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Travel with Rick Steves

555 First Timer's Brazil; What Brexit Means to Me; Guatemala Solutions

Travel with Rick Steves

Rick Steves

Places & Travel, Rick Steves, Travel, Public Radio, 721132, Society & Culture, Npr, Europe

4.52.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Travel writer Seth Kugel offers tips for first-time visitors to Brazil, then a team of European tour guides share their personal — and diverging — takes on the Brexit conundrum. And two leaders of an anti-poverty nonprofit explain their innovative approach for combating systemic poverty among farmers in Guatemala.

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0:00.0

The stress is building up over what happens next since Britain voted to leave the European Union.

0:06.0

However it finally plays out, the uncertainty has taken a toll on people's emotions.

0:11.0

You can read all the rational arguments and the debate that goes on, but the majority

0:15.8

of people vote by feeling an emotion.

0:18.4

We'll get a personal look at the Brexit issue in the hour ahead.

0:22.6

With the news about people fleeing Central America for the U.S. border, the conditions

0:26.4

that they're trying to escape and how to change it for the better seems to have been getting

0:30.8

overlooked.

0:31.8

A person that has dignity and opportunity to work will never

0:35.9

leave their home. Coming up, we'll hear about a pioneering effort in international development

0:40.4

that I recently got to observe firsthand in rural Guatemala.

0:44.5

And enjoying your first trip to Brazil may be easier than you think.

0:48.0

A five hour flight from Miami to Minouse the capital of the Amazon.

0:53.0

It's all in the hour ahead on Travel with Rick Steves.

0:55.7

Stay with us.

0:56.7

However, the contentious Brexit of Britain from the European Union plays itself out, it's been bringing a lot of stress and uncertainty all across Europe.

1:10.0

Coming up on today's travel with Rick Steeves, we'll hear how a number of my European friends are being affected by it,

1:16.0

whether they voted for or against it, or weren't given a chance to weigh in at all.

1:21.0

We'll also learn about an innovative model to combat systemic poverty that I've

1:24.9

recently had a chance to observe firsthand. We'll hear how thousands of farmers

1:29.1

in Central America are getting the chance to own the land they work on.

1:33.0

But first, Travel writer Seth Kugel offers advice

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