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The Curmudgeon on Shock Treatment

Opinion by Michael Royster

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Last week the Mayor’s office announced, with a discrete amount of pomp, that City Hall was about to start enforcing the Urban Clean-Up Code. Municipal Law 3.273 dates from 2001, yet for the past nine years its existence has been completely ignored by almost everyone, especially John & Jane Carioca, the Man & Woman on the Street.

Zero Tolerance it’s not, but the law sets out some 135 rules for the Subscribe to our Premium Membership Plan. Already Subscribed?

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