2016 Olympics: What Rio doesn’t want the world to see 

This is basically when your mom tells you to clean your room but instead of actually cleaning you just shove everything in the closet and call it clean

3 years later, the stadium's abandoned, the park's gone to waste, and the shiny new housings are neglected. So all the money was literally thrown down the drain.

People: *poverty* *starving* *malnutrition* *poor housing* *diseases* Politician: we’re concern about your ears we’ll build barrier to reduce traffic noise for you.

Welcome to Brazil, a country where our government want to hide the poor side instead of helping it to get better.

And now, two years later the olympic park lies empty, deserted and in disrepair. The public parks that were built are fenced off, the athletes towers are empty and the stadiums are boarded up.

"What Rio doesnt want to see" *6.9M views*

I went to Rio the September before the games and remember seeing all the construction. I was in a taxi and made small talk with the driver as we passed by volleyball stadiums that were being worked on. I said you must be so excited for the games and he explained how it’s a very bad thing for Rio. I didn’t realize until that conversation and everything he said ended up being accurate

building a wall instead of actually helping the people? sounds weirdly familiar doesn’t it

It's like having bad parents who act like good guys when other people are around Edit: Jesus didn’t know so many people got dunked on by their parents

Brazil should stop acting like it's a first world country and focus on what really matters.

I am Brazilian and I live in Rio de Janeiro. I live in the Rocinha slum. The only thing that me and my wife want is to be able to leave this country. Life here gets worse and worse every day. Even studying we do not get a job. Food is getting more and more expensive! People increasingly ignorant! People are attacking each other because of politicians.

can the Brazilian government stop being a failure FOR 5 MINUTES?!

Streisand effect- The harder you try to hide something the more obvious it becomes.

"Poor people don't exist if we can't see them"

I feel like we can compare Rio to the one cool kid in school who has a bunch of problems but just covers them up with cool clothes and money.

So in summary, Vox is *literally* the guy who said: "I'm gonna end this guy's whole career"

I'm from the state of Rio de Janeiro - whose capital is the city of Rio - and our governor has recently asked the people to stop saying bad things about the state and the city on the internet. Instead he is advising us to post pictures of the beautiful parts of the city and say positive things to attract tourism. This is how bad our political class, our social justice, our public health and education are. So bad the government has to ask the people to stop spreading the news worldwide.

Brazilian Goverment: Phew. Now there is no chance the tourists will see the true pover- Vox: *N O*

The lesson of this video: Don’t always believe in what you see.

5 years later... *2021 Olympics: What Tokyo doesn't want the world to see*

and now look at the Olympic park, used once , abandoned and useless forever

This is why I love Vox. Way better than Buzzfeed pathetic attempts of journalism.

who got reccomended this 5 years later during the tokyo olympics

This is heartbreaking, we need to see more of this in the news, not Kim Kardashian's latest surgery. Hopefully the Brazillian government will see what they are doing wrong soon.

You should do a 2019 update of Rio now that the Olympics have passed. What is it like there now?

the irony is that almost all of the olympic park in brazil is completely abandoned.

looking back at this, what really angers me (as a Greek, too) is how the Olympics have been completely transformed from something that merely had to do with sports to something that's directly linked to money, influence and an area's appearance. I adore Rio. I feel like it could even be my second home, if I ever chose to move out of my country. And it disgusts me how the country's own government doesn't care. That's nothing new, really; most countries worldwide favor money over actually helping their people but, in this case, they have enough audacity to disregard Brazilians so... obviously.

It’s really quite sad, they’re embarrassed of the people who live in their country

i have no idea why the olympic committee thought this was a good idea

it's like when people know you are poor but you still trying to wear branded-clothes

"The city is worried for the ears of the poor people who have no food in their stomache" that's a great way to put it.

