Summer is over for Brazil’s ‘marvelous city’. In a series of eerie and depressing new photos released last week, the 2016 Summer Olympic venues in Rio de Janeiro are seen filthy and deserted just 6 months after the end of the games, including the legendary Maracana Stadium. In a city that hoped desperately to be lifted out of poverty and debt by making back the money they spent, these are the ruins of a shattered dream.
Rio 2016 was boiled in scandal before it had even began, including a Zika virus outbreak, reports of doping by Russian athletes, and the impeachment of president Dilma Rousseff due to corruption. The second largest city in Brazil is millions of dollars in debt with international creditors, and now also owes over 900 thousand dollars to a local energy company.
Murky pools, worn terrain, and vandalisation can be found all over the Olympic park. Seats have been torn from the once-iconic arena. The future of these shockingly neglected buildings remains uncertain, but they’re unlikely to be a high priority among Rio’s long list of coming challenges.
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Share on FacebookThis, Beijin and Sotchi are very good examples why the olympic comitee need to review what qualifies a city for the Olympic games.. New installations should be forbiden and they should encourage investement in already existixing venues. There should be rules that will require cities and goverment to redistribute the goods and have a strong post-olympic plan for the use of the installations.. For example, Guiness World Record requires all food record attempts to have a plan to not waste teh food otherwise the record cannot be accepted.
New installations are required by the IOC with regards to safety standards. From the hosts perspective, these new installations are a good way to showcase prestige and architecture - it's not about sports but about showing off to the world for a few weeks
Load More Replies...Well we all knew this was gonna happen. If you don't have a post plan for these venues, you are obviously going to be screwed. You MUST have a post Olympics plan!
The only plan that works is a pre-Olympics plan - and that plan is "Do not host the Olympics." It never does anything positive for the host city. The Olympics talk about equality and peace between peoples, but promotes human rights abuse to meet its insane standards. Hypocrites to the highest degree. F**k the Olympics.
Load More Replies...I never understood why Olympic venues can't be converted into community areas. Even if you charge admission, at least they are being used!
Here in Los Angeles, the venues that were used for the Olympics decades ago are being used by the public for recreation, concerts, and now temp-hosting one of our football teams. If we get the Games again in 2024, we already have plans for the buildings left behind.
Load More Replies...And Hungarian government wants Budapest 2024 while half of the country can barely afford to eat at the end of the month (this is only the tip of the iceberg) #nolimpia
''half of the country can barely afford to eat at the end of the month'' Are you serious when saying that? I am turkish so i don't know much about Hungary but i didn't know things were so bad in an European country. It's interesting.
Load More Replies...This is really sad. Couldn't we provide access to the the local populations? So that they could both, maintain and profit from such investments? I hope someone will overcome these challenges. Brazil, we beleive in you!
One of the articles said the local football (i.e. Soccer) clubs had put a proposal together for at least the football field, never heard what happened with that.
Load More Replies...I thought the whole idea behind this was to use the venues afterwards for training and recreation? I know that the venues in Calgary have been used extensively for these purposes. I'm not sure about the one in Whistler. (Canadian here) Everyone in Vancouver was certainly glad for the new Sky-Train line. There were many who whined and complained it would never get used, but the first day of operation, it got so much use that they had to put in additional trains. They then sold the apartments from the Olympic Village as regular apartments after. For sure have to have a plan. But, yeah, this is depressing : / Some of those look like they've been abandoned for 10 years!
The IOC should really consider semi-permanent fixtures for the summer olympics and for the winter olympics. Is there really a need to rebuild half of the ventures every single edition? There are plenty of abandoned former sport complexes around the world, often used only once. They should just decide on a location on every continent and have different host countries provide for the cost every cycle. It shouldn't be too difficult to reuse the complexes for yearly sport competitions either and for the regional sport events. Of course deciding where to build these complexes and the prestige that comes with it, is one the IOC will have to discuss.
As a Brazilian I must say ... Here in BRASIL corruption speaks louder than ordinary citizens. Do not think it was "invested" money in these works because a lot of money went into the pocket of business builders and politicians in these unnecessary works of the World Cup and the Olympics. The country suffers and politicians such as rats devour our money every day. All these unnecessary and useless works were overpriced, suffered delays, many were made incomplete and all defects were hidden and made up. It is even shameful to say that "I am Brazilian" ... There is no way to have patriotism with so much corruption and unpunished crime here.
