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28 June 2016
There was a nasty surprise awaiting passengers in the arrivals hall at Rio De Janeiro's Galeao International Airport on Monday.
Along with the relatives carrying flowers and taxi drivers waiting with name boards there were lines of off-duty police with banners that had a far more ominous message: "Welcome to Hell".
"Police and firefighters don't get paid," the banners, in English and Portuguese, went on. "Whoever comes to Rio de Janeiro will not be safe". Photos of the protest have been widely shared on social media and in the Brazilian press. The image above was posted on the photo sharing site Imgur, where it was viewed more than three million times in less than a day.
Elsewhere in the city police staged other demonstrations against the late payment of salaries and a lack of basic necessities like car fuel and toilet paper. Around 300 police officers dressed in black stood on the steps of the Rio de Janeiro state assembly. One banner read "The police's priority is the people, the government's priority is the Olympics". A spokesman for the Rio police force said the situation was dire. "We are in a meltdown," he said.
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liberal N proud
(60,302 posts)Why di Rio bid on it when they couldn't deliver?
Why did IOC award it to them without verifying that the could deliver?
LonePirate
(13,386 posts)After 2012 being in London, the IOC did not want to put the games in Europe again. Most presumed that favored Chicago and its very solid bid. However, Obama quickly left the IOC vote meeting in 2009 after speaking during the Chicago presentation instead of sticking around to glad hand the IOC members. That pissed off many of them so they moved their support from Chicago to Rio. Chicago was favored to win but they were eliminated after the first round leaving Rio as the preferred choice and eventual winner. The process created a backlash against the IOC by the USOC who refused to bid on the 2020 games which went to Tokyo. The site for the 2024 games is chosen next year and its anybody's guess if the rift between the IOC and the USOC has been mended.
RockaFowler
(7,429 posts)The water, the politicians, the environment, the police . . . My God how much money did they bribe the IOC to get this event??
Auggie
(31,067 posts)The police might just as well put up a welcome sign.