Millions in Brazil thrown back into poverty as pandemic aid dries up

Millions in Brazil thrown back into poverty as pandemic aid dries up

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Tatiana Araujo de Sirqueira, a 33-year old single mother of six, and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro are almost neighbors. But they inhabit different universes.

Sirqueira lives by a landfill less than a mile from the Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, along with 36 other families, and scrapes together cash by recycling trash.

She is one of Brazil’s 40 million or so “invisibles,” a term coined by Economy Minister Paulo Guedes for those without formal employment who had flown largely under the radar of Brazil’s government – and society.“I live beside the president. I see him and his security […]

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