Indigenous protesters clashed with riot police on horseback in Brazil’s capital city of Brasilia on Tuesday as they tried to march the city’s main soccer stadium which will soon play host to the World Cup.
Opposed to how preparations for the upcoming World Cup have displaced people from their homes and what they see as the government’s lavish spending of vast sums of public money that could be used for better purposes, indigenous demonstrators joined those defending the rights of the homeless—some displaying bow and arrows and traditional dress—as they marched towards the Mané Garrincha National Stadium, the most costly of new venues built for the international soccer event that begins next month.
“Who is the Cup for? Not us!” the demonstrators shouted. “I don’t want the Cup, I want money for health and education.”
According to Agence France-Presse:
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