BRAZIL: WITNESS TO A CENTURY OF CHANGE, BOTH GOOD AND BAD
Born in the rural town of Sao Domingos de Mariana, in the hinterland of the southeastern state of Minas Gerais, she still remembers when horses and ox-drawn carts were the main means of transport. "It took three hours on horseback to reach the train station when I was a little girl," she t...
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Published in | Global Information Network p. 1 |
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Language | English |
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16.10.2003
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Summary: | Born in the rural town of Sao Domingos de Mariana, in the hinterland of the southeastern state of Minas Gerais, she still remembers when horses and ox-drawn carts were the main means of transport. "It took three hours on horseback to reach the train station when I was a little girl," she told IPS. In the 20th century, three-quarters of which was witnessed by Dutra de Oliveira, Brazil's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew 100 times, while the population grew tenfold, according to "Statistics of the 20th Century", a broad compilation of data put together by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). The Dutra family is an illustration of those changes. After leaving the rural town of Sao Domingos de Mariana, they moved to a neighborhood on the outskirts of Belo Horizonte, the capital of the state of Minas Gerais. |
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