Rio's disaster is an extreme version of what happens to Olympic host cities (thenation.com)

> Brazil is an incredibly unequal society, with oligarchical elites who disdain the poor, mourn for a lost military dictatorship, and don’t particularly care for democracy (all attractive traits to the IOC when looking for an Olympic host city)

Well, how's that news. All societies have some inequality and "oligarchical elites who disdain the poor."