Brazil has already declared the World Cup a success

Brazil has already declared the World Cup a success
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The World Cup hasn't even been on for a week, yet Brazilian tourism officials have already declared it a great success.

"I think that the pessimists who were betting on a failure on our part need to revise" their views, Brazilian tourism official Carlos Magnavita remarked yesterday. While there had been fears that violent demonstrations and protesters — like this one captured live on CNN — would mar how Brazil is viewed on the global stage, Magnavita said they have mostly failed to materialize. Magnavita singled out the residents of Rio for praise, noting their "demonstration of civility" during the city's first game on Sunday.

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Jordan Valinsky is the lead writer for Speed Reads. Before joining The Week, he wrote for New York Observer's tech blog, Betabeat, and tracked the intersection between popular culture and the internet for The Daily Dot. He graduated with a degree in online journalism from Ohio University.