It’s a family affair: Sri Lanka’s protests turn deadly
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The Economist
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🗓️ 11 May 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Demonstrations that eventually ousted the prime minister have cost lives, but the protest mood is not fading: many want every member of the storied Rajapaksa family out of government. We examine an effort to develop undersea GPS and learn why a watery sat-nav would be so useful. And why 1972 was such a formative year for music in Brazil.
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| 1:03.6 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. Today, from London, I'm your host, |
| 1:09.0 | Jason Palmer. Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:17.5 | Getting around on land using GPS is easy, but the same idea doesn't work under the sea. And there's a lot going on down there, from biological mysteries to burgeoning industries. |
| 1:29.6 | We take a look at the effort to develop a kind of underwater satnav. |
| 1:35.4 | And the 1970s were a bountiful time for music in Brazil, but 1972 was a particular year of blossoming. |
| 1:51.0 | We travel back 50 years to see a creative ferment that's still making its way into popular culture today. |
| 1:57.0 | First up, though. Sri Lanka is in lockdown, not the COVID kind, |
| 2:06.1 | the state of emergency, curfew, army on the streets kind. |
| 2:10.9 | Protests that started simmering in mid-March have turned violent, deadly. |
| 2:19.4 | The anti-government anger behind them has a mix of causes. |
| 2:23.6 | The country is in the grip of an economic crisis not seen since the 1940s. |
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