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Similarities have been drawn between the cases of New Orleans, after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and Porto Alegre, which last month the worst flooding in 80 years. But the U.S. reconstruction was an enormous failure, and Brazil should not look at it for solutions.
FOLHA DE S.PAULO, O ESTADO DE S. PAULO (Brazil) Worldcrunch SÃO PAULO – Brazilian Justice Minister José Eduardo Cardozo has sparked controversy by describing the nation’s prison system as “medieval” and declaring that he would prefer to die rather than pass a long period in Brazilian jails. Brazil’s Fohla de S. Paulo daily reported the […]