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Carnival, in Rio 1, 5 million in the square despite the record heat

2020-02-26T15:12:36.362Z


Temperature in the city has touched 40 degrees on Shrove Tuesday (ANSA)


Shrove Tuesday in the name of the record heat in Rio de Janeiro: according to information from the Municipality's Operations Center, the thermal sensation reached 55.4 degrees at midday yesterday in Santa Cruz, in the west of Rio. For the AlertaRio monitoring system, it was the highest temperature of the year in the city. Despite the heat, about 1.5 million people went outside to celebrate in the wake of the 'blocos de rua' on the last day of the official carnival, when the thermometers reached 37.7 degrees.

The Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, criticized the parade presented at the Rio de Janeiro Carnival by the samba school Mangueira, which in the Sambodromo showed the figure of Jesus emerging from a favela, while on another allegorical float a black Christ appeared crucified and surrounded by symbols related to the LGBT community, to the women and indigenous people of the Amazon. For the head of state - interviewed by local journalists on Guarujà beach, the city on the coast of Sao Paulo chosen by him for the summer holidays - Mangueira "offended religions". The minister of the secretariat of government, Luiz Eduardo Ramos, has also criticized on social media the choice made by the samba school. "I am a defender of freedom of expression, an important value in democracy. But as a Christian I do not think it is reasonable to use the figure of Jesus, son of God, in the way the samba school Mangueira did. Regardless of those who believe or no, respect Catholics and Christians! "wrote Ramos.

Source: ansa

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