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Lack of maintenance harms locomotion of wheelchair users in Rio de Janeiro

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That transportation in Brazil is a huge chaos - as well as almost all public services in the country - isn't a new, but there's a problem more frequent in the city of Rio de Janeiro: the infrastructure for wheelchair users in bus. At first glance, you may think that there are no wheelchair lifts in buses, but they do exist. The problem is a lack of maintenance, a fact that the city of Rio de Janeiro has had to face, even during the Olympics. Faced with the financial crisis through which the state and municipal governments cross, the authorities say they have insufficient funds to make preventive and corrective repairs to equipments. Without having how to solve this misfortune, disabled people need to rely with the solidarity of drivers and passengers to get on the bus and to overcome the bureaucracy that is to be poor in Brazil. When they do not find anyone in solidarity, the solution is to try to embark alone, in an embarrassing situation that mixes shame and so...

Cuban government maintains consulate in high-standard house of São Paulo

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Although thousands of Cubans annually trying to leave the island due to bad social and economic conditions experienced by the local population, the Cuban government insists spend money maintaining their consulates in luxury residences in the last countries with which the dictatorial regime of Cuba have diplomatic relations. A clear example is the city of São Paulo, where the registered office of diplomatic representation of the country is located in a house of one of the cars of city neighborhoods.

Protests against President Dilma aren't shown on Brazilian TV

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After the revelation of numerous cases of corruption involving the current president of Brazil and members of the federal government, thousands of people are going to the streets of several cities every weekends to protest, but the main TV channels ( Globo , SBT , Bandeirantes and Record ) don't exhibit these manifestations and prefer to display news about violence cases in USA and European countries.