Nobody: The RU-vid algorithm 4 years after that event: I'm about to end Rio's whole career

Airplanes: I’m about to end this city’s whole career

I'm brazilian and this is 100% accurate. DON'T COME TO BRAZIL, Rio is the biggest shithole here. Completely crime-ridden

City of God perfectly demonstrates the life in that part of the city. Everyone should see that film.

This is why the London olympics were built on their legacy. They destroyed homes and a business park to build but made the stadiums and parks so that they could change them into something efficient after the games

I remember an episode of the Simpsons where they went to Brazil and they got accused and even threatened to sue by the local politicians for portraying Rio negatively by highlighting poverty crime and corruption. Since the Olympics it's amazing how much of this was found to be true.

brazil has waaaaay too many problems to host something like the olympics

The real rio is THE PEOPLE AND CULTURE not the houses and looks from the "nice stuff they are replacing the old houses and places with"

Poor people: exist Rio: They dont

Thank you for reminding me again why I subscribed to this channel :)

As a Brazilian I'm gonna tell you guys the truth, Rio is one of the most beautiful places in Brazil, however is one of the most dangerous too, Rio's police is the most violent *in the world* , a lot of hospitals were forgiven because of this stupid Olympics, don't even ask me about the world cup. I'm from São paulo, I love Brazil in all aspects, but the corrupt government of this country is letting Brazil into a hole. Sometime ago the brazilian people got FURIOUS, then the truckers from all the country stopped working, the country went into a caos, the markets were running out of supplies, animals from farms were dieing without food, all the prices were getting so high, president was trying to do a lot of deals, the gasoline prices increased from R$3,60 to R$4,80 (sometimes even R$5,00 a liter). As I said, I hate this country's government, and if it doesn't get better I'll get the f*ck out of this place.

things like this make me appreciate that I have the privilege to live in a safe, developed, low corruption country

In our country India🇮🇳 situation is worse than this. Redevelopment projects are the need of the hour. But eventually gets neglected.

Its like when you sweep the floor and your put it under the rug. ;-;

The sad thing is, everyone in Rio knows, everyone in Brazil knows, and the world. But the thing is, just get worst.

“Ha ha ho ho lets pretend poor people don’t exist.” “Wait they found out?” “sHHHII-“

1:47 sad facts: this Olympic park once was a F1 track which Nelson Piquet won his home race with Aryton Senna in 2nd the track was demolished in mid 2012 to build an Olympic park.

Oh boy. You should also see what the Chinese government did in preparation for the Beijing Olympics in 2008. Heartbreaking as well.

After the games, this park will be like so many other Olympic Parks, empty and useless. Why can't we just have one location for the Summer and Winter Olympics, and keep it maintained. Most of the structures they build never get used again. It's just senseless to me.

5:52 to 5:55 Good job government You made it even worse Slums/poor housing may be bad But destroyed house are worse

I love the internet, It’s a great medium and way of exposing corrupted people who feed their self interests and their agendas at the expense of others.

lmao why even choose Rio for the olympics

This is what the main stream media doesn't show.

Not many people know this but India also did something like this when it hosted the 2010 Commonwealth Games.

I feel ashamed knowing that my country has to do this in order to show only the "good" side of Brazil, treating the poor like this is just wrong.

Events like these leave cities crippled and with facilities they have nothing to do with

This is about to be the worst Olympics ever

As a Brazilian, I can say this is very accurate for São Paulo.

its like when you're cleaning your room and just push everything under your bed

It's not just in Rio. all around Brazil there are large areas of land populated by the poor which we call the "favelas" after moving to Canada I really started to miss my hometown in Brazil I remembered it being beautiful, but after a family visit I never want to live there again. it's sickening how far the Brazilian government ignores the poor. I guess that's what corruption does to a country

Well, I'm Brazilian and I need to say, this problem isn't restrictred to Rio. We're currently in a political and economic crisis, because our governors are focusing on making more money to them, leaving the population apart. Brazil looks like a beautiful country with nice people living in it, but believe me, it's not only that. Oh, and violence is just growing up, I mean, A LOT.

