Two months before the Olympics, the world is eyeing the sewage off Rio de Janeiro with both alarm and black humor: marathon swimmers say they are afraid of getting sick while Saturday Night Live has depicted President Dilma Rousseff saying blithely that Brazil just needs to “take 1 million poo-poos out of the river.”
But for the new government of President Michel Temer, which has taken over while Rousseff faces an impeachment trial, the sludge represents an opportunity: to press for privatization in a state-heavy economy.
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