Federal troops to Rio do Janeiro to try and contain attacks against the police

Sunday, March 23rd 2014 - 09:43 UTC

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The government in Brazil says it will send federal troops to Rio de Janeiro to help deal with a spate of violent attacks targeting the city's police. The decision came after the governor of Rio de Janeiro state, Sergio Cabral, asked President Dilma Rousseff for government support ahead of the football World Cup in June. Read full article

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ilsen
Football's coming home?

Good luck with all that!
Mar 23rd, 2014 - 10:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Klingon
Not even the cops are safe. I think I will sit this one out and watch the football from home. Whats is with Fifa's shitty choices in countries for the world cup?
Mar 23rd, 2014 - 06:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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golfcronie
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It would not be backhanders, would it?
Mar 23rd, 2014 - 06:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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yankeeboy
I remember when the World Cup came to the USA and nobody knew what it was, why there was such a big commotion and why there were tons of foreigners everywhere.
Mar 23rd, 2014 - 07:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Anglotino
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Because it is these shitty countries that need to placate the masses the most, so they can forget for a short while their miserable existence is predominantly due to their governments corruption and ineptitude.
Mar 23rd, 2014 - 08:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Hepatia
If the Brazilians are lucky this will help to keep the Brit soccer goons away. Even the UK government has realized the necessity of trying to indoctrinate their subjects against violence and pedophilia. However this behavior is so ingrained in the Brits that it can only fail. And no country wants to receive a gang of pedophile violent soccer fans with poor personal hygiene.
Mar 23rd, 2014 - 09:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ilsen
Let's just ignore Hepatitis @6 and not get derailed by blatant troll provocation please.
In my humble opinion, FIFA is a deeply corrupt organisation and therefore it is no surprise with whom it is likely to get into bed with.

Need I say any more.

Follow the money trail. Dirty, dirty bastards...
Mar 23rd, 2014 - 11:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Captain Poppy
#6 Hepatitis C How come they decriminalized child pornography in the penal reform bill in Argentina? Are all the kirchner's pedophiles? It went from 2 years in jail to decriminalization. I think it's a tribute to maximo the fat fuck kirchner.

http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/152101/experts-deliver-penal-code-bill-to-cfk
Mar 24th, 2014 - 01:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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ChrisR
I think anybody who goes to Brazil at anytime and gets hurt or worse has nobody to blame but themselves.

They must be mentally deficient if they go there during the WC.
Mar 24th, 2014 - 09:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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LatAmBurgher
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Hahaha, yes, absolutely right. Maybe we should just make the Cup a non-event and send it back to the U.S. Lord knows we have enough stadiums, a competent/multi-layered police force and a boring lull in the baseball season just at the time the World Cup starts.
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