Crisis shadow over Brazil carnival

rio de janeiro - The lingering recession hangs this year as a shadow over the Carnival celebrations. As some fifty municipalities throughout the country have canceled the whole party, because money for more pressing matters need such as a new ambulance, Brazilian media reported.

The most famous and largest partygoer, Rio de Janeiro, the city where the mayor says to go hungry this year, at least a billion doller (940 million euros). Rio de Janeiro is also the capital of the state where the deficit six times increase risk of dropping out.

The Rio carnival will not be canceled, but many carioca, such as the inhabitants are called, thinking anxiously back to the police strike in the neighboring state of Espíritu Santo. Which led this month to a wave of crime and explained the capital Vitória virtually lamb.