I'm not seeing anything new, this is typical of Brazil, it has everything to be one of the biggest countries in the world, both in environmental wealth and huge economy, but loses everything for the coruption and criminals, if it were better managed, it will be an excellent country To live, and to live well
Agreed. And what makes me even sadder is that the Brazilian people (at least the few I am friends with) are so damn passionate about their country and their people and they are hard workers, and they so desperately want their country to reflect that
Load More Replies...They should have invested in housing for the poor people in Brazil instead of wasting all that money on this sports Olympics shite. just to let it rot away like this, so disgusting, there is no wonder the poor Brazilian people go out robbing every day and night to get enough to feed their families and get their drugs when their government wastes money like this and does not give a f**k about their own people..
Its like getitng a loan for a Ferrari and not being able to afford the maintenance.
Huuuuuh? I remember they promised to take it all away and build trees... Did I confuse something, or was it all just a pretty performance?
They did plant trees, but not at this place!
Load More Replies...What a waste, they could have used the money for much needed projects so badly in Rio and Brazil. Shame on the people in charge. Next time think, maybe there should be a list of requirements that host counties have to meet before they can hold huge sporting events
very little thought put into what the buildings could be used for afterwards, before building them. Sorta self inflicted, if anyone thinks these people are attempting to recover their losses, then explain the thousands of objects thrown into a pile to decay, instead of, say, making the building a rec center or donating all the chairs and electronics to schools/libraries/hospitals. Andd by the way, steel beams, asphalt, wood, etc... are *reusable* materials. All these refined resources; baking in the Brazilian Heat...
ATL, LA ,& Russia, Australia utilized Olympics facilities their appropriately . Proving a city or country , or continent when a strong pre-Profitable infrastructure set for the Olympics can be a all around positive event! May be the IOC should make a considered host cities introduce a post games financial & utilazation of facilities plan . If a considered host city cannot provide this to IOC, with financial plans = no games. Proving the host cites with no stable financial infrastructure fail .3 Examples LA- Rams stadium, ATL Georgia Tech used Olympics Village for dorms. Russia uses the Olympics Village apartments as low income housing. In court revitalization projects or property inbankruptcy legal plans of action must be deemed financially stable . If it is,not, it is not. NO action or project is allowed to legally occur. Brazil Clearly the photos prove , it would not have been allowed to host the games. That is how the IOC needs to require this for host cities .
The worst place to have the olympics. The insane $$ thats spent, so many poor here. I left Canada when the olympics came here, don't agree with it
I'm from Brazil and it's so unpleasant! The stadiums were overpriced and there was a lot of corruption in the construction process of these sports complexes. And now this ??? Waste and neglect by the administrators of what would be the sporting heritage for our athletes and citizens! It's a shame!
Oh great.....humans USE and ABUSE once again. So you're just going to let it all waste away and pollute the Earth?Most of it could be recycled or be reused..........but NO~~that's too inconvenient isn't it!? **HOPE FLOATS** brings up a good point about Brazil's children having so little, these properties would give them a place to go instead of the dangerous Brazil streets.
That is just really sad. What a waste of people's time, money and effort. What is wrong with the people of Rio? Do they just not know how to appreciate the good things in life? smh!
It is the legacy of governments that just think about self, filling their pockets and fat bank account in fiscal paradises, like Panama' United States and others. They get their riches by stilling public money and receiving bribes even to pass laws to favor their bribes payors.
It is so very sad to see this...the country was broke to begin with to do this got the funding and now ...what waste i am sure there is something these venues could be used for...but if they cant afford the upkeep then..you are going to let it go then instead of leaving everything to go to ruins sell the seats they are numbered they are from the olympics like really make money instead of leaving it to rot...sickening..dont host something if you cant afford to look after it later...and where is the olympic committees heads for even doing this. And there are so many of these not just brazil...
This is not surprising at all. The country could barely afford the costs of building these venues for the games. They cannot afford to spend money to maintain it just so the rest of the world feels better about it. This is what happens when countries who can't afford to support their own people take on the massive expense of the Olympic Games.
We are carrying out Environmental Summits, talking s**t on stage about Global Warming and then pump millions into a couple-weeks-long event, which wont bring any benefits after it is over. *Slow clapping*
Why does any country want to host the Olympics? The answer, of course, is so that they can shift middle-class taxpayer money to the government's corporate overlords. The competition should be to punish a country by forcing it to host the Olympics, rather than treating it as a prize.
