World Cup Tests Rousseff And Brazil’s Stars as Vote Nears
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The World Cup won’t only decide the planet’s best soccer team. The big spectacle’s success or failure will also help determine who’s going to govern Brazil.
Workers staged strikes in several cities today, including Recife in the country’s northeast where military police have walked out on the job. Following looting there, Brazil today sent in armored trucks and the National Guard. Protesters also snarled traffic in various points of Sao Paulo, including one area four kilometers from the city’s World Cup stadium, O Globo reported. Demonstrators marched against the elevated costs of hosting the world’s most-watched sporting event.