FIFA warns Brazil on Sao Paulo crime and insufficient infrastructure for 2014 Cup
FIFA general secretary, Jerome Valcke has warned Brazil of the increasing crime rate in cities like Sao Paulo and also stressed on the need of more infrastructure ahead of the 2014 football World Cup.
Valcke, overseeing progress on delivering the World Cup in Brazil, has highlighted a lack of hotels for the estimated 500.000 overseas visitors, but he also said that FIFA and the Brazilian football authorities now had a much better relationship.
Valcke had angered Brazilian officials in the past by suggesting that the stadiums would not be ready, but now he believes the risk of delay has moved on to such matters as the necessary number of hotels and vital improvements to airports and public transport.
“We are seeing a big wave of crime in Sao Paulo, which is not good for its image or tourism” Valcke insisted.
“In one unnamed city there are 17,000 hotel bedrooms and a 45,000 capacity stadium [for the World Cup],” he added.
“But we have now moved from talking about the problems to talking about the solutions. We are able to find and answer the problems,” he said.
Brazil is spending 15 billion dollars on infrastructure for the World Cup, which includes everything from the 12 new or renovated stadiums, to new bus lanes and airport extensions.
However rampant crime in Brazil’s largest city, Sao Paulo remains a challenge particularly with the wave of homicides which have cost the lives of almost a hundred members of the police in their fight against organized crime and drug dealers.
The situation has seen the city’s security chief sacked and all main chiefs of police removed with the promise of a more efficient and coordinated effort between the city and the federal government. The fact that the ruling Workers party gained control of the city in the last municipal elections should make support more fluid.
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I make Burn1938 my words and I would add... Yes Brazilian cucaratchas that control the government and have power there DO know how to handle but they prefer to steal, fraud, commit crimes, and lie. They are only focused in their criminal ideologies learned by Dilma, Lula, Palocci, and all these Guerrilero-Terrorists in the 70's during their training programs in Cuba by the famous dictator and criminal Fidel Castro. So... If the world wants to be 'nice' with these terrorists and even teach them how to promote the 'systemic fraud' which is the political and governmental system they created, it is up to the world. What can we do? Lula is a former prisoner by the Police in Brazil, his nickname 'Lula' was giving by criminals while he was in jail for fraud, corruption, and terrorism in the 80's. Same thing Hugo Chavez, same thing Fidel Castro, same thing Cristina Kirchner (montonera Terrorist), Dilma Rousseff hijacked an American Embassador in Rio in the 70's. They all were in jail, they all were considered criminals by the Army and the Police of Brazil, Argentina, and Venezuela and now that they have total power there they are proving that they should have never escaped from Prison, but the world does not care, the world goes to Brazil and invest in 'soccer games' and are spending billions of dollars for the local governments to do money laundry, anti-white campaigns, anti-American campaigns, anti-European campaigns, pro-enslavement campaigns (the famous Brazilian cheap labor that their own government takes total profit of), and so many other disgraces of Third World that the whole world seem to love and admire today as the 'new global normal'. Let's the whole world be Brazil!
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