We are just few days before the start of the 2016 Olympic Games to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. While the Olympics are usually a time of celebration, this year's Games have generated a bit of controversy. Things to Rio ... well, let's just say they might be better at this point.
Here are some pictures that illustrate what happens there.
1. This is a package of cocaine recently taken over by Brazilian police with the Olympic logo on it.
W Rio można kupić już z olimpijskim koks logo (fot HO / POLICIA CIVIL / AFP). Pic.twitter.com/kMW3eaFS2u
— Michał Koper (@ michalkoper77) On July 28, 2016
2. This seems like a body wrapped in a bag sleeping. It was found in an irrigation canal in the city
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3. Garbage, garbage everywhere.
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4. the burning of waste right next to a main road through Rio.
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5. floating pollution in Guanabara Bay, which is where the sailing events of the Olympic Games are scheduled to take place.
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6. Here an overview of a fish die-off happened in Guanabara Bay in February.
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7. More pollution of waterways.
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8. Here that the Guanabara Bay is like when you go out on it.
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9. Police in Brazil are also notoriously brutal. Last year, the Rio police were only responsible for one in five murders.
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10. The Brazil is still struggling with a political crisis resulting from unprecedented corruption case involving the country's president Dilma Rousseff.
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11. Without And, of course, that the spectrum of Zika virus is suspended on all of the Olympic event.
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12. Ah yes, and did you know that they killed a jaguar when the Olympic flame ceremony? It was released as part of the ceremony near Manaus, Brazil, but was shot dead by a soldier when he became too close for comfort.
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While the Games will certainly go as expected in a few days, I think it will not be exactly a smooth process. I guess time will tell ...

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