BRAZILIAN
PORTUGUESE: Leis para inglês ver... ‡‡
‡‡ ) “Just for show for the English...”
= a Brazilian aphorism
used by graffiti muralist Paulo Ito to refer to the billions & billions of
dollars being spent by the Brazilian on the forthcoming World Cup, & after that, the Olympics, while making deep cuts in programs
to fight poverty & dislocating thousands of residents from the stadium
sites, all of this galvanizing the Brazilian public, resulting in protests & riots, & esp. to the very weak
gestures the govt. has made in response to the protests; Paulo Ito has tapped into the
zeitgeist with a mural most recently captured in mural by Paulo Ito, adorning
the front doors of a São Paulo schoolhouse, a mural depicting a starving
Brazilian child of the favela w/ nothing but a soccer ball on his plate, & virally-replicated on social
& a-social media all over the world, web media & television — whether left- or
right-wing...
http://www.topix.com/br/sao-paulo/2014/05/mural-of-starving-brazilian-child-eating-a-soccer-ball-goes-viral
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