This is basically having the craziest party known to man, and then trying to clean the whole mess in less than 10 minutes

The same in India. 23000 crores spents on infrastructure, and ZERO on healthcare

Rich get richer. Poor get poorer. It's so sad that it's that way.

> "2016 Olympics: What Rio doesn’t want the world to see" _Correction_ 2016 Olympics: What Rio's *POLITICIANS* doesn’t want the world to see

Thing is, third world countries are so sick of being irrelevant and called poor, they turn to doing things like this to earn a shred of respect from the rest of the world

Why is this in my recommended 4 years later

didn't this just happen with the world cup two years ago?

Wow! Unbelievable, but this is the world we live in.

5:21 is where we get the best hans-zimmer like music on this planet, and it's amazing the music helps to make vox be great. Thanks Johnny

I bingewatched this channel the whole day!😁

China did the same during the Beijing Olympics.

The worst thing youll ever experience in your homeland is to be treated as an alien or worst a garbage to be disposed. And we know that it happens in almost every country. 💔

"What Rio doesn’t want the world to see" 8.7 Million people : *Interesting*

Its like those giant minecraft builds that look great but when you walk inside its a giant box

Welcome to Hell de Janeiro, tourists. Don't get your hopes high.

I live in Rio, in the south zone (I am white and speak english) and have two problems with this video 1st: The mayor and governor aren't cleaning the city up ONLY because there is international attention, there has been an underlying sentiment among the elites that the south zone, barra and downtown were getting to many settlements and there was starting to be too much crime and poverty in those areas, which leaves me to point number 2: Gentrification against those settlements isn't necessairily a bad thing. There is great real estate next to beaches that could have nice, affluent buildings built, however these ILLEGAL settlers have created HUGE (there are some with 100 thousand+) that are centers of crime, drug trafficing and violence, therefore it doesn't seem that wrong that the poliece remove these people from inhabiting this land that many times were supposed to be natural reserves or simply isn't theirs. Just a thought from a real person from Rio for you to think about

Love these videos, wish they could be longer and in more detail

This is literally everything the foreign media shows about Brazil, in fact it is extremely exaggerated and nothing was hidden

Rio doesnt want the world to know about this. Well guess what Rio. Vox just let the world know.

reminds me of that one simpsons episode about rio. They got a lot of backlash about it from the gov saying it's a "stereotype." Now i see they were mad that the cartoon was showing the real side. Not just the glamour side we always see on tv

What rio doesn't want the world to see 1/1000 of the world watched this video

So what's new? It's the same everywhere in the world. Everywhere

Who got this 3 years later after the olympics in their recommendation

Well of course they put up a wall. If I had 10 seconds till my girlfriend came in my room I'd shove everything in my closet. Same thing here.

Brazil: We donot want the world to see it! Vox: oh yeah , you really wanna do this!

I didn't understand this 4 years ago. But now I completely understand because this is similar to what is happening in some parts of my country the Philippines.

Great map in Mw2.

This made me think of Michael Jackson's music video 'they don't really care about us' the one where he's running through Brazil.

Heartbreaking to say the least. Thank you for showing us what’s truly going on in these foreign countries.

8:23 that gave me some mw2 vibes

Stay honest vox, we proud of you

Brazil is not a Paradise... but we advertise it as one so we can continue to get Foreigner money. Brazil is slowling turning into a Giant Tourist Trap, while millions suffer.

I feel really bad for those poor people, their govenment should spend money to help poor rather than building wall around them

Sou carioca moro perto do parque olímpico da Barra e me dá uma tristeza enorme ver todas aquelas arenas nem serem usadas direito.

I want to see the "nicer" houses the government built for those people refusing to move.

so they spend money on a wall that can pay food d for 1 week

Exactly what Modi didn't want his best friend, Dolaand Trump to see

Rio: Vox: lemme destroy this guys career