I am Brazilian and tis kinda stuff aways happens because of our CORRUPTs GOVERNATORS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THEY ARE ALL RATS AND THEY DESERVE TO DIE IN JAIL!!!!!!!BRAZILIAN PEOPLE MUST WAKE UP AND DO LIKE FRANCE SOMEYEARS AGO AGAINST THE KING AND QUEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That was so obvious before the start. Only dead-brained people believed those lies.
Welcome to our corrupt world of monetary gain for the few over lives of many. Discontent is the most experienced feeling in this world.
And it s not the only site like this ... Maybe it would be clever to build one site in each continent at the "center" and turn !
Fact is, it's wasted money. Just imagine how many hospitals and schools you could have build with this money?
Exactly why the Olympics should be held in a small series of alternating venues in countries that can afford it. Be realistic!
We've had regular Olympics for the longest time, and yet everyone is still deluded that the games are anything but lining the pockets of the committee members and their cronies? I guess it's like the old con-man saying, "there's a sucker born every minute".
They never had the resources to keep it up. So much corruption in pulling off The Olympics.
The IOC requires new facilities because IOC officials are corrupt and want all these bright, shiny new facilities because they want lots of money spent. Safety is the least of their concerns.
What an utter and utter shame - all show and no substance, I think it was absolutely wrong for the IOC to "award" Brazil considering what they were going through. This was a showing of pride, and no more...I feel bad for the people of Rio who are worse off now than they were before. As if magically the Olympics would lift the city and country from bad management.
This is a disgrace!!! And it's not the first time the Olympic Games leaves great amounts of resource in the shape of constructions behind!
I think the Olympic committee has a responsibility to make sure that these construction are useable as well as recirkel-able
Load More Replies...Oh for Pete's sake, what did you expect? The Olympics should be rotated among the G8 nations. Forget the PC multicultural nonsense. Any country that cannot run itself is obviously not going to be able to run an Olympic competition. I shudder to think where they intend to have the next one... Somalia? Haiti? Bosnia perhaps? Good grief.
The Olympic games are a madness that needs to either stop or seriously downsize. I hope that, eventually, everybody will have learned the lesson and simply not host it anymore.
And all the lives lost and poor people kicked out if their hovels to facilitate this 'imposterish' foolishness.
Upside....anyone shooting post apocalyptic movies Brazil is a nice spot.
the water is sooooo gross looking... but if they were just going to let the place rot then why didn't they open it to the public?
Disgraceful that this kind of money is spent so that someone can get a trophy.
And those bastard brazilians were protesting against these investments. Shame on them for not trusting the honest politicians!
Dear Cybelle, I'm Brazilian (even I'm not a bastard). The question is: is there a honest politician in Brazil? Trust me, many brazilians, many cariocas, as me, didn't want the games in the city. We knew the consequences...
Load More Replies...Terrible waste of money having these games in countries like Brazil, money could have been used elsewhere, having the world cup and the olympics only benefited the advertisers and corrupt officials and did noting for the people. Puts the blame squarely on the IOC and FIFA and their shady backroom dealings.
Bored Panda, president Dilma Rousseff's impeachment happened becouse of a coup. Please, rephrase it.
HAHAHA, even here has militant cheated by the PT (Workers' Political Party, which had nothing to do with workers, only their money), people without shame. Whoever supports corrupt or profits from them or is very stupid and is part of the needy and deceived population. Were long 13 years of stealing the nation. Stealing public money. Money of the people. Do not be stupid to say that there was a coup against the corrupt Dilma Roussef. The current rulers are as corrupt as those of her party, but her party has stolen the people for 13 years.
Load More Replies...This happens with pretty much EVERY olympics. Nothing new or extraordinary here. It's all about politics and particular people who DO make alot of money of of this. This endresult was already decided long before the buildings were even build. They never plan to maintain anything even before everything was build. It's all build for politics, fame and money (Not for the town).
Yes, it happens to every Olympic village. But, Rio is facing at the moment huge problems - the state is broke, they cannot pay their public servants, the police currently went on strike (or just planned? Maybe I am misinformed, it changes quickly), their crime rate is high. I see, that all this waste is a pitty, but I also understand if right now it is not their focus. (For me it seems though, that many of their problem is connected to these spendings. They just held an Olympics, but the state is dead broke? Well....)
