Danilo Macedo with Renata Giraldi        Reporters Agência Brasil

Brasília – Work on the new National Stadium is well underway and yesterday, a holiday in Brazil, two hotels built more than 30 years ago were imploded in the central part of the city to make way for a modern 500-room hotel complex. The implosion took less than 5 seconds, but the preparations have been underway for weeks (in fact, the two hotels have been empty for three months as they were carefully prepared for the implosion that cost an estimated R$1.3 million).

Two square kilometers right in the very center of the nation’s capital were isolated and everyone evacuated (including the EBC headquarters in the Vanancio 2000 building, along with one of Brasilia’s biggest shopping malls that is next door to EBC).

Allen Bennett – translator/editor The News in English

Link - Implosão de dois dos mais antigos hotéis de Brasília como parte dos preparativos da Copa leva menos de cinco segundos