Their among the most worn and torn buildings, in the area, and they cost millions. Yet, just because there's this prestigious event that comes around "once a lifetime" (and which one might argue... why do we have to cram them all in the past 50 years, and not define lifetime by the next 1000 years?) governments will turn sideways and restructure their priorities and finances.

If I were new here (new as in... "new to the human race") I'd think they wouldn't know better... but in fact, they know better, which makes it come across way more ignorant.

What many don't realize (I think), is that the way these things keep happening, at some point there's only a marginally small group of people left that will want to identify with a country. And that's where you can wonder how something is still a country in the first place

 

[balder]

I believe people wouldn't feel that way if the country wasn't so messed up. All world knows that Brazil has football as an old tradition, and maybe we are the country that most enjoy a "World Cup" (everything just stops here, no classes, work etc.). But we were told that this event would be used to make Brazil infrastructure better, and that didn't happen at all.

We have right now 4G in airports and stadiums in a country where mobile internet doesn't work (I live in a state capital and can't even use 3G), I have to wait hours for a bus to go to the Federal University (the average time is 1 hour, but it can get to 3). Hospitals and schools in Brazil are a joke, really. You have to wait for a year to make an exam, can you believe that? And the problem of shcools are solved only by creating quotas in Federal Universities for students that come from public schools. Security here a myth: bank assaults and murders are on news everyday.

I guess that when people started protesting pacifically against the raise of bus fares and were attacked by police, people finally opened their eyes to how we've been quiet while all that happened. Brazil is a democracy that behaves like a dictatorship...

I see people comment things like "You voted for them yourselves", but voting in Brazil is also a joke. The corrupt politicians pay the ignorant people (that are the great majority) and do small things during the elections so that they are constantly re-elected. And then we are told this is democracy...