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That transportation in Brazil is a huge chaos - as well as almost all public services in the country - isn't a new, but there's a problem more frequent in the city of Rio de Janeiro: the infrastructure for wheelchair users in bus. At first glance, you may think that there are no wheelchair lifts in buses, but they do exist. The problem is a lack of maintenance, a fact that the city of Rio de Janeiro has had to face, even during the Olympics. Faced with the financial crisis through which the state and municipal governments cross, the authorities say they have insufficient funds to make preventive and corrective repairs to equipments. Without having how to solve this misfortune, disabled people need to rely with the solidarity of drivers and passengers to get on the bus and to overcome the bureaucracy that is to be poor in Brazil. When they do not find anyone in solidarity, the solution is to try to embark alone, in an embarrassing situation that mixes shame and so...

Afternoon of Sol, city of Rio de Janeiro. A woman decides to go into a restaurant for a meal and doesn't imagine that a terrible thing is waiting for her. The place, a popular restaurant known for its precarious service and poor cleaning. Even so, the woman decides to enter the place and try to eat something before arriving at home. She sits down on a chair and one of the waiters notes the request. After almost 30 minutes, the woman becomes impatient equal the other clients of the place and decides to complain. When she was reporting his problem to one of the waiters, the man began to ignores her as if she were nothing. The woman screams at him and suddenly receives several cowardly strokes. The manager interrupted the fight and a client called the police, who a few minutes later arrived at the local and the case was resolved at the police station.

While Rio de Janeiro breathe the Olympic Games, it seems that not every resident of Rio has been taken by the spirit of the Olympics. One example was the Brazilian Juliana Lima, who gave a testimony in her account of Facebook and eventually became the target of criticism, jokes and compliments. According to the post of Juliana, a foreigner with a shirt printed with the US flag, approached her asking, in English, how to arrive at the Botafogo subway station. She  continued the dialogue in Portuguese and he asked if she couldn't speak English. Juliana replied that "dominated" the language, but the correct was speak in Portuguese, because they were in Rio de Janeiro. Quickly, Juliana's post became a phenomenon in Facebook (and, of course, in Twitter). The main criticism for the girl's reaction was the fact that English is usually the exhaust for any tourist anywhere in the world where there isn't known the local language. Even the Brazilians when vis...

Journalists and Chinese athletes stayed stuck among a shooting on the morning of Thursday, as they passed by the Yellow Line, two kilometers from the Tom Jobim International Airport. Four armed men shot at a military police vehicle. According to information from the 21th Police Department (in the Bonsucesso neighborhood), one of the shots hit the bus door, but no one was injured. Through Twitter, the portal " Global Times " published photos that were taken at the time of exchange of fire. Street vendors selling goods on the road lay on the ground to try to protect the shots. Journalists and athletes were heading to the village of Athletes in separate buses. The Civil Police reported that there's no reference in the record of casualties or involvement of Olympic delegation.

External view of the building where the assault occurred A officer of a security company that provide services in the Velodrome of the Olympic Park in Rio de Janeiro, was arrested for sexual assault on a woman. This was reported by Corriere dello Sport . If it is found guilty of sexual assault, he'll to fulfill two to six years in prison. Between 85,000  police and soldiers have been mobilized to ensure security during the Olympic Games (5-21 August).

Car where the New Zealand's tourist was held hostage The Military Police (PM) arrested two military police officers who kidnapped and extorted the New Zealand's fighter jiu-jitsu, Jason Lee. The crime happened last Saturday (July 23), in Duque de Caxias, in the metropolitan area of ​​Rio de Janeiro, when the athlete was returning from a competition. According to the advisory press of the corporation, the case is being determined and if any misconduct proved, the two cops will be subject to administrative disciplinary proceedings and may be expelled. The PM said that "does not tolerate misconduct and acts like this sadden the nearly 50,000 honest police officers fighting crime every day," the statement said. Through its social network, Jason said officers approached him and threatened him with arrest if he didn't get in the police car. The New Zealander, who lives ten months in Rio, also said that the police took him to ATMs, for him to take m...

A man took out all the clothes after being stopped by a security guard, when he tried entering a bank branch in Foz do Iguaçu, city of south Brasil. The event was recorded by a video made with a mobile phone and spread on the Internet this week. In a statement, the press office of the Itaú-Unibanco, reported that the security guard was away. Check out the video below: In the pictures, the man appears quite angry and already naked at the door of Banco Itaú of the Vila Portes neighborhood. You can hear him complaining to the security. "It's over? You didn't say to take your clothes off, man? You told undressing to enter.  I'm not a kid, no. I'm not a child. Yeah your voice there, man. I haven't shame of undressing, no. You disrespected me, citizen. I'm a serious guy", he says while others support it attitude. The sequence does not show whether the customer entered the agency later.

