The largest and most organized
criminal organization in Brazil has
threatened to unleash a “World Cup of
Terror” during the world’s biggest
soccer stage in the summer of 2014.


Just eight months before Brazil hosts the
World Cup, Brazilian police have
intercepted phone calls using wiretaps
from the First Capital Command (PCC)
drug cartel threatening a series of
attacks during the World Cup if the
government decides to transfer some of
its gang members to prisons spread
across the South American country,
according to Brazilian newspaper
Estadao.

The PCC was formed in Sao Paulo, Brazil’s
largest city, and operates within the
country’s prison system. Using cell
phones, lawyers and corrupt officials,
the criminal gang has managed to grow
to an estimated 11,000 members and
gain control of the country’s major drug
trafficking routes between Brazil, Bolivia,
and Paraguay.
The threat is being taken seriously by
Brazilian police who are tracking the
threats and are currently locked in a
street war with the gang. The PCC
murdered 106 members of the Military
Police in 2012 after revenge attacks
were ordered by the gang in response
to the execution by police of suspected
gang members.


But law enforcement authorities said it’s
highly unlikely the threat will affect the
World Cup games and said it shouldn’t
deter anyone from visiting the country
next year.
“It is a group that should be taken
seriously and being fought like any
criminal organization,” Sao Paulo’s
public security office said in the
statement. “However, the information
gathered so far by intelligence services
does not point to any indication that any
attack will occur. This is not the time to
generate alarmism.”

However, the Sao Paulo police chief has
asked his men to be extra careful when
parking their cars and traveling home.
The threats are just the latest concerns
before the World Cup opens on June
12th in Sao Paulo. Brazil has promised
FIFA to complete 12 new World Cup
stadiums and, according to government
numbers, six of the stadiums are yet to
be completed and five are only 90
percent completed. The country has also
been plagued with violence and protests
by Brazilians fed up with rampant
corruption and frustrated with the
enormous resources the nation is
allocating to prepare for the World Cup.
These days, there is a nationwide
movement against government
spending.
Teachers are currently striking in many
states in Brazil, calling for better work
conditions and salary increases. On
Tuesday night, in Sao Paulo, groups of
university students joined teachers
protesting for higher wages. Police
reported that four police officers were
injured, seven banks were vandalized
and at least 56 people detained before
the clashes between police and masked
demonstrators ended.

The government is investing an
enormous amount of money, an
estimated $14 billion to host the World
Cup, during a time in which Brazilians
feel the country should be investing in
public infrastructure and public salaries.
“The government is exercising imminent
domain and taking over the slums to use
the land for sporting infrastructure and
that is producing enormous
resentment,” Larry Birns, director of the
Council of Hemispheric Affairs, said of
Brazil’s efforts to clean up their slums
and rid areas of violent gangs. “It is
harvesting a lot of problems from its
past. It’s not that these things don’t
need to be built, but it’s being built
without the consultation of local people
and, in a way, that alienates the poor.”
Critics have said World Cup preparations
are benefiting the rich at the expense of
the country’s poor.
“It’s a bittersweet thing,” Birns said
about how Brazilians feel about hosting
the World Cup. “They are trying to do
decades worth of work in a year’s time.”


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Abeg, this people should not mar this much anticipated world cup. I don't know why some people don't just like peace and fun.

if this gets serious then i may not b in brazil

Nawa o. Make their sense correct o.

I hope by the time the World Cup would be held,the Brazillian government,would have sort this stuff out.

Danhumprey: I hope by the time the World Cup would be held,the Brazillian government,would have sort this stuff out.

How can you sort out problems that have been brewing for decades in one year?

Bad news. Dilma better do something.

Rossikk: How can you sort out problems that have been brewing for decades in one year?

I wonder o.

How will a country spend $14billion nd the teachers are on strike.lyk Brazil, lyk Nigeria(BIRDS OF D SAME FEATHER).

I have started changing my perspetion about naija. I thaught it is only here that things like this happen. My fellow anti-Jonathan gang make una come see say e de happen everywhere.