"the impeachment of president Dilma Rousseff due to corruption" Hold your horses, tiger. Five months after the political coup, there's still zero evidence of corruption by the former president, so... yeah.
Summer is over? Where? Summer HERE (in Rio) started in december. Take a hint.
I think the writer referred to the "good times" being over with the reference to summer, not the actual summer season?
Load More Replies...Some pictures are not real!! And other are about the site when was under construction
Have anything to back that statement up? Sounds to me like you're claiming something without proof.
Load More Replies...This, Beijin and Sotchi are very good examples why the olympic comitee need to review what qualifies a city for the Olympic games.. New installations should be forbiden and they should encourage investement in already existixing venues. There should be rules that will require cities and goverment to redistribute the goods and have a strong post-olympic plan for the use of the installations.. For example, Guiness World Record requires all food record attempts to have a plan to not waste teh food otherwise the record cannot be accepted.
New installations are required by the IOC with regards to safety standards. From the hosts perspective, these new installations are a good way to showcase prestige and architecture - it's not about sports but about showing off to the world for a few weeks
Load More Replies...Well we all knew this was gonna happen. If you don't have a post plan for these venues, you are obviously going to be screwed. You MUST have a post Olympics plan!
The only plan that works is a pre-Olympics plan - and that plan is "Do not host the Olympics." It never does anything positive for the host city. The Olympics talk about equality and peace between peoples, but promotes human rights abuse to meet its insane standards. Hypocrites to the highest degree. F**k the Olympics.
Load More Replies...I never understood why Olympic venues can't be converted into community areas. Even if you charge admission, at least they are being used!
Here in Los Angeles, the venues that were used for the Olympics decades ago are being used by the public for recreation, concerts, and now temp-hosting one of our football teams. If we get the Games again in 2024, we already have plans for the buildings left behind.
Load More Replies...And Hungarian government wants Budapest 2024 while half of the country can barely afford to eat at the end of the month (this is only the tip of the iceberg) #nolimpia
''half of the country can barely afford to eat at the end of the month'' Are you serious when saying that? I am turkish so i don't know much about Hungary but i didn't know things were so bad in an European country. It's interesting.
Load More Replies...This is really sad. Couldn't we provide access to the the local populations? So that they could both, maintain and profit from such investments? I hope someone will overcome these challenges. Brazil, we beleive in you!
One of the articles said the local football (i.e. Soccer) clubs had put a proposal together for at least the football field, never heard what happened with that.
Load More Replies...I thought the whole idea behind this was to use the venues afterwards for training and recreation? I know that the venues in Calgary have been used extensively for these purposes. I'm not sure about the one in Whistler. (Canadian here) Everyone in Vancouver was certainly glad for the new Sky-Train line. There were many who whined and complained it would never get used, but the first day of operation, it got so much use that they had to put in additional trains. They then sold the apartments from the Olympic Village as regular apartments after. For sure have to have a plan. But, yeah, this is depressing : / Some of those look like they've been abandoned for 10 years!
The IOC should really consider semi-permanent fixtures for the summer olympics and for the winter olympics. Is there really a need to rebuild half of the ventures every single edition? There are plenty of abandoned former sport complexes around the world, often used only once. They should just decide on a location on every continent and have different host countries provide for the cost every cycle. It shouldn't be too difficult to reuse the complexes for yearly sport competitions either and for the regional sport events. Of course deciding where to build these complexes and the prestige that comes with it, is one the IOC will have to discuss.
As a Brazilian I must say ... Here in BRASIL corruption speaks louder than ordinary citizens. Do not think it was "invested" money in these works because a lot of money went into the pocket of business builders and politicians in these unnecessary works of the World Cup and the Olympics. The country suffers and politicians such as rats devour our money every day. All these unnecessary and useless works were overpriced, suffered delays, many were made incomplete and all defects were hidden and made up. It is even shameful to say that "I am Brazilian" ... There is no way to have patriotism with so much corruption and unpunished crime here.
I'm not seeing anything new, this is typical of Brazil, it has everything to be one of the biggest countries in the world, both in environmental wealth and huge economy, but loses everything for the coruption and criminals, if it were better managed, it will be an excellent country To live, and to live well
Agreed. And what makes me even sadder is that the Brazilian people (at least the few I am friends with) are so damn passionate about their country and their people and they are hard workers, and they so desperately want their country to reflect that
Load More Replies...They should have invested in housing for the poor people in Brazil instead of wasting all that money on this sports Olympics shite. just to let it rot away like this, so disgusting, there is no wonder the poor Brazilian people go out robbing every day and night to get enough to feed their families and get their drugs when their government wastes money like this and does not give a f**k about their own people..
