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Brazil Says Goodbye To Olympics, Prepares Same For President Dilma.

Suspended Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, during the reading of her letter to the Brazilian people and senators, at Alvorada Palace in Brasilia, on August 16, 2016. The final phase of the impeachment process against Rousseff will begin in the Brazilian senate on August 25.  (Photo by ANDRESSA ANHOLETE/AFP/Getty Images)

Adeus or good riddance? That depends on who you ask.

Barring green pools, a phony police robbery, and an Olympic Committee official caught in a ticket scalping scandal that cost him his job, the summer Olympics went off largely without a hitch in Rio de Janeiro. 

The disaster themedia unanimously forecast never panned out. Athletes weren’t swarmed with zika vector mosquitoes, and Rio’s penchant for petty crime and theft wasn’t beyond the usual day-in-the-life in Brazil’s most iconic city.

Alas, the last fireworks have been fired. The star athletes are packed up and heading home. With that, the country is saying goodbye to an era. Two eras, to be exact. The era of Brazil hosting two massive world sporting events — FIFA World Cup soccer in 2014 and this year’s summer Olympics — and the era of the Workers’ Party that brought them there. This week marks the final act of president Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s first first lady president and the second sitting executive to be impeached since the end of the military dictatorship in 1985.

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