Brazil faces a crucial next four years.
The country has been given two opportunities to showcase its economic prowess and culture: the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics Games.
Preparation for both is already underway, but things haven't gone smoothly.
The kind of corruption other Brazilian industries have dealt with for decades has, not surprisingly, moved into Cup preparations.
And just as other third-world countries have done when trying to fix things up for large events, Brazil is doing its best to hide the large part of its population it wants few to know about: the poor living in terrible, drug-ridden slums.
On Sunday, Bob Ley of ESPN's Outside the Lines did a lengthy piece on what Brazil is doing to be ready in two years and how these preparations are affecting many of its residents.
Despite huge improvements over the years, Brazil is still a country of deep contrasts. Giant beach front hotels juxtaposed by...
immense poverty in the slums, known as "favelas"
Large swaths of the many slums surrounding stadiums are being leveled in exchange for government money for its former residents
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