'People are getting poorer': hunger and homelessness as Brazil crisis deepens
Unemployment and social instability threaten unwelcome return to the past in recession-hit country once seen as a model for developing economies
Dom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
@domphillips
Wednesday 19 July 2017 09.02 EDT
It wasn’t yet 5am when Miriam Gomes drove up to Happy Little Angel, the social project she runs in the scruffy Cidade Nova neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro, but the queue for her weekly food handout was already a hundred yards long.
Some had slept outside – those among Rio’s growing army of homeless people, or who lived too far away to get there by 6.30am, when those registered could start collecting a bag of vegetables, fruit, rice, beans, pasta, milk and biscuits, and a little chocolate.
These are some of the victims of a worsening problem in a country once praised for reducing poverty, but where the numbers of poor are climbing again.
Brazil has slumped into its worst recession for decades, with 14 million people unemployed.
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any flow of information people wanting to learn more could find with effort about what's happening in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Paraguay, Central America, etc.
They kept changing the laws so it became easier for the fascist oligarch owners to eat up smaller papers, and dictate all the "news" leaving the countries to conform with right-wing corporatists' schemes elsewhere.
Of course, they want to silence the internet, as well.
I think they are all going to be surprised with the history still ahead, as they learn they really can't control all the people in the world, no matter how much money they have, how many puppet politicians they own, and how many weapons and soldiers they can command.
Needless to say, we haven't heard a squeak about the things you've mentioned, as the right-wing would never print that stuff.
Nice to see you! 