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Brazil cans carnival as recession bites

Postby redmanjp » January 11th, 2016, 8:28 pm

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http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/b97905ea-b5db-11e5-8358-9a82b43f6b2f.html#axzz3x56Z8oFf


Brazil cans carnival as recession bites

Samantha Pearson in São Paulo


Pack away the nipple tassels and dismantle the floats: carnival has been cancelled.

Towns and cities across Brazil are being forced to scrap the annual carnival parade as the country is braced for what is expected to be the worst recession since at least the 1930s.


The traditional five-day celebration, set for early February this year, normally offers respite from Brazil’s troubles — even the 2008 global financial crisis failed to damp spirits and spending.

But with the country stuck in a deep recession, unemployment and inflation rising, and President Dilma Rousseff’s government mired in the biggest corruption scandal in the country’s history, Brazilians are in no mood to party.

Campinas, home to 3m people in São Paulo state, is among the cities that has been forced to rein in the festivities, including withdrawing public funding for its much-loved parade by local samba schools. Gabriel Rapassi, the city’s director of culture, said the local government could not afford this year’s carnival bill of R$1.3m ($322,000) due to a sharp drop in sales tax revenues from struggling local businesses.

“Non-essential services are the first to suffer,” Mr Rapassi said. “2015 was already a very difficult year for us and now we are hearing that 2016 will be even worse.”

Carnival has also been cancelled in Porto Ferreira two hours’ drive away — the first time the parade had been called off since the city began organising the event more than 30 years ago. Porto Ferreira’s mayor said the decision was taken to help save the R$120,000 needed to buy a new ambulance.

Macapá, capital of the northern state of Amapá, and Lavras do Sul in the south have also put festivities on hold, with more municipalities expected to follow suit in the next couple of weeks.

While unofficial street parties are likely to go ahead, the celebrations are set to be more muted.

The hedonistic carnival celebration is considered the most important holiday across Brazil, with Rio de Janeiro’s spectacular parades attracting close to 1m tourists last year. While parties fill the streets, the highlight in most cities is the official parade organised by samba schools with the financial backing of the local government.

Olga Valles, owner of Condal, one of Rio de Janeiro’s largest producers of carnival masks, says sales are down almost a third ahead of the year’s festivities. She admits that she cannot recall a worse year for the business since she arrived from Spain in 1994.

“The economic situation here is even worse than most people imagine. Shops that were spending R$40,000-R$50,000 with us are now placing orders for R$3,000,” Ms Valles said.
An employee works on masks of Brazilian football star Neymar, at the carnival masks factory Condal, in Sao Gon?alo, about 35 km from downtown Rio de Janeiro, on January 9, 2013. Rio's world famous carnival takes place February 9-12. AFP PHOTO/VANDERLEI ALMEIDA (Photo credit should read VANDERLEI ALMEIDA/AFP/Getty Images)
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A Condal employee works on masks of Brazilian football star Neymar

Claudia Sakuraba, who runs the Carnaval Store in São Paulo that supplies fabric for more than 90,000 costumes a year, said 2016 looked like being the toughest year since she set up more than a decade ago, with sales 15 per cent lower.

“So many shops near me have gone bust because of the recession,” Ms Sakuraba said.

As well as uncertainty over Brazil’s economic and political future, the falling real has also made imported fabric more expensive.

The gloom is evident in the Getulio Vargas Foundation’s consumer confidence index, which has fallen to new lows in recent months. Ms Rousseff’s approval ratings have shown a similar trajectory.

Alberto Ramos, chief Latin America economist at Goldman Sachs, said: “The anxiety is created by a dysfunctional macro picture where growth continues to contract, unemployment is going up and inflation remains in double digits.”
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Worker with carnival costumes in downtown Rio de Janeiro

Brazil’s economy contracted 3.7 per cent in 2015, according to economists polled by the central bank. They predict it will shrink by a further 2.99 per cent this year.

The public sourness is all the more acute because many Brazilians believe the economic problems were self-inflicted.

Ms Rousseff’s ruling Workers’ party, emboldened by the proceeds of the commodities boom, spent much of its past 13 years in power pursuing populist and expansionary fiscal policies, but ignoring what economists say are the wider structural reforms needed for sustainable growth.

While this fiscal largesse helped to lift millions out of poverty and empowered poorer Brazilians, it also paved the way for the current crisis by leaving the economy vulnerable to the collapse in commodities prices.

Fitch last month became the second credit rating agency to cut Brazil’s debt to junk status amid concerns over its growing fiscal deficit. Ms Rousseff also faces impeachment proceedings, while a vast corruption scandal at Petrobras, the state-controlled oil company, has implicated many in her ruling coalition.

Poorer Brazilians have on carnival days traditionally worn masks of some of their heroes — including Ms Rousseff and her predecessor Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. But even they are not popular with revellers this time, according to Ms Valles.

“Only our witch and monster masks are doing well,” she said. “Politicians are not having a good year.”
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Re: Brazil cans carnival as recession bites

Postby K74T » January 11th, 2016, 8:30 pm

In before "dat shudda happen here too"

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Re: Brazil cans carnival as recession bites

Postby pugboy » January 11th, 2016, 8:40 pm

nah God is a Trini, we good to go

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Re: Brazil cans carnival as recession bites

Postby cinco » January 12th, 2016, 12:35 am

Umm
Rio 2016...

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Re: Brazil cans carnival as recession bites

Postby zoom rader » January 12th, 2016, 4:32 am

Very smart to ban carnival .

