Mutilated body washes up on Rio Olympic beach volleyball venue...

stringer bell
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/29/rio-de-janeiro-mutilated-body-beach-olympics-volleyball?CMP=edit_2221
Parts of a mutilated body have washed up on the sands of Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro just meters from where beach volleyball athletes will compete in the upcoming Olympics.

The discovery is the latest to unnerve the city as it grapples with rising crime, a recession and exhausted state finances at a time when it hoped to be celebrating the first Olympics ever held in South America.

It was unclear Wednesday afternoon what conditions may have led to the mutilated body but a policeman standing guard by a security perimeter confirmed its existence to Reuters.


Police officials did not immediately return calls to their public affairs office for more details Wednesday afternoon.

The Olympics, which start 5 August, were intended to show off an economic boom that has since fizzled in Latin America’s biggest country. Now the Games come as the state of Rio de Janeiro awaits emergency funding of 2.9bn reais ($892m) to ensure financing for public services.

The Olympics also will play out with a backdrop of political instability as Brazil’s senate tries suspended president Dilma Rousseff, who is accused of accounting tricks in the government budget, to determine whether she will be ousted for good. The trial is expected to finish after the Games.

The state in recent months, even as it races to complete a new subway line and other key pieces of infrastructure promised for the Olympics, has missed crucial debt payments and has been forced to postpone purchasing and salary payments for everyone from public health workers to police.

Rio’s acting governor, Francisco Dornelles, earlier this month declared a financial emergency in the state because of budget shortfalls caused by a recession, plummeting oil revenues and a run-up in public expenditures in recent years.

He has fretted publicly that the Olympics could be “a big failure” if financing does not come through but Brazil’s federal government has said that it will.

Earlier this week, police and firemen demonstrated at Rio’s international airport, protesting their missed wages and greeting arriving passengers with a sign reading “Welcome to Hell”.

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  • stringer bell
    stringer bell Members Posts: 26,212 ✭✭✭✭✭
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W_zM7koJy8
    The 2016 Olympics are set to begin in just over a month in Rio de Janeiro. As the city prepares to receive an influx of international visitors, it is building new infrastructure and transportation systems to accommodate the surge. But the city is also undergoing another major project: hiding and removing poor people from view of foreign onlookers. I went to Rio to see how the city is transforming to make way for the Olympics
  • JokerzWyld
    JokerzWyld Members Posts: 5,483 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wow, they really hate Brazil
  • tompetrez3
    tompetrez3 Members Posts: 6,669 ✭✭✭✭✭
    from the wise words of Fat Trel: "WEN YU ? 2 ANUVA ? CITY...CHECK IN"

  • silverfoxx
    silverfoxx Guests, Members, Writer, Content Producer Posts: 11,704 ✭✭✭✭✭
    tompetrez3 wrote: »
    from the wise words of Fat Trel: "WEN YU ? 2 ANUVA ? CITY...CHECK IN"

    Gotta fix that word "come" champ.
  • bgoat
    bgoat Members Posts: 4,339 ✭✭✭✭✭
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W_zM7koJy8
    The 2016 Olympics are set to begin in just over a month in Rio de Janeiro. As the city prepares to receive an influx of international visitors, it is building new infrastructure and transportation systems to accommodate the surge. But the city is also undergoing another major project: hiding and removing poor people from view of foreign onlookers. I went to Rio to see how the city is transforming to make way for the Olympics

    Sounds like the USA to me.
  • Stew
    Stew Members, Moderators, Writer Posts: 52,234 Regulator
    edited June 2016
    Don't feel so bad about not investing in this Olympic trip like I wanted to now.
  • Lou Cypher
    Lou Cypher Members Posts: 52,521 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Heard the police and firefighters and other professions were on strike due to not getting paid.
  • Lou Cypher
    Lou Cypher Members Posts: 52,521 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Kid i went to highschool and played football with is going to the olympics for Shotput/Discus throwing. When we were in 8th grade this guy had a full beard and was 6'4". Kids younger than me too.
  • Arya Tsaddiq
    Arya Tsaddiq Members Posts: 15,334 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Lou_Cypher wrote: »
    Kid i went to highschool and played football with is going to the olympics for Shotput/Discus throwing. When we were in 8th grade this guy had a full beard and was 6'4". Kids younger than me too.

