Denver Post: Northeastern Brazil's two-year drought is written in textures.
The brittle puff of a desiccated cactus. The greasy leather of a cow carcasses' neck, still stretched out for a drink. And the hot hiss of rain, falling for the first time in two years on a parched bean field: too little, too late.
The drought, Brazil's worst in decades, is a catastrophe.
In economic terms, it was the fourth-worst natural disaster to hit the planet last year, costlier than even the western United States drought,...