By Susan Ormiston, CBC News, August 10, 2016
‘We have money, we have technology but we don’t have the interest to solve these problems’
Rio’s Christ the Redeemer statue towers over Guararapes, a favela on the way up the mountain to Brazil’s most famous attraction.
Residents feel a special pride looking up at the monument. But looking down to the river that bisects their community, they see a polluted, clogged waterway covered in garbage, struggling to make its way to the sea.