    Is he Polynesian?
  • ThaNubianGod
    ThaNubianGod Members Posts: 1,862 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sorry, but I have zero sympathy for Brazil. They had a nice economy and turned it over to Dilma Rousseff and the Worker's Party. People love the nonsense spewed by these liberal socialist, but once they get in office.....? spirals down. We saw this in Greece, we saw this in Venezuela, we see this in Brazil. I would say thank ? Bernie Sanders is nowhere near the presidency with his idiocy, but then we still have Hillary running.

    So Brazil votes these clowns in, they give out these insane pensions(can relate out here in California whee Jerry brown did the same dumb thing decades ago which is why our economy is ? ). And they actually gave tax-breaks, but to "favoured" industries of theirs, lol. Mass corruption everywhere.
  • nex gin
    nex gin Members Posts: 10,698 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Dead bodies wash up everyday b
  • StillFaggyAF
    StillFaggyAF Members Posts: 40,358 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sorry, but I have zero sympathy for Brazil. They had a nice economy and turned it over to Dilma Rousseff and the Worker's Party. People love the nonsense spewed by these liberal socialist, but once they get in office.....? spirals down. We saw this in Greece, we saw this in Venezuela, we see this in Brazil. I would say thank ? Bernie Sanders is nowhere near the presidency with his idiocy, but then we still have Hillary running.

    So Brazil votes these clowns in, they give out these insane pensions(can relate out here in California whee Jerry brown did the same dumb thing decades ago which is why our economy is ? ). And they actually gave tax-breaks, but to "favoured" industries of theirs, lol. Mass corruption everywhere.

    Well one positive is affirmative action policies of the workers party that lifted many blacks out of poverty
  • VIBE
    VIBE Members Posts: 54,384 ✭✭✭✭✭
    where's DoU w his prophecies and ?
  • Lou Cypher
    Lou Cypher Members Posts: 52,521 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Lou_Cypher wrote: »
    Kid i went to highschool and played football with is going to the olympics for Shotput/Discus throwing. When we were in 8th grade this guy had a full beard and was 6'4". Kids younger than me too.

    Is he Polynesian?

    Nah hes a white freak of nature. Name is Jordan Clarke.
  • Young Stef
    Young Stef Members Posts: 1,447 ✭✭✭✭✭
    @Lou_Cypher Police & firefighters greeted visitors at the airport wit a big ass sign that said Welcome To Hell joint looked like an enthusiastic kindergarten creation. It alluded to what @ThaNubianGod already posted.
  • Young Stef
    Young Stef Members Posts: 1,447 ✭✭✭✭✭
    @Lou_Cypher Didn't read the article but it made the front page of Yahoo News.
  • Cabana_Da_Don
    Cabana_Da_Don Members Posts: 7,992 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Who cares it's RIO ? NOT DISNEY.? IS STILL ONE OF THE HOTTEST SPOT IN THE WORLD.
  • DoUwant2go2Heaven
    DoUwant2go2Heaven Members Posts: 10,425 ✭✭✭✭✭
    VIBE wrote: »
    where's DoU w his prophecies and ?

    I'll be back in Rio the 2nd weekend of the Olympics. ? has an assignment for me down there. Nothing to be scared of when ? is on your side!

    "The wicked run away when no one is chasing them, but the godly are as bold as lions." Proverbs 28:1

    Hallelujah!
  • trilladelic
    trilladelic Members Posts: 4,457 ✭✭✭✭✭
    VIBE wrote: »
    where's DoU w his prophecies and ?

    I'll be back in Rio the 2nd weekend of the Olympics. ? has an assignment for me down there. Nothing to be scared of when a gun is on your side!

    "The wicked run away when no one is chasing them, but the godly are as bold as lions." Proverbs 28:1

    Hallelujah!

    Fixed..

    Godspeed my niqqa, no theist..
  • Splackavelli
    Splackavelli Members Posts: 18,806 ✭✭✭✭✭
    nex gin wrote: »
    Dead bodies wash up everyday b

    Y'know that ? is starting to get lame
  • DoUwant2go2Heaven
    DoUwant2go2Heaven Members Posts: 10,425 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The weapons I use to fight with are not made by humans. Rather, they are powerful weapons from ? . Therefore I stand on the Rock and I can't be moved! For even if my earthly tabernacle is dissolved, I have a eternal dwelling reserved in heaven for me in which I will be clothed with glory for all eternity! For its not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, saith the Lord of Hosts!

    Amen.