BRAZIL CANS CARNIVAL AS RECESSION BITES

Posted on 01/12/2016 | About Brazil

Pack away the nipple tassels and dismantle the floats: carnival has been cancelled. Towns and cities across Brazil are being forced to scrap the annual carnival parade as the country is braced for what is expected to be the worst recession since at least the 1930s.

The traditional five-day celebration, set for early February this year, normally offers respite from Brazil’s troubles — even the 2008 global financial crisis failed to damp spirits and spending. But with the country stuck in a deep recession, unemployment and inflation rising, and President Dilma Rousseff’s government mired in the biggest corruption scandal in the country’s history, Brazilians are in no mood to party.


Massive and bordering every other country on the South American continent except Chile and Ecuador, Brazil is a nation of varying contrasts with a melting pot of Spanish, Portuguese, European, African, and Indigenous cultural influences.

Equally contrasting are the country’s various natural geographical zones: the largest jungle in the world, the Amazon Rainforest; the world’s second longest river, the Amazon River, which almost dissects the continent in two; the Gran savannah bordering Venezuela; Fernando de Noronha Island, a tropical paradise and diver’s delight off the northern coast of Brazil; the famous beach towns of Recife and Olinda; Iguassu Falls, the largest waterfalls in the world on the border of Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay. Brazil offers something for everyone and Goway Travel can offer globetrotters one or all of the above on an incredible Brazilian vacation.