Grow the tragedy caused by the negligence of water and politics in Brazil, where the dead are nearly 600. Rescuers believe the figure may double because they can not get whole villages that are under the rubble in areas hit by the rains in the mountains of Rio de Janeiro. Tourism in this state has lost this month $ 30 million (22,410,000 million euros) to suffer 95% cancellations of reservations at hotels, many of the most luxurious in the country, and more than 6,000 people remain at weathering, many isolated, thirsty, hungry and scared.Three days after the biggest environmental tragedy in the history of Brazil, which occurred in an area of 1,522 square kilometers, including all the big city of Sao Paulo, its people, who have seen how he destroyed half the houses, which are not power or telephone, without water, food or medicine, they feel abandoned to their fate despite the efforts of the 1,000 officers deployed by the Government.
These forces say they are unable to reach many places and bodies, as in putrefaction, manage to be removed. A "social crime" Collapse in the mountains, "now entitled to any page with character of war, the daily O Globo, while the daily Folha de Sao Paulo opens with the revelation of a study by the Government in 2008 already announced the tragedy with scientific data and fairly in the three cities of the disaster-Teresopolis, Petropolis and Nova Friburgo.
But the document remained a dead letter. The study, by experts as the geographer Ana Luiza Coelho Neto, explained that the three cities washed away lived with several risk factors "capable of generating massive impact." Nova Friburgo, the city with the highest number of deaths, the center has virtually disappeared under a wall of water and mud up to one meter in height, the report noted that most of the population was living in a state of risk.
Official data also show that both the State of Rio and the federal government spent 14 times more disastrous by rebuilding areas that prevent rainfall in recent years. While both impressed and outraged by the images released last night by the national television news network Globo, with more than 40 million viewers, interspersed with the bloody tragedy, the first ministerial meeting with the 37 new ministers chaired by Dilma Rousseff, in which there were laughing, some chewing gum and festive air.
The comments of the national press is wondering today how can a country that claims to be the fifth world power is not even able to rescue the devastated areas of the dead bodies and bring the food and medical necessities to the isolated especially in rural areas where, in desperation, shouting a few helicopters flying over the area for help.
The catastrophe has been announced more because, according to meteorologists, high humidity arrival of the Amazon, aided by conditions of extreme heat and low pressure, collided with a cold front arrived in the Southern Region, which created a lot of rain. The water came like a whirlwind in just two hours and dragged down slopes everything I could find a hundred kilometers per hour doing overflow and up to seven meters the many rivers running through cities.
However, the ultimate cause of many human casualties was due to the area, as already announced the official report this year has been a growth of over 20% of the population, crowded into the areas of risk and forests deforested and left raw land without the support of the roots. Hence, the tragedy is being surname of "social crime" rather than weather.
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