from the perfectly measured pitches

golden sands and incredible landmarks of Latin America

Death, corruption, poverty, violence,

drugs and prostitution run rife through the nation and its many slums

better known in Brazil as favelas

600 thousand foreign tourists are expected to descend upon the nation 600

thousand people that Brazil has paid to accommodate. People that will come for

a month

and then leave but the effect on the local population has been

devastating and could last for years if you want to know the truth

about what's happening in Brazil you're in the right place I'm going to tackle

each section separately so here's your chance to pick and choose the area

you want to find out about

for those on mobiles and tablets I've stuck the timings in the description below

Prostitution is legal in Brazil

that may be shocking to hear for some but something even more shocking is

that in March 2013

Brazil's Higher Court of Justice ruled that adults having sex with a child is not

necessarily

considered a crime. Since 2009 the age of consent has been

14 years old. Children as young as

10-years-old are being forced to sell themselves on the street in order to make

money from fans coming over

if you saw kids on the street during a normal celebration it would be completely

innocent in Brazil it could mean something entirely different

In preparation for the World Cup the prostitutes in Brazil have been offered

an opportunity

the chance to learn English to entertain the foreign visitors

Igor Fuchs, a volunteer teacher says we teach basic expressions and also have

demonstrations with erotic paraphernalia

so they can learn the names, how to use them and how to propose them. Both women and

children are being exploited to squeeze money

out of the tourists.

Individuals in Brazil may be protesting their rights to basic amendments

a fair wage, public transport and security but as a collective

they also represent a fight for progression and to fix what the past has left behind

Rio alone has 763 favelas

which are home to 1.4 million people

22 percent of the population. The poor living near the beaches, hotels and

shopping districts

have been chased back to the slums and many have lost their homes

to construction.

The Landless Workers' Movement marched the streets of Sao Paulo

against urban developments which have left many homeless.

An indigenous protest in Brasilia marched against the backdrop of the Mane Gurrincha

National Stadium

the most costly of them all. Protesting against the rise in real estate prices

and forcing lower-income families out of their homes.

Some could say the authorities are trying to sweep the dirt under the rug.

The people of Brazil deserve basic human rights meaning good health care,

education, food and sustainable living. The month-long tournament has brought wealth

to the nation

a wealth spent on constructing stadiums and giant state projects

which has bought only 0.2 percent

to add to Brazil's economic growth of this year.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has defended the $11 billion

dollar expenditure on the tournament but local residents say that the development

projects they were promised

have been delayed or were never spoken of again.

This graffiti in the Vila Flavia shantytown take center stage in showing the hardships of life

that people here are tired of seeing with the World Cup

as a backdrop.

The World Cup has brought the construction of many stadiums to host the matches.

This has left numerous unfinished infrastructure projects which will be

rushed to completion.

The way many Brazilians see it is giant state projects run by the government

full of injustice, lacking safety, being mismanaged

and halting any advancement in society. This safety and mismanagement

has led to death.

The death toll when this video was made stood at an estimated nine people.

A worker building the monorail in Sao Paulo died after construction collapsed,

one by electric shock, three fell to their deaths, 1 suffered injuries after

dismantling a crane

two died under a crane collapse and one died in a fire.

All these tragic deaths symbolize the danger that the workers face in trying to

complete the construction for the tournament. This statistic doesn't even

take into account the people killed in pacifying

the warring favelas. Brazil's murder rate has more than doubled over the

past three decades according to latest research.

Brazil slum are wracked

with violence. Widespread protests kicked off years ago and small scale demonstrations

continue.

A police unit to pacify urban areas and lower crime rates was launched

in 2008 which did work for a while with a 50 percent drop in homicide

rates in Brazil. That is until now.

Despite efforts by police to rid the favelas of crime before the tournament starts

it has had little impact.

President Rousseff has said the country is ready

but Metro worker strikes and demonstrations from Brazil's people

threatened to coincide with the beginning of the tournament.

Rousseff said, "there are people who claim the resources for the World Cup should've

been directed to health care and education

I hear and respect those opinions but I don't agree with them.

It is a false dilemma.

Protests have descended into rubbish fires and Molotov cocktails from the people.

Tear gas, rubber bullets and pepper spray from the police.

The anarchic group Black Bloc led an anti World Cup protest march in Sao Paulo on

May 24

They are linked with destroying banks, trashing public property

throwing petrol bombs and attacking police with stones and clubs.

People have resorted to violence against the vast sums of public money being spent

on the World Cup

as opposed to being used to ensure acceptable health care

education and housing. Nearly two billion has been spent on security alone

deploying a hundred

thousand police and fifty seven thousand troops although the place had initial

success

in evicting gangs from the slums the move has been criticized as just

displacing them elsewhere. With violence on the rise again in the pacified areas it

appears

drug traffickers are seeking to regain their lost territory.

According to Compassion International in Fortaleza that

approximate thirty-five thousand inhabitants earn less than the minimum

wage

of 223 dollars a month with families of up to 10

sharing less than 20 square meters in space.

All the children wnat is to be far from home so they quit studying and become an

easy target for the drug dealers

in order to maintain their addiction they simply go to the streets.

And where there are celebrations there are drugs and where do those drugs come from?

Drug traffickers. The First Capital Command cartel known as PCC in brazil threatened

to launch

the 'World Cup of Terror' as a powerful gang responsible for the murder of more than a

hundred up the city's police officers

this threat aims to show the Brazilian authorities how much control

the gangs have. The favelas are in conflict to who will be in charge of drugs demand

for the World Cup and the pacifying police are taking on the areas

one by one with many innocent being caught in the crossfire

According to reports they'll only be able to take back

forty of a thousand favelas by the time the World Cup starts

Soccer in Brazil was a turning point for those who didn't have much money

something accessible that's what it represented

The FIFA World Cup 2014 is the most expensive in history and

leaves many homeless, exploited or even

dead.

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