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Brazilian Carla Dauden: 'No, I'm Not Going To The World Cup'

Costs of hosting next summer’s World Cup are expected to top $13 billion, a figure that’s criticized by citizens who say the country should be spending money elsewhere. The main points of the protests are summarized in this short video by Brazilian filmmaker Carla Dauden, entitled “No, I’m not going to the World Cup.”

live ammunition was fired by police.

Costs of hosting next summer’s World Cup are expected to top $13 billion, a figure that’s criticized by citizens who say the country should be spending money elsewhere. The main points of the protests are summarized in this short video by Brazilian filmmaker Carla Dauden, entitled “No, I’m not going to the World Cup.” It has more than 500,000 views in its first 24 hours.

A moving moment about a minute into the video as a doctor in one of Rio's understaffed, and underfunded hospitals rages "I am a doctor. I am revolted. I am alone in this crap here! There is nothing I can do for the excess of sick patients and the secretariat, the governor, they don't do anything!"

“It’s time we started thinking about our priorities and what’s important,” Dauden says at the end of the clip.

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