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Letter from Manaus Last week I went to Manaus for a conference. It was 40 years since the first time I'd been there. Manaus then was a small town of elegant old houses dating from the rubber boom, built around the grandiose Opera House, a town of precarious shanties lining the igarapés, or inlets. Moored on the river was the Cidade Flutuante, a floating shantytown of bars and stores. It was a town where y [ ... ]
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