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#BRAZIL: #Paraguay: #Argentina: The black market prospers and the state retreats. Mary Anastasia O'Grady, Wsj Editorial

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🗓️ 14 June 2024

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#BRAZIL: #Paraguay: #Argentina: The black market prospers and the state retreats. Mary Anastasia O'Grady, Wsj Editorial
https://www.wsj.com/articles/brazil-enables-the-black-market-eedb14c7

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This is a

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CBS I in the world. I'm John Bachelor to the mouth of the iguasoo that is a river and a location in Brazil but it is also a way to enter

0:18.0

into the discussion of the tribe border region and black marketeering in modern Brazil and its neighbors.

0:26.0

Mariana Staggio Grady writing for the Wall Street Journal editorial page,

0:30.0

she's the America's editor and columnist, about the criminality that is

0:37.2

apparently normalized throughout these three countries and what is to be done.

0:41.0

Mary, a very good evening to you.

0:43.2

You begin of course with this spectacular waterfall, the devil's throat.

0:47.0

What is that, Mary?

0:48.0

Well, it's a huge waterfall system.

0:52.8

It's called the Igwasu Falls.

0:57.6

The Devil's Throat is one of the falls in this system.

1:02.2

The reason they call it a system

1:03.8

is because the different waterfalls

1:05.8

are broken up by small patches of land.

1:08.7

So there's one huge one, and that's called Devil's Throat,

1:12.0

and then there's some smaller ones so in all it's called the

1:15.6

Igwasu Falls but the Devil's Throat is the largest and and uh and as I explained in the column quite

1:22.0

terrifying because when you view it from the Brazilian side, you're pretty close to it.

1:27.0

I mean, you look over the railing and it's right there.

1:30.0

So it's, as I said, both exhilarating and also kind of terrifying.

1:35.0

The tourist attraction is evident.

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