Even “The Girl From Ipanema” Can’t Save Rio’s Olympic Train
Why the Faltering Subway Line Exemplifies Brazil's Broken Promises
When the self-proclaimed greatest legacy infrastructure project of the Rio Olympics is a new metro line that stops eight miles short of the actual Olympic Park, you already know there’s a problem.
Yet there was the city’s mayor, the state’s governor, the national legislature’s leader, and the country’s interim president all at the metro’s inauguration—a half-year late, way over budget, and only a week before the opening ceremony for the 2016 Games.
Michel Temer, the interim president standing in while elected president Dilma Rousseff faces impeachment, had flown in just …
