The hidden (and hard-working) side of the great Rio de Janeiro Carnival: million-dollar subsidies and workers at 40ºC for 280 euros per month

These days the Sambadrome of Rio de Janeiro becomes the capital of the world. Large groups receive up to one million euros a year in public subsidies, always subject to great controversy. But in the bowels of the largest Carnival on the planet, the workers who put it together face marathon days in hot and humid warehouses, with salaries that in many cases do not exceed 500 euros per month. Read

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