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  • Three months after the Olympics, Rio de Janeiro is broke

    12/01/2016 4:11:16 PM PST · by SMGFan · 33 replies
    MSN PRI ^ | December 1, 2016
    Three months since the Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics, the “marvelous city,” as it’s known, is unraveling.  The state of Rio is broke. It hasn’t been able to pay its bills since long before the games. A federal bailout kept police on the streets and hospitals open while Olympics tourists were in town. But now the money has dried up, and public employees aren’t being paid.