Rio: A city in turmoil as Olympics looms large
Last Thursday in Rio de Janeiro, as cyclists made their way along a new bike path that follows the craggy coastline, a large wave hit and swept away a 50-metre stretch of the elevated route, killing two people. Coming with a price tag of €11m, not that costs can excuse cut corners and lost lives, it was seen as one of the major legacy projects of the upcoming Olympics. But rather than a tragic demonstration of what those Games might have in store for the wider world, it instead offered up a gruesome representation of the country right now.
Brazil is in freefall.
