The Olympics are heading to South America for the first time ever. The International Olympic Committee announced today that Rio de Janeiro, Brazil will host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games, an announcement which moved President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to tears.
“Our hour has arrived,” said Lula da Silva.
Rio was able to beat out Madrid, Spain in the final round after Chicago, Illinois and Tokyo and Japan were eliminated earlier in the day.
The city is ahead of schedule, as it has already built more than half of the Olympic venues. The Summer Olympics will be held in Rio from August 5-21 with its theme being, “Live your passion.”
Brazilian police are investigating a local television show host for several murders they believe he orchestrated to boost his ratings.
State legislator Wallace Souza, who is the host of Brazil’s popular crime show Canal Livre, has been implicated in at least five murders by authorities who believe he’s had the foreknowledge of the crimes and knowingly would be the first one at the scene of the crime with his camera crew to record graphic images of victims for television. Police have also accused the showman of trafficking drugs.
Souza vehemently denies the criminal allegations, saying that that he and his son are the pawns in a conspiracy by his political enemies and drug dealers that want to rid themselves of his two decades worth of relentless crime coverage and legislative investigations.
Souza faces charges of drug trafficking, gang formation and weapons possession, although he has not been charged with homicide, yet. His son, Rafael , has been jailed on charges of homicide, drug trafficking and illegal gun possession. Canal Livre has been taken off the air indefinitely.
The bodies of passengers aboard the Air France airplane which fell from the skies over the Atlantic Ocean have begun to rise to the sea’s surface as Brazilian authorities continue to search the area they believe the plane crashed.
According to the Associated Press, six bodies have been retrieved since the ill-fated Flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashed last Saturday with 228 people on board. Officials suspect that inconsistent airspeed readings by external instruments during sever thunderstorms lead to the tragedy.
Brazilian Air Force Col. Henry Munhoz refuse to reveal how far apart the bodies had been found, and left it to French authorities to comment on the possibility that the locations of the bodies could help determine whether the plane broke up in the air. All 228 persons on board are presumed dead.