Its like getitng a loan for a Ferrari and not being able to afford the maintenance.
Huuuuuh? I remember they promised to take it all away and build trees... Did I confuse something, or was it all just a pretty performance?
They did plant trees, but not at this place!
Load More Replies...What a waste, they could have used the money for much needed projects so badly in Rio and Brazil. Shame on the people in charge. Next time think, maybe there should be a list of requirements that host counties have to meet before they can hold huge sporting events
very little thought put into what the buildings could be used for afterwards, before building them. Sorta self inflicted, if anyone thinks these people are attempting to recover their losses, then explain the thousands of objects thrown into a pile to decay, instead of, say, making the building a rec center or donating all the chairs and electronics to schools/libraries/hospitals. Andd by the way, steel beams, asphalt, wood, etc... are *reusable* materials. All these refined resources; baking in the Brazilian Heat...
ATL, LA ,& Russia, Australia utilized Olympics facilities their appropriately . Proving a city or country , or continent when a strong pre-Profitable infrastructure set for the Olympics can be a all around positive event! May be the IOC should make a considered host cities introduce a post games financial & utilazation of facilities plan . If a considered host city cannot provide this to IOC, with financial plans = no games. Proving the host cites with no stable financial infrastructure fail .3 Examples LA- Rams stadium, ATL Georgia Tech used Olympics Village for dorms. Russia uses the Olympics Village apartments as low income housing. In court revitalization projects or property inbankruptcy legal plans of action must be deemed financially stable . If it is,not, it is not. NO action or project is allowed to legally occur. Brazil Clearly the photos prove , it would not have been allowed to host the games. That is how the IOC needs to require this for host cities .
The worst place to have the olympics. The insane $$ thats spent, so many poor here. I left Canada when the olympics came here, don't agree with it
I'm from Brazil and it's so unpleasant! The stadiums were overpriced and there was a lot of corruption in the construction process of these sports complexes. And now this ??? Waste and neglect by the administrators of what would be the sporting heritage for our athletes and citizens! It's a shame!
Oh great.....humans USE and ABUSE once again. So you're just going to let it all waste away and pollute the Earth?Most of it could be recycled or be reused..........but NO~~that's too inconvenient isn't it!? **HOPE FLOATS** brings up a good point about Brazil's children having so little, these properties would give them a place to go instead of the dangerous Brazil streets.
That is just really sad. What a waste of people's time, money and effort. What is wrong with the people of Rio? Do they just not know how to appreciate the good things in life? smh!
It is the legacy of governments that just think about self, filling their pockets and fat bank account in fiscal paradises, like Panama' United States and others. They get their riches by stilling public money and receiving bribes even to pass laws to favor their bribes payors.
It is so very sad to see this...the country was broke to begin with to do this got the funding and now ...what waste i am sure there is something these venues could be used for...but if they cant afford the upkeep then..you are going to let it go then instead of leaving everything to go to ruins sell the seats they are numbered they are from the olympics like really make money instead of leaving it to rot...sickening..dont host something if you cant afford to look after it later...and where is the olympic committees heads for even doing this. And there are so many of these not just brazil...
This is not surprising at all. The country could barely afford the costs of building these venues for the games. They cannot afford to spend money to maintain it just so the rest of the world feels better about it. This is what happens when countries who can't afford to support their own people take on the massive expense of the Olympic Games.
We are carrying out Environmental Summits, talking s**t on stage about Global Warming and then pump millions into a couple-weeks-long event, which wont bring any benefits after it is over. *Slow clapping*
Why does any country want to host the Olympics? The answer, of course, is so that they can shift middle-class taxpayer money to the government's corporate overlords. The competition should be to punish a country by forcing it to host the Olympics, rather than treating it as a prize.
I am Brazilian and tis kinda stuff aways happens because of our CORRUPTs GOVERNATORS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THEY ARE ALL RATS AND THEY DESERVE TO DIE IN JAIL!!!!!!!BRAZILIAN PEOPLE MUST WAKE UP AND DO LIKE FRANCE SOMEYEARS AGO AGAINST THE KING AND QUEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That was so obvious before the start. Only dead-brained people believed those lies.
