Its football stadiums are built on Indian land, and its new-found wealth comes from the dispossession of the Indians and the theft of their lands.
by Emanuele Bonini (source: Survivalinternational)
An emerging country with one of the best economies in world, a nation with cars fuelled by grain alcohol. Brazil is astonishing the entire globe, playing a role more and more important in the international community. Now the southern American country will host FIFA World Cup, and Brazil will be the benchmark for all. For all but not for everybody. Indians are paying the highest price for such a renovation: exploitation, land seizure, housing destruction are the main activity behind new stadiums and football world cup, as denounced by Surival, the international organization for Native tribes rights. One of the most popular structure in word si Maracanà stadium. When rebuilding work started for the World Cup, a group of 70 Indians from 17 different tribes who were occupying an abandoned 19th-century mansion by the stadium were evicted, and their home destroyed, to make way for a giant car park and the construction of a football museum. The Indians wanted the building to be preserved as an Indigenous Cultural Centre. In Mato Grosso state live Nambiquara, Umutina and Pareci tribes. There Cuiabá stadium had to be rebuilt for the upcoming competition. According to Survival the Nambiquara suffered terribly because of the BR-364 highway, funded by the World Bank. In order to realize the highway the fertile valley that was their homeland was bulldozed. These are only two examples of the dark side of Brazil Survival was able to make public. «Scratching the surface you'll find a darker side», stated the ONG. «What's missing from the popular image of Brazil is the shocking treatment of its first peoples».
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An emerging country with one of the best economies in world, a nation with cars fuelled by grain alcohol. Brazil is astonishing the entire globe, playing a role more and more important in the international community. Now the southern American country will host FIFA World Cup, and Brazil will be the benchmark for all. For all but not for everybody. Indians are paying the highest price for such a renovation: exploitation, land seizure, housing destruction are the main activity behind new stadiums and football world cup, as denounced by Surival, the international organization for Native tribes rights. One of the most popular structure in word si Maracanà stadium. When rebuilding work started for the World Cup, a group of 70 Indians from 17 different tribes who were occupying an abandoned 19th-century mansion by the stadium were evicted, and their home destroyed, to make way for a giant car park and the construction of a football museum. The Indians wanted the building to be preserved as an Indigenous Cultural Centre. In Mato Grosso state live Nambiquara, Umutina and Pareci tribes. There Cuiabá stadium had to be rebuilt for the upcoming competition. According to Survival the Nambiquara suffered terribly because of the BR-364 highway, funded by the World Bank. In order to realize the highway the fertile valley that was their homeland was bulldozed. These are only two examples of the dark side of Brazil Survival was able to make public. «Scratching the surface you'll find a darker side», stated the ONG. «What's missing from the popular image of Brazil is the shocking treatment of its first peoples».
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