This photo perfectly sums up why Brazilians are furious about the Olympics
A man captured this image of a homeless woman sleeping below a promotional Olympics banner - and it's making Brazilian citizens on social media extremely angry.
The photo was taken by Felipe Barcellos, a local director, screenwriter, and professor, BuzzFeed reports. Barcellos noticed the woman when he was riding a bus, then stopped to photograph her.
The image struck a nerve because it's emblematic of Rio's disastrous preparations for the Olympic games. Major construction projects are still unfinished, local waters are teeming with drug-resistant bacteria, and entire neighborhoods have been razed to make way for new Olympics-related developments. Plus, the government is relocating homeless citizens in an effort to mask the country's poverty problem before athletes and spectators flood the city.
When a New York Times reporter visited Rio, she heard disturbing testimony of this practice:
In an interview with BuzzFeed, Barcellos said that the image "is an important part of the discussion on the supposed sustainable legacy of the Olympics."
Here's his original post: