Maceió: How Are Lives Repaired After the Disaster?

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The tunnels generated by decades of underground mining sank 6% of the territory of the city of Maceió, the capital of Alagoas, a thriving tourist city in northeastern Brazil. No one clearly imagined the consequences of the extraction of gem salt in the area - a mineral product of the sea evaporation process that is used in products as varied as lamps to PVC-, which began in 1975, would end up bringing down the lives of more than 60,000 people.It…