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Rio de Janeiro— Fireworks explode over Maracanã Stadium, with the Mangueira favela community in the foreground, during the opening ceremony for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games on August 5. The games have been plagued by problems, from delays and corruption in construction to the Zika virus. On the first day of the competition, fans were kept waiting for hours at security checkpoints, and a string of violent criminal incidents kept visitors on edge. The opening ceremony was relatively simple compared with its predecessors, perhaps a reflection of Brazil’s economic crisis, which has left some in Rio’s poor neighborhoods questioning the massive spending on the games.