Corruption and Poverty in Rio Ahead of the 2016 Olympics

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 15, 2016

Juliana Barbassa, an award winning journalist, a former Rio de Janeiro Associated Press correspondent, a visiting researcher at the University of Zurich and author of Dancing with the Devil in the City of God: Rio de Janeiro and the Olympic Dream (Touchstone, 2015), talks about how Rio de Janeiro struggles with poverty and corruption on the brink of the 2016 Olympic Games.

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