Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles We're coming up of a year the biggest protest result ever seen, some of the most aggressive We've got corruption, financial waste, all of the soccer hooligans are coming to descend on Brazil as well You got a pissed off population. It seems like a very, very large powder keg yeah In 2007, FIFA chose Brazil to host the World Cup It seems like a brilliant idea hosting the World Cup in the most football-fanatic country on the planet little did they expect that would become the focus of some of the largest protest Brazil has seen in decades. This mass civil uprising began in June of 2013 and it surprised even the most jaded Brazilians, hundreds of thousands of people paralyzed the cities across the country over a 20 cent increase in bus fares The police response was brutal in the beginning Elite military police units trained to pacify real slums were brought to quell demonstrations, but the police violence drove more people into the streets The police are the most corrupt in the world They aren't trained to think, the order is to attack. For the first time anyone can recall, the people began to lose their fear of the police The protests have been remarkable for another reason The public outrage bridged the wide class differences in Brazil Rio's college-educated kids are fighting side by side with party protesters from the favela who was born at front of Brazil's brutal police force Thanks to the World Cup, they now have a common enemy - FIFA, the world governing body of football and the unrivaled capitalism that it represents. In exchange for hosting the World Cup FIFA demanded upgrades to Brazil's infrastructure and internal security that's ballooned into the most expensive in football history some 15 billion dollars. The government insists that all of the spending is worth it We have the army, the navy, the air force, the Rio police, the federal police more than 20,000 men to provide all the security and comfort for those coming to the World Cup. But the past year has shown the population is fed up Cup no way! Fuck you FIFA! This outrage can only be contained through a massive mobilization of troops 170,000 military and police are being deployed to secure the games New laws have granted the military and police special powers to arrest demonstrators In a country emerging from decades of military dictatorship FIFA and the World Cup have given the police and armed forces a new reason to flex their muscles Team Brazil may do its magic during the World Cup but this is not about football anymore In rio we join probably the most peaceful protest of the year, the annual Marijuana March where everyone is too stoned to cause trouble we went there to meet up with Matias who has been filming the chaos in the streets from day one last year He's part of the Movement and activist of his own right who is not afraid to get his camera up in the face of the police What's your problem? Are you cornered? Are you guys afraid? Do you have fear? You are shooting randomly, what the fuck? Are you afraid of us? You are crazy! Go fuck yourselves You shot my camera you piece of shit Go fuck yourself you son of a bitch After hurling a bear can at a cop last year, he was arrested, but even that didn't stop him from filming We headed to downtown Rio where one of the largest riots take place to get an insider's perspective on what the demonstrations are really about Let's go. I think we're gonna run for it. Let' go. That's real Rio de Janeiro way of crossing the street. You know? We began with the the bus fares. The mayor was reelected As soon as office they raised the bus fares both Rio and Sáo Paulo you know that got people really pissed off it's like they've been tricked you know It sounds like politics man It's not about only 20 cent It's about everything. It's about the quality of life, it sucks. And in Rio and Sáo Paulo, the big cities and the big events such as the World Cup and Olympics. Half part of it's because people are seen like how many money founded But the World Cup you know is already the most expensive World Cup of history And it's all for people who don't live here It's all for the tourists exactly and it's sad because the Brazilians are so fanatic to football and just like they're missing the best of the part they're hosting the party but they can't be there. Yeah. Suck that. Matias is taking us to one of the largest protests in Rio's history took place last year Most of the protests until then had been hidden from sight and confined to poor areas in the favelas but this uprising took place right in the middle of downtown Rio There was the you know the protest going out all over the country something like Oh my god there's the fucking revolution coming. There's the fucking day I waited all my life you know People torched the car down there I got the final chance to first time see a car burning and they don't explode like in American movies. They don't explode? No, they just burn burn burn It was all expecting should it be exploding? No, it didn't You didn't get your action movie sequel time huh. haha yeah if the Brazilian team plays really bad you know like in the 2006 World Cup they suck it they played really bad you know yeah if that happens again things can get out of control because then all the population will be pissed off with their Brazil national team and come on now there's more like a one week of this gringos(foreigners) having party here you know that can be frightening so what you're saying is we're coming up of a year the biggest protest results ever seen some of the most aggressive. We've got corruption, financial waste just spread all over. Then, all of the soccer hooligans are coming to descend on Brazil as well yeah, so, you've got all the soccer hooligans, you got pissed off population it seems like a very very large powder keg yeah Football and politics are so intertwined in Brazil that whether by accident or design the presidential elections always happened in the same year as the World Cup the World Cup has been seen as a way for the government to boost its ratings and there's an official view that Brazilians love for football will override all of the problems. I don't believe we will have protests during the World Cup. I believe the World Cup will be protected by the people's will to support such a big event. I think that when the teams from all around the world start to arrive in Brazil, and the tourists from all around the world start to arrive in Brazil, we will have more of a party environment than an atmosphere of protest. But the events in Rio last year proved otherwise and could be an indication of what to expect during the World Cup in the city on June 30th 2013 Undefeated Spain played Brazil in the Confederations Cup Final Final at Maracanã stadium in Rio. This would be kind of a dry run for the World Cup 6,000 police were deployed around the stadium versus 1200 protesters At 7 p.m. the match started and with just a minute and a half into the game, Brazil got its first chance for an attack Fred number nine made an astonishing goal while lying down outside the stadium, protesters played football with tear gas canisters the police engaged a Molotov cocktail throwing protesters with rubber bullets tear gas and stun grenades Fred, one of the best attackers in football said that he done a lot of good things but never a goal. Outside, the riot became more dramatic as the game continued reaching a final climax as Brazil's Neymar fired a second goal his left foot high above the goalkeeper Brazil pummeled Spain's 3-0 defeating Spain's record 29-game winning streak but this spectacular win wasn't enough to keep protesters off the streets There will be no Cup! There will be no Cup! What's up? Any bullet marks on this car? I'm serious. Are there any? The dictatorship is over for the rich, but it goes on for the poor.
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