Welcome to our corrupt world of monetary gain for the few over lives of many. Discontent is the most experienced feeling in this world.
And it s not the only site like this ... Maybe it would be clever to build one site in each continent at the "center" and turn !
Fact is, it's wasted money. Just imagine how many hospitals and schools you could have build with this money?
Exactly why the Olympics should be held in a small series of alternating venues in countries that can afford it. Be realistic!
We've had regular Olympics for the longest time, and yet everyone is still deluded that the games are anything but lining the pockets of the committee members and their cronies? I guess it's like the old con-man saying, "there's a sucker born every minute".
They never had the resources to keep it up. So much corruption in pulling off The Olympics.
The IOC requires new facilities because IOC officials are corrupt and want all these bright, shiny new facilities because they want lots of money spent. Safety is the least of their concerns.
What an utter and utter shame - all show and no substance, I think it was absolutely wrong for the IOC to "award" Brazil considering what they were going through. This was a showing of pride, and no more...I feel bad for the people of Rio who are worse off now than they were before. As if magically the Olympics would lift the city and country from bad management.
This is a disgrace!!! And it's not the first time the Olympic Games leaves great amounts of resource in the shape of constructions behind!
I think the Olympic committee has a responsibility to make sure that these construction are useable as well as recirkel-able
Load More Replies...Oh for Pete's sake, what did you expect? The Olympics should be rotated among the G8 nations. Forget the PC multicultural nonsense. Any country that cannot run itself is obviously not going to be able to run an Olympic competition. I shudder to think where they intend to have the next one... Somalia? Haiti? Bosnia perhaps? Good grief.
The Olympic games are a madness that needs to either stop or seriously downsize. I hope that, eventually, everybody will have learned the lesson and simply not host it anymore.
And all the lives lost and poor people kicked out if their hovels to facilitate this 'imposterish' foolishness.
Upside....anyone shooting post apocalyptic movies Brazil is a nice spot.
the water is sooooo gross looking... but if they were just going to let the place rot then why didn't they open it to the public?
Disgraceful that this kind of money is spent so that someone can get a trophy.
And those bastard brazilians were protesting against these investments. Shame on them for not trusting the honest politicians!
Dear Cybelle, I'm Brazilian (even I'm not a bastard). The question is: is there a honest politician in Brazil? Trust me, many brazilians, many cariocas, as me, didn't want the games in the city. We knew the consequences...
Load More Replies...Terrible waste of money having these games in countries like Brazil, money could have been used elsewhere, having the world cup and the olympics only benefited the advertisers and corrupt officials and did noting for the people. Puts the blame squarely on the IOC and FIFA and their shady backroom dealings.
Bored Panda, president Dilma Rousseff's impeachment happened becouse of a coup. Please, rephrase it.
HAHAHA, even here has militant cheated by the PT (Workers' Political Party, which had nothing to do with workers, only their money), people without shame. Whoever supports corrupt or profits from them or is very stupid and is part of the needy and deceived population. Were long 13 years of stealing the nation. Stealing public money. Money of the people. Do not be stupid to say that there was a coup against the corrupt Dilma Roussef. The current rulers are as corrupt as those of her party, but her party has stolen the people for 13 years.
Load More Replies...This happens with pretty much EVERY olympics. Nothing new or extraordinary here. It's all about politics and particular people who DO make alot of money of of this. This endresult was already decided long before the buildings were even build. They never plan to maintain anything even before everything was build. It's all build for politics, fame and money (Not for the town).
Yes, it happens to every Olympic village. But, Rio is facing at the moment huge problems - the state is broke, they cannot pay their public servants, the police currently went on strike (or just planned? Maybe I am misinformed, it changes quickly), their crime rate is high. I see, that all this waste is a pitty, but I also understand if right now it is not their focus. (For me it seems though, that many of their problem is connected to these spendings. They just held an Olympics, but the state is dead broke? Well....)
"the impeachment of president Dilma Rousseff due to corruption" Hold your horses, tiger. Five months after the political coup, there's still zero evidence of corruption by the former president, so... yeah.
Summer is over? Where? Summer HERE (in Rio) started in december. Take a hint.
I think the writer referred to the "good times" being over with the reference to summer, not the actual summer season?
Load More Replies...Some pictures are not real!! And other are about the site when was under construction
Have anything to back that statement up? Sounds to me like you're claiming something without proof.
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