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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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