World Cup 2014 – Welcome To Brazil
What ever happened the last weeks, months and years, the World Cup 2014 will start in Brazil today. Whether the stadiums are ready, the urban projects cancelled, the (foreign) football […]
What ever happened the last weeks, months and years, the World Cup 2014 will start in Brazil today. Whether the stadiums are ready, the urban projects cancelled, the (foreign) football […]
In the 20 years I live in Brazil, with every World Cup I always have seen the country transformed into yellow, green and blue. Now, this year, the year in […]
If a tourist or football fan visiting Rio de Janeiro comes across a “Robocop” out there, it’s not a carnival costume of a late reveller, but a member of the […]
In my series of articles about the World Cup in Brazil, and there is more to come in the near future, I have written about the street protests in Brazil […]
The almost certainty of violent demonstrations during the World Cup is not the only worry of the Rousseff administration. Neither the influx of European hooligans and neo-Nazis or Argentine barrabravas. […]
Don’t think that the street protests contra the World Cup Football 2014, organised by Black Bloc and supported by a wide range of social movements, is a minority affair. It […]
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, President Dilma Rousseff sold Brazil as the land of opportunity and economic responsibility. She continued to say that Brazil’s success is associated with […]
The protesting mob messed with the parliament, the presidency, while the actions echoed in the international press. The end of the year 2013 was marked by flooding streets after heavy […]