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Strikes in Rio: anything goes

Distrust reigns in run-up to Brazil’s World Cup, showcase for protests Perhaps the only group of workers who are sure not to strike here in the coming days are Rio’s trash collectors. During this past Carnival, with torrential rain in the offing, they … Continue reading

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Rio protests: the city begins to dialogue; the state gets more defensive

Rio’s mayor, Eduardo Paes, is coming to be known as “Paes volta atrás“, or a backtracking kind of guy. The governor, Sérgio Cabral, has taken a different tack, digging in his heels. Just how effective their approaches are, in the … Continue reading

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Rio protest : part of a growing and important shift

The demonstrations, across Brazil and even carried out by Brazilians abroad, are really about inequality and injustice — the foundations of corruption and impunity. The parrot José –a puppet sidekick– said almost nothing for the first hour of Ana Maria … Continue reading

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