Brazil’s Political And Health Crises May Disrupt Olympic Games

With less than 100 days to the Rio 2016 Olympics, crises still looms in Brazil despite their continuous preparation to host the world's sport's greatest showpiece. If the state of a host nation is to be discussed as part of agenda in the opening ceremony of the Olympic games, then Brazil as a nation will make athletes lose concentration on the aim of their visit to Rio.

The incumbent president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff has been accused to have manipulated government's economic figures prior to the 2014's election. An impeachment process has been moved to that effect, but she has described this as a "coup" she will fight to the last. A s each day passes, it yet to be ascertained who will be seated as the President of Brazil come August 5, when the opening ceremony will take place. Aside the presidential impeachment saga, another corruption scandal involving a partly state-owned oil giant petrbras since last year have also been linked with the Olympic infrastructure projects. Worse still, Brazil is in its worst recession since the 1930s based on facts available. According to data released by government at the start of April, it showed industrial output down by 9% year-on-year. The World Bank says the shrinking of Brazil's economy by 3.8% last year represents its worst performance since 1981. In fact, about 220,000 members of the Brazilian military who were deployed during the time of the Rio carnival met another battle entirely: The battle of Zika virus. Since the World Health Organization declared Zika a global public health emergency three months ago. The virus has been shown to cause microcephaly in babies and is linked to some cases of muscle-weakening disease Guillain-Barré syndrome in adults.