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Airport chaos anticipated for Brazil's World Cup as terminals remain unfinished
As if problems with the delayed stadiums was not enough, and with less than 10 weeks until the start of the World Cup, work on crucial new airport terminals has fallen behind in most of the dozen Brazilian host cities, heightening the risk of overcrowding and confusion during the tournament. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesThat puts the lie to the statement by one Brazilian minister that we always start late but always finish on time.
Apr 08th, 2014 - 07:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Unless he calls temporary canvas examination booths for the “bend-over” test a result!
It's not only the Yanks who will be pissed off by all accounts given nearly all the airports are unfinished.
I do hope all the flight control equipment needed is in place, I really do.
As Yankeeboy says, they will never be in the first world.
An effing tent!
Apr 08th, 2014 - 07:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The Army in the favelas.
FIFA should really have chosen another country.
Bribes?
The dollar is falling rapidly. This currency only serves to clean the back.
Apr 08th, 2014 - 07:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Brazil should demand something beyond the interview to grant Visa to U.S. citizens, because they will clog this country with their currency rotten.
What on earth are you on about now Brasileiro?
Apr 08th, 2014 - 09:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Chris, There will be very very very few Americans traveling to see a Soccer game.
Apr 08th, 2014 - 11:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Why would we go 13 hours to see something we dont' even watch in our own country?
Its not like the 100 of thousands of Brazilian illegals are going back to their horrible country. They like being waiters, bartenders and strippers here.
An organisational disgrace - enough said.
Apr 09th, 2014 - 12:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0According to FIFA the top countries for ticket sales are Brazil, USA, Australia, Columbia and Argentina. Brazil is understandable but the US is not a soccer country and AFAIK Australia isn't either.
Apr 09th, 2014 - 05:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0You are correct Hep, NFL remains numero uno in the USA.....MLB, NBA the NHL. However, based on the size of the USA.......40 million scoccer fans is small compared to the other sports. But 40 million is large in itself. And that number is growing annually.
Apr 09th, 2014 - 09:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0My company used to get tickets to our Soccer Team to give away to clients and the only people who ever wanted them were the janitors.
Apr 09th, 2014 - 10:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0There's a lot of janitors in the USA. But then again that's NYC, (my hometown). It's somewhat of an exercise in futility to insult an “opinion” based fact versus an irrefutable fact. One thing cannot be disputed, the world loves Futbol more than Football. The problem with us Americans is that we seem to think “our” way of life is best for the world. I've seen it in military actions and in our provincial way of politics.
Apr 09th, 2014 - 01:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Maybe now the Brazilians - those that blindly support the government no matter what - will start to realize they are barking up the wrong tree. The airports are the places where every foreign tourist will have to pass through....don't envy them.
Apr 09th, 2014 - 10:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@3 Brazzo, Your “”“ The dollar is falling rapidly. This currency only serves to clean the back. Brazil should demand something beyond the interview to grant Visa to U.S. citizens, because they will clog this country with their currency rotten”“”....WTF ????
So YOU only use 'greenbacks' to wipe your ass ??? c'mon , stop joking, we all know that you use last month's newspaper. As far as the 'visas' are concerned, as usual you've got it all the wrong ...it's the US that demands interviews from Brazilians who want a US visa....irrefutable proof that you - as I 've said all along - have never set foot out of Brazil, far less into the US.... get lost, numbnuts ...
Brasso has multiple 'personalities'. Not worth replying to any of them.
Apr 10th, 2014 - 12:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0However, if I am ever down your way Jack B. I will buy you a beer!
Or in VZLA!
I still have something left there! Might be expropriated next month. A supermarket, that the gov. says I must sell at a loss. yes, the property! Because I am making a loss and therefore not profitable. The Gov. says I am failing. But I can not pay my suppliers because I can not get dollars.
They Gov says I must sell at their chosen prices. Irrelevant of what I have paid/owe for my goods.
So I have not restocked. Apperently that makes my Manager (brother-in-law), a crimminal. No need for a Court of Law, he is apparently a crimminal because I refuse to sell at a loss.
Nearly bought a 30 old trout farm last year, whilst waiting for the lawyers, it was 'given to the people', who ate all the fish, pissed in the ponds and dammed the streams. It is a putrid swamp now. The formerly well-paid employees, and the 'colectivos' are living in worst conditions, broke and violent, Long live XXIst Century Socialism.!!!!!!!!!!!!
I got lucky, got out in time! Gonna close the supermarket next week. Can't sell the building tho.....
Always gave good prices, even the Los Chinos (my competition) are getting out.... asking me about London!!!!!
ilsen
Apr 10th, 2014 - 02:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0Sounds like not much of a choice - let them bleed you dry, forced to sell goods at a loss until the business folds and you walk away, property sold for debts owing,
or
Close shop, disobeying a Presidential (Dictator's) a Decree to subsidise the poor, and have business assets confiscated.
Class warfare, now. Maduro is making everyone equal & dependent on the government - no private businesses.
Ok, cancelling holiday to Cuba this year.
True. I believe the ultimate goal is to outlaw private business and make the whole of Venezuela dependent on the state.
Apr 10th, 2014 - 07:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0Thus we have equality and income redistribution. Everybody gets to be poor together! Hurrah!
Meanwhile the Central Bank of Venezuela has just admitted to losing $25 Billion.
Let us all ponder that a while.
$25 Billion USD.
..........?????
Beggars belief.
$25 Billion USD. Gone. Poof! Vanished. Never mind chaps, plenty more oil in the ground.
No wonder they call it The Devil's Excrement.
(Which, coincidentally is the name of a website banned in Venezuela due to journalist Alex Boyd's expose of the Boli-borguisie corruption, nepotism and stashing of money in Florida.)
Ilsen @12, gladly sit down with u over a beer..or two...you must have interesting stories to tell about Maduro's paradise...
Apr 10th, 2014 - 03:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 014 ilsen
Apr 10th, 2014 - 07:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Let us all ponder that a while.
$25 Billion USD. ”
and I don't imagine they (Maduro) are terribly outraged by that. I mean, after all, it wasn't really unexpected was it?
And Maduro knows where it is, right??
I'm waiting to see them pin it on the Protestors, somehow.
Cheers Jack. I expect you have a few tales from 'south of the border' too!
Apr 10th, 2014 - 09:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0:-)
Troy.
Yup $25 Billion USD
Trousered!
corrupt communist cannot handle or organize anything
Apr 13th, 2014 - 01:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
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