re: After much feijoada, Rio residents make poopoo in sea and give people infections

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Rio organizers are scaling down everywhere to eliminate about $500 million to balance the operating budget of $1.85 billion.

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that's 27% of the operational budget cut a week ago

Plus they are downsizing everything, no TVs in the rooms in the Olympic Village, athletes might have to pay if they want A/C in their rooms.

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Brazil was booming when it was awarded the games in 2009. Now it's buffeted by the worst recession since the 1930s. The currency has plunged almost 50 percent against the dollar, and inflation is over 10 percent and rising. In addition, President Dilma Rousseff is facing impeachment, partly driven by a billion-dollar bribery scandal at state-run oil company Petrobras.

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But they are honest-

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Cuts aside, Rio is facing other problems:
Ticket sales are lagging. Only about half of the 4.5 million domestic tickets have been sold. Rio organizers say Brazilians do everything at the last minute.

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