This will be the second time Brazil will host the international football tournament, and it will be the 20th FIFA World Cup, the tournament there will take place in june and july 2014. Brazil hosted it for the first time back in 1950, and it is the fifth country to have hosted it twice, along with France, Germany, Italy, Mexico. It has been over 3 decades since the last time a World Cup was hosted in South America, the last one was in 1978 hosted in Argentina.
Although Brazil has won the world cup 5 times, 1958, 1962, 1970, 1994 and 2002, it is not clear that they are ready to host the tournament in 2014, especially in Rio, where it has been on the news quite often recently because of drug gangs from one of the biggest shantytown complex there. The head of Rio state's military police, Mario Sergio Duarte says that they won the drug war, they already brought freedom to alemao's residents.
This drug war has been going on for years, and every now and then it gets out of control, and the police has to intervene in order to protect its residents and the 6 million people that live in Rio.
The gangs protest against severe police program by burning vehicles, which has become a hallmark sign for the gangs, about 600 armed gang members still trapped inside and authorities sent more than 1,000 policeman and soldiers to storm the complex stating that invasion was inevitable, once the gang members are not willing to give themselves up.
Whoever is going to Brazil for the World Cup must wonder if this people from the shantytown have at least a garage to hide in, and if their garage door can protect them from the lost bullets out there.
We hope that the new president there Dilma Rousseff, being the first female president of South America, will ensure a peaceful environment for thousands of tourists going to Rio in 2014.
Meanwhile we can only hope this drug war ends soon and they do not damage all their garage doors out there.