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Hanging Out
Photograph by Alex Webb

Corner-store hangouts are a common sight in the dirt-road neighborhoods around frontier cities such as Altamira in Pará. In the 1990s, after the government offered new agricultural subsidies, powerful elites drove squatters off rural land. Many settled on urban fringes.

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