After the Earth Summit, the Real Rio Remains
Living on Earth’s Peter Thomson reports on Rio de Janeiro’s slums, or favelas ? the neighborhoods that were left behind in the effort to polish up for the Earth Summit. This report was produced by George Homsy.
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