From Red BlogsComunistas:
Translated from
Spanish to English from Google:
Red de Blogs Comunistas (RBC/ Red Communist Blogs network) wants to denounce the holding of the Olympics in Rio as violence
against the Brazilian people, and were also megaeventos made in recent years in
Brazil ,
such as the Olympic "business", have led to an escalation in violence
the state against the people, based on the following considerations:
1) In fact, the
Olympics have now little to do with sport, being an opportunity for the
enrichment of local capitalists and especially multinationals, without the
welfare of the masses nor the profit generated from the people, workers and
peasants.
2) For example, a
total of almost 77,206 people, between 2009, when Rio de Janeiro was chosen to
host the Olimpiadas- and 2015, according to the report by the People's
Committee Rio - Cup and Olympics a group that brings together unions, NGOs,
researchers, students, affected by interventions Cup and the Olympics ..
3) Between January and
July 2015, 408 people were killed by the Military Police of Rio de Janeiro in
occurrences registered as "autos resistance" (which would be a
legitimate defense of the police), which means an increase of 18,6 % compared
to the same period of 2014.
4) The state of Rio de
Janeiro is going through a very serious economic crisis, and after the Rio de
Janeiro government decreed a "state of public calamity" for financial
shortcomings, the granting of a credit of $ 870 million was negotiated,
authorized by President Acting Michel Temer last Wednesday (29), for public
security ( "public security" is the euphemism used to talk of
repression and control popular protests.
5) Despite the
difficulty, for example, payment of salaries of civil servants and demand
adjustments in spending for education and health, expenditure mega Olympic
event reaches 11 billion, 3 billion more expected when Brazil began as a
candidate for office.
6) In an attempt to
show the world that the favelas are "pacified" the Rio de Janeiro
government, with support from the federal government has increased spending and
the number of military police. The Ministry of Defense specified that 18,000 millitares
will be located in cities where football games (São Paulo ,
Manaus , Salvador ,
Brasilia and Belo Horizonte ),
and Rio de Janeiro
occurred receive 20 thousand men, being "approximately 14,000 Brazilian
Army, 4000 and 2000 Navy Aviation.
7) According to the data
requested by the Artigo 19 organizations and Global Justice to the Ministry of
State Security of Rio de Janeiro (Seseg) they were acquired 4000 personal
protective equipment, 18000 rubber bullets, 9000 activating smoke bullets
colorful (that loose paint to mark people in the crowd), 4500 Granada moral
effect, 4,500 tear gas and pepper sprays thousand gas.
8) Many of the costs
are covered by the Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) calls. According to data
of the municipality, only 43% of expenditure from the public budget, while 57%
comes from APP. However, from these APPs, the State guarantees to private
capital gains for periods of five to 35 years, secured by contract. In other
words, besides being another form of privatization of services and public responsibilities,
in the short term appears to have a low public spending, compromising it long
term
9) Police stations in
the UPP (fortified police stations in the slums or favelas) are centers of
torture, coercion against the poor and support the oppression and slaughter.
Example of impunity and license to kill has the police, the case of four
policemen who fired 111 shots from rifles against the car in which five young
people were in Costa Barros, a suburb of Rio de Janeiro, and wait in freedom
(with appearance) trial for crimes committed, and still remain in service.
Violent evictions of peasants and Indians are constant, as the operation
against the Guarani-Kaiowá of Mato Grosso do Sul, where the military, federal
police and the National Security Force, lambasted the people to immediately
withdraw for bands of gunmen enter shooting.
10) In short, the
Olympic Games will be held with the people of Rio de Janeiro and around the
country subjected to exploitation and oppression, colossal unemployment,
squeeze wages, tremendous rise in the cost of living, borrowing the masses
(public debt, the source of assault of public funds by the bankers, reached in
the coming months the amount of three trillion Reais (about $1 trillion
dollars) and subjected to fierce police violence and all kinds of ailments.
cruel crimes and police killings happen every day in poor and marginal
neighborhoods of large cities, as well as inside and zonasrurales.
Since the
completion of the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, in 2007, through the
World Cup, in 2014, until the Olympic and groups organized against the impacts
of mega sporting events Games, this year, popular movements have denounced the
increased violence against the population - with evictions and growing
militarization in the favelas - and the lack of transparency in the management
of the preparation of the city-sites, generating imbalance in the public budget
and denying the population the right to basic services
RBC sympathizes with
the struggle of the popular and social movements in Brazil against the Olympics against
the people, and calls them to continue the struggle, to face against the state
and the capitalist class that uses it to enrich passing over the rights, even
life itself, working class.
Rebel!
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by brazilvibes.com.
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