Live from a restaurant kitchen somewhere in Petropolis, Brian Mier reports on what the Western media is missing about Brazil, Rio and the Olympic games - from the new illegal construction and commercial laws that made the games possible, to the continued nation-wide protests against the legislative coup that removed elected president Dilma Rousseff from power - and explains why, despite all the legal and economic bullshit, he was touched by the opening ceremonies.

Brian has been writing about Rio and the Olympics for Brasilwire for months now.