2014 World Cup - Brazil

                                            Group: André R, Felipe P, Felipe V e Gabriel S

After World Cup, Brazil Asks: Was It Worth It?

Despite the disappointment of the disastrous end to Brazil's World Cup campaign, the event has been seen as an unrivaled chance to bring the world to Brazil and Brazil to the world in a much-needed cultural Exchange. But the things didn't go bad with the team's campaign, we got another ''7x1'' outside of the field.

Thanks to the World Cup, more than 250,000 people were either directly or indirectly forcefully removed from their living spaces. The government compensated the evicted with only $22,000, not nearly enough to get by. The evictions mostly affect the poor because their property rights are not recognized by Brazil's legal system.

The total cost of the games was $12 billion, a price tag that many are convinced was not worth it, considering the social inequality plaguing the country. Brazil spent billions on twelve stadiums, even though FIFA only requires a minimum of eight built stadiums. Today, some of those stadiums, like the Arena Pantanal, which never hosted anything after the World Cup, are abandoned.

 Arena Pantanal, R$ 676 millions in the trash. 

Brazilian politicians only finished 10 out of 56 of their promised infrastructure projects in preparation for the games, and now, 2 years later, the projects are still unfinished. Also, during the execution of those projects, some people died. In São Paulo, an unfinished overpass collapsed in early July, and before that, in the Arena Corinthians, a part of the structure collapsed, killing 8 workers.

  Arena Corinthians after the accident.