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The Curmudgeon: “It’s not the 20 centavos!” (Revisited)

Opinion, by Michael Royster

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - This past week, protests about buses have broken out anew, with the Rio Municipal Assembly building taken over by demonstrators. Why all this tumult again?

The reason is simple. Arrangements between the city of Rio and the (privately owned) bus companies are, and always have been, an impenetrable thicket, into which prying eyes are most definitely not invited. There is no transparency, no publicity, no nothing.

What people know is that . . .

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