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Ryan Lochte Is One of Many Privileged First-World Tourists—and Brazilians Are Fed Up | The Nation https://lamatriz.org/url/251393
"[..] I also know that, while the Olympics are unpopular, they are also, somewhat paradoxically, stoking Brazilian nationalism. There is a great deal of pride in Brazil’s Olympic heroes, especially when they triumph over the United States and Europe. The historical relationship between the Global North and Brazil has been one of conquest and plunder. These Olympics are seen as yet another chapter in that history.[..] "