Meanwhile in trin the show must go on.

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Re: Brazil cans carnival as recession bites

Postby BRZ » January 12th, 2016, 7:27 am

No government in Trinidad has the guts to call off carnival as all you have rightful said, SAD, we really should encourage people to SAVE and not spend thousands to go to all inclusives, further their alcohol addiction and so forth.

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Re: Brazil cans carnival as recession bites

Postby 88sins » January 12th, 2016, 8:39 am

Brasil carnival & Trini carnival are on 2 different levels fellas, & it's a cost/benefit issue.

It doesn't cost T&T govt as much as it dose the gov't of Brasil to allow carnival to proceed, & in T&T it's a little more beneficial than costly to the state to allow it to proceed.
Besides, with our low foreign reserves, & plenty foreigners paying for their costumes since last year in USD & Euro & GBP, if carnival were canceled we would actually putting out more foreign currency when our current objectives are to bring it in.

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Re: Brazil cans carnival as recession bites

Postby Habit7 » January 12th, 2016, 8:57 am

I think if ppl read the article that Rio carnival is still on, the municipal carnivals are the ones that are off.

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Re: Brazil cans carnival as recession bites

Postby SUPAstarr » January 12th, 2016, 9:17 am

Yea i deleted that post from my fb cuz i cant find any other supporting articles. Seems like sensationalism.

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Re: Brazil cans carnival as recession bites

Postby EmilioA » January 12th, 2016, 9:38 am

I not seeing any link. What the source ?

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Re: Brazil cans carnival as recession bites

Postby zoom rader » January 12th, 2016, 9:41 am

Ban this chit now

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Re: Brazil cans carnival as recession bites

Postby EmilioA » January 12th, 2016, 9:43 am

I not seeing any link. What the source ?

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Re: Brazil cans carnival as recession bites

Postby uncle sam » January 12th, 2016, 10:01 am

Having a couple of mental health days, especially in these stressful times is very important... No "Great Depression" for us here in Trinidad.. That would cause more harm than good

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Re: Brazil cans carnival as recession bites

Postby 88sins » January 12th, 2016, 10:19 am

zoom rader wrote:Ban this chit now


& while we at it, get rid of divali one time. setta useless noise from bussin bamboo & firecrackeers in d blasted place is a nuisance

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Re: Brazil cans carnival as recession bites

Postby 10-01 » January 12th, 2016, 10:27 am

88sins wrote:
zoom rader wrote:Ban this chit now


& while we at it, get rid of divali one time. setta useless noise from bussin bamboo & firecrackeers in d blasted place is a nuisance


:lol: :lol:

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Re: Brazil cans carnival as recession bites

Postby kcgilll » January 12th, 2016, 10:40 am

If this is true could be good for us here in t&t if marketed right we maybe able to take some of those tourist that would of been heading that way

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Re: Brazil cans carnival as recession bites

Postby fallen_angel » January 12th, 2016, 12:10 pm

we have no future and our economy is spiraling to disaster, we are in a mess beyond recovery and all going to hell.

alcohol and fete is do only temporary relief we have to forget our dark future

we must keep this carnival and enjoy ourselves in it, we have nothing else to look forward to

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Re: Brazil cans carnival as recession bites

Postby sylphy_titan » January 12th, 2016, 12:21 pm

so they increase the price of basic food items and necessities, yet we are having Carnival...
All those millions of dollars allocated to NCC go on those few sound system providers, promoters, music trucks and venue owners doing their thing for all the fetes... no foreign exchange coming in there....

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Re: Brazil cans carnival as recession bites

Postby webb » January 12th, 2016, 4:49 pm

Why are waiting for the government to think for us

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Re: Brazil cans carnival as recession bites

Postby S_2NR » January 12th, 2016, 5:08 pm

fallen_angel wrote:we have no future and our economy is spiraling to disaster, we are in a mess beyond recovery and all going to hell.

alcohol and fete is do only temporary relief we have to forget our dark future

we must keep this carnival and enjoy ourselves in it, we have nothing else to look forward to


hahahahahaha, lemme buy my costume

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Re: Brazil cans carnival as recession bites

Postby bluefete » January 13th, 2016, 1:08 am

EmilioA wrote:I not seeing any link. What the source ?


http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/brazil-carniva ... on-1537521

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Re: Brazil cans carnival as recession bites

Postby Daran » January 13th, 2016, 5:41 am

Well firstly Carnival in Brazil isn't being cancelled, just down scaled from a government funding perspective.

Secondly, carnival is an industry that generates lots of employment and revenue in Trinidad, cancelling it would just make things significantly worse.

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Re: Brazil cans carnival as recession bites

Postby BoxEater » January 13th, 2016, 8:05 am

the essence of life is to procreate and continue the human species.... Carnival promotes this.....so it will not be stopped

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Re: Brazil cans carnival as recession bites

Postby nismoid » January 13th, 2016, 8:36 am

zoom rader wrote:Very smart to ban carnival .

Meanwhile in trin the show must go on.

Never thought I'd ever say this but I agree with ZR

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Re: Brazil cans carnival as recession bites

Postby fallen_angel » January 13th, 2016, 11:02 am

Jump and wineeeeeeeeee
Carnival 2016 is hereeeeeeeee

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Re: Brazil cans carnival as recession bites

Postby ruffneck_12 » January 13th, 2016, 1:52 pm

BoxEater wrote:the essence of life is to procreate and continue the human species.... Carnival promotes this.....so it will not be stopped



Your opinion biased, you jess wa eat bocks

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