Every year is the same thing. Brazil is known for its spectacular hot weather. But, from December to March, during the rainy season, it does rain almost every day in the Southeast portion of the country. Everybody knows that, including the authorities. They know, but they don’t care.
Every year lots of poor people die during the rainy season. In Rio de Janeiro, 16 people have died this year until now — in 2011 more than 900 people have died in towns near Rio de Janeiro during the rainy season. In São Paulo, some cities have declared state of emergency. It is amazing, but people die yearly in floods and mudslides and the local authorities use the same excuses and make the same mistakes!
In the capital of São Paulo, according to a recent study made by the Faculty of Economics, Management and Accounting (FEA-USP), the total loss from the recent floods that struck the city is estimated at more than US$ 400 million.
The most impressive thing is that every year the same things happen, the same people sit in the same places and absolutely no effort is made to avoid the problems that everybody knows that are going to happen the next year and the year after ad infinitum. When the rains are gone, nobody seems to care anymore. It’s just unbelievable…
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