Teleférico do Alemão
Rusting hillside gondola line of six stations, shut down since two thousand sixteen amid corruption scandal.
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This guide to Teleferico do Alemao in Rio de Janeiro opens beneath the rusting towers of a cable-car line that once carried gondolas over Complexo do Alemao, one of the city's largest favela clusters. It follows the 2011 opening, championed by President Dilma Rousseff and Governor Sergio Cabral as a step toward peace before the World Cup and Olympics, and the corruption investigation that later sent Cabral to prison for a centuries-long sentence. Police now bunk in two of the old stations, beneath wires that still hang between the towers.
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