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.