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December 17, 2013

Brazil: Workers Protest Unsafe Conditions at World Cup Stadium 
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In Brazil, construction workers at a stadium that will host part of next
year's World Cup went on strike to demand safer conditions after a
worker plummeted to his death on Saturday. The worker was the second to
die from a fall at the stadium in the city of Manaus. At least three
other workers have died on construction sites of World Cup stadiums.
Meanwhile, police raided a protest occupation at a former indigenous
museum near the Maracana soccer stadium in Rio de Janeiro. Brazil
canceled a planned demolition of the building following protests earlier
this year, but protesters still fear it could be destroyed.

 

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