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Brazil’s Tourism Agency Inadvertently Shared Post on Violence in Rio

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Brazilian Agency for International Promotion of Tourism (EMBRATUR) shared on Tuesday, February 4th, a comment from a tourist speaking ill of Rio de Janeiro. The mistake has already been corrected but not before it became viral.

In the message, according to the G1 website, the young woman - using the name Withlai - said that "Rio [de Janeiro] is a beautiful city, but beautiful is not enough", continuing: "I just spent three days in  Rio with my family, and in those three days my family and I were robbed and my nine-year-old sister witnessed a . . .

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