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Anti World Cup protests in Brazil

2014-03-14 188 Dailymotion

Another one of many protests in Brazil against this year's world football cup.<br/> <br />In this rally in Sao Paulo around 1,500 people took to the street to complain about the costs of staging the tournament.<br/> <br />They marched through the city centre chanting: "There will be no Cup".<br/> <br />Brazil has witnessed months of protests against the estimated $11 billion price-tag for the world cup.<br/> <br />These demonstrators say the money would have been better spent on improving poor public services.<br/> <br />SOUNDBITE) (Portuguese) LAWYER, CESAR MONTEIRO, SAYING:<br/> <br />"A World Cup is not our priority. Our priority is quality transportation, a system of quality universal health care, quality universal education. These are the demands of this protest in reality."<br/> <br />The demonstration was peaceful.... not surprising when the police outnumbered the protesters.<br/> <br />Recent protests have been small but some have turned violent.<br/> <br />Thursday's rally comes less than three months before the FIFA Wor

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