
Lalo de Almeida brazilian, b. 1970
39 3/8 x 26 in
English version:
ALTAMIRA, PA, Brazil. 09/01/2013. A fight between two women after a party in the river bank of Altamira, near the urban beach of the city. Many fights broke up around the same time on that Sunday, when the Belo Monte construction workers have a day off. The construction of the Belo Monte hydropower dam on the Xingu River has generated the most intense flow of migration of recent years in Brazil. The urban population grew from 100,000 to 140,000 in just two years, the vast majority of which was composed of single men; as a result, the town became more chaotic and increasingly violent, with a serious housing deficit, precarious sanitation, traffic accidents and prostitution.