How to recover from the Brumadinho dam collapse
Explaining Brazil
English - January 30, 2019 00:55 - 23 minutes - 10.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsBusiness News News News Commentary brazil lula bolsonaro pensions economy politics latin america Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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On January 25, an iron tailings dam near the town of Brumadinho, in the Southeastern state of Minas Gerais, spilled the equivalent of at least 12 hundred Olympic-sized pools of mud onto the surrounding region. - How did this happen? - Who is to blame? - What will be the lasting environmental consequences? - And, most importantly, how can we prevent this from happening again? Read show notes. —