Qatar 2022 and brutal labor exploitation
Ruben Alexis Hernandez Between November and December of this year (2022), another edition of the great global football circus will take place, as is the final phase of the world championship, this time in Qatar, a small country located on the Arabian Peninsula. It is a nation with one of the highest per capita incomes in the world and with a high human development index, and yet it has the dubious honor of being in the eye of the storm, in the framework of the construction of sports facilities to be used during the sporting event in question. Note in this regard that many employed workers, mostly from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka, have been grossly underpaid and brutally exploited, to the point that many of them died from various causes, especially from the excessive effort during many daily hours of work and the terrible conditions of the work environment. Human rights violations wholesale, to the point of being denounced by Amnesty International. The foregoin...