Brazil is favored to win this year's World Cup, which starts today. Yet the cost of hosting the games, along with some expensive promises made by a president seeking re-election, may turn any athletic triumph into a Pyrrhic victory. Brazil's economy is sputtering. Seventy-two percent of Brazilians don't like how things are going in their country -- which comes as little surprise after more than a million of them took to the streets last year to protest price hikes, poor services and the billions the government was throwing at arenas and airports.
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