{"id":250696,"date":"2024-05-10T21:58:41","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T21:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/in-brazil-unprecedented-flooding-may-force-a-political-reckoning\/"},"modified":"2024-05-10T22:27:30","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T22:27:30","slug":"in-brazil-unprecedented-flooding-may-force-a-political-reckoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/in-brazil-unprecedented-flooding-may-force-a-political-reckoning\/","title":{"rendered":"In Brazil, unprecedented flooding may force a political reckoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\n      <iframe style=\"margin: 0 auto 20px; width: 100%; height: 100px; border: none; display: none\" data-project-id=\"Yual8er4aaQbafhcldNK\" allowfullscreen=\"false\" allowtransparency=\"\" allow=\"clipboard-read; clipboard-write\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"ad-auris-iframe\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">Vitor Martinez, a 25-year-old musician and community organizer, lives in Porto Alegre, the capital of Rio Grande do Sul \u2014 the southernmost state in Brazil. Martinez\u2019s neighborhood borders Gua\u00edba Lake, around which Porto Alegre\u2019s main attractions are clustered. On a sunny, 80-degree Fahrenheit day in late March, people biked, ran, and strolled along the promenade that surrounds the lake. Shoppers flocked to a mall on the bottom floor of a brand new Hilton DoubleTree hotel in the middle of the neighborhood. More than 23,000 people from all over the world gathered a few miles away at a conference center near the city\u2019s historic downtown to talk about the future of technology and business in South America. That version of Porto Alegre \u2014 manicured and prosperous \u2014 is a distant memory now, Martinez said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">Last Friday, after a week of unrelenting&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/extreme-weather\/in-brazil-unprecedented-flooding-may-force-a-political-reckoning\/\"target=\"_blank\">Read full article originally published on grist.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vitor Martinez, a 25-year-old musician and community organizer, lives in Porto Alegre, the capital of Rio Grande do Sul \u2014 the southernmost state in Brazil. Martinez\u2019s neighborhood borders Gua\u00edba Lake, around which Porto Alegre\u2019s main attractions are clustered. 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