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Rio Olympics Kicks Off With Ode to Forests, Favelas And Funk

2016-08-05 19:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

NDTV: Brazil unfurled a vast canvas celebrating its rainforest and the creative energy of its wildly diverse population to the tune of samba, bossa nova and funk in welcoming the world on Friday to the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. In a country of great economic inequality, the opening ceremony celebrated the culture of the favelas, the slums that hang vertiginously above the renowned beaches of Rio and ring the site of Friday's spectacle, the famed Maracana stadium. There was no glossing over...

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