Brazil seals land borders with 30.000 troops ahead of the World Cup

Tuesday, May 13th 2014 - 08:14 UTC

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Brazil began deploying over the weekend some 30,000 troops to secure its borders as it prepares to host the World Cup that kicks off next month. The operation involving the army, navy and air force will extend over the 16,900-kilometer frontier separating the South American giant from its 10 neighbors. Read full article

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Brasileiro
Sovereignty is the greatest good of the state.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh9w7aI7Iq8
May 13th, 2014 - 10:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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yankeeboy
2. Agree, please ask the 100s of thousands of illegal Brazilians to leave the USA.
We don't need more waiters and bartenders.
May 13th, 2014 - 11:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Brasileiro
Right. I will ask Gisele Bündchen to return to Brazil.
May 13th, 2014 - 11:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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yankeeboy
Oh yeah the hookers can go too.
I am so happy Brazil never got visa waiver with the USA!
Gads we'd be infested with even more!
May 13th, 2014 - 11:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Conqueror
Let's all just remember that not one single “foreigner” will be “safe”. And the “official” Brazilian advice? Don't object or scream. And deploying 30,000 troops? Doesn't Brazil have 328,000? What are the rest doing? Month off because “foreigners” don't matter? Brazil is expecting 600,000 foreign tourists? Do the sensible thing. Make them grateful for the 600 that actually arrive. And let's hope they are all argies!

And Brazil thinks it “deserves” a seat on the Security Council. It should be extremely grateful if it gets a seat in an outhouse.
May 13th, 2014 - 01:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ChrisR
I was wondering if all the security was to keep the Brazilians from having it on their toes and leaving The Country of the Damned” at least during the footie.

First World Country: you must be having a larff!
May 13th, 2014 - 06:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Briton
Is this not militarising the south ,
and will CFK be sending a protest to the UN.

Justa thought
May 13th, 2014 - 07:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ilsen
All this. For some Footie!

First World Country? Arse!

PlayStation is better than this farce.
May 14th, 2014 - 04:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Jack Bauer
“It is the single largest mobilization carried out by the state to combat illegal activity from the north to the south of the country,” the government said in a statement”.
The fact that this mobilization is occurring at all, is quite surprising, but don't kid yourselves....after the World Cup, the troops will return to the barracks and the drug dealers and arms smugglers will carry-on their lucrative businesses over the borders, as usual. It is shameful that the government recognizes the fact that Brazil's borders are not patrolled as they always should be, and even more shameful that all this is just for show, for political reasons.
May 20th, 2014 - 10:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ilsen
will the hookers get a pension after?

What about the extra kids?

Will no one think of the children?
May 21st, 2014 - 01:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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