Download 4K
Download 4K
Download 4K
Download HD
Download HD
Download HDSeason
Season 6 Episode
- Season 2 The Afghan Money Pit & the Pacification of Rio
- Season 2 Greenland Is Melting & Bonded Labor
- Season 2 American Scrap & Children of the Drones
- Season 2 A Syria of Their Own & White Gold
- Season 2 Terrorist University & Armageddon Now
- Season 2 Rocky Mountain High & North Korean Defectors
- Season 2 The Pink Gang Rebellion & Genetic Passport
- Season 2 The Resource Curse & Deliver Us from Drought
- Season 2 Crude Awakening & The Enemy of My Enemy
- Season 2 Playing with Nuclear Fire & No Man Left Behind
- Season 2 Heroin Warfare & The Coldest War
- Season 2 Surveillance City & The Forgotten War
VICE - Season 2 Episode 1 The Afghan Money Pit & the Pacification of Rio
6.90 30 minutes The U.S. has spent nearly $100 billion on reconstruction projects in Afghanistan, the most spent on any country in history. But John Sopko, special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, has found that much of that money has been wasted and misused, and has even fallen into the hands of the Taliban. Shane Smith heads to Afghanistan for a tour of American taxpayer dollars gone down the drain.
Rio de Janeiro is working hard to remedy its reputation as a drug and murder capital in time for the upcoming World Cup and Olympics. The Special Police Operations Battalion (BOPE) has been charged with pacifying the slums (favelas), but BOPE's military occupation of increasing numbers of favelas has been criticized as heavy-handed. Some corrupt members of the BOPE, together with ex-police, have formed militia gangs of their own and are controlling many favelas by sinister means, openly extorting, torturing, killing and making criminals disappear. Still, there are hundreds of favelas, untouched by pacification, that remain under the control of drug gangs who act with complete impunity. Ben Anderson looks behind the picturesque façade of Rio's marketing campaign to reveal the dark underbelly of the city.