The bomb squad of the Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro was called due to a suspicious bag in the neighborhood of Leblon, a prime area of the city, said the police. The suitcase was abandoned by a man on a busy street in the neighborhood, according witnesses. The man ran off soon after. The area has been isolated and squad experts removed the suspicious bag from the place. The area where the bag was dropped is surrounded by residential and commercial buildings, as well as schools and cinemas.

A 27-year-old man was arrested in Maracaju, a city in Mato Grosso do Sul on Sunday (26), after trying to put out the Olympic torch with a bucket of water. According to the delegate Amylcar Eduardo Romero, the incident occurred around 11:25 am (on local time). "The principle would be a joke promoted by the suspect and his friends, and who had been released by Facebook," said the officer. The police found no political motivation for the act, only intention of public disorder. "He played a great amount of water in the athlete who was carrying the torch. As he was far away, he failed to erase the flame, "Romero said. The delegate explained that the young man was apprehended in the act and will respond in freedom. He paid BRL 1,000 bail. The case was registered as qualified damage to society. The penalty for this crime is six months to three years.

Two olympic athletes and their coach were robbed, on Friday morning in Santa Teresa, in the Central Zone of Rio de Janeiro. The spanish sailing team composed by Fernando Echávarri Erasun and Tara Pacheco were with the coach, Santiago Lopez Vazquez, in Hermenegildo de Barros street, when they were approached by five assailants. The thieves - who used at least two firearms - took the money, a bag with documents and a digital camera. Missing 76 days of the start of the 2016 Olympic Games, athletes are already in Rio to prepare for the tests. On 27 April, the duo Tara, 27, and Fernando, 46, won the silver medal in the Nacra 17 mode, during the Sailing World Cup, in step in Hyères, France. In 2008, the athletes won a gold medal at the Beijing Olympics.

A man who tried to rob a gas station on Sunday morning (8), in São João de Meriti, city of Rio de Janeiro state. He had the body burned after throwing alcohol (etanol) on him by an employee, who reacted to the assault. Luís Romário Fernandes had 87% of the burned body. He was on probation after being arrested for crimes such as drug trafficking and theft. According to experts, his body began to catch fire after he made the shot. The spark did the alcohol burn. All the action lasted less than two minutes. The owner of the gas station says that the clerk handed the money in his pocket: BRL 40. The bandit threatened him. "If you don't give me the rest, I'll out of the car, You'll suffer," according to Lecir Gouvêa do Amaral, owner of the store. After this, the attendant returned and threw alcohol on Luís Romário, who shot, missing the target. Then, the flames have taken account of the car and of your body.

People awaiting care at a public hospital in Rio de Janeiro The financial crisis of the State of Rio de Janeiro, paralyzed hospitals and reaches different sectors of the administration of governor Luiz Fernando Pezão. "The Rio de Janeiro is broken, bankrupt," said the doctor Jorge Darze, president of Sinmed/RJ (Syndicate of Doctors of Rio de Janeiro). The syndicate of doctors and other government agencies that are responsible for oversee the actions of the governor and the mayor of Rio de Janeiro, formed a crisis cabinet to monitor the situation. The group wants an audit of accounts to find out, after all, why the state coffers are empty. In practice, they should be experiencing other reasons to justify what is happening today. At the same time, the subway extension works continue, new parks were built  and overpriced works of the Olympics are far from being finalized. The conclusion is that the money which should be allocated to health, was used in infrastructur...

Passenger waiting for help after derailments Few months before of the Olympic Games, the city of Rio de Janeiro faces several problems. Unfinished works of the subway, congestion in the main avenues of the city, assault waves on the beaches and constant police actions in the poorest neighborhoods. But one issue stands out: the constant accidents in the rail system of Rio de Janeiro. Daily circulating more than 1 million people in the subway and metropolitan trains that serve the city. Happen frequent derailments, failure in air conditioning systems, power outage and inadvertent locking of the doors, which has left passengers locked in a composition. Rescue of passenger after train accident Companies who administer this system, the MetrôRio and SuperVia received six fines, the latter for operation failing. Together, the punishment amounted to BRL 499,118.99. Only to the concessionaire responsible for the trains, received four penalties of the state government. In addition...