Nothing is more delusional than greed. You can with all, with prudence, with logic and the Amazon rainforest. The city of Manaus, as we know it, results from a form of greed which became known in the late nineteenth century as the rubber fever. Tires worldwide, among many other things, came from the rubber, that was extracted from various species of trees. It turns out that Amazon had many trees.
"Say no more", must have thought some businessmen, I imagine with bright eyes and an office away from the jungle. And were invented highways were rivers and roads were opened and many died weed, for there, things of the jungle, anopheles mosquitos and snakes and jaguars huge and very hot. But as previously mentioned, greed has no limits and soon create the most prosperous city in Brazil and one of the world's major. It was the first city in the country with electric lighting. Highways built over the marshes and a river port appeared Terminal 4 Barajas.
Greed knows no bounds and it didn't take long to create the most prosperous city in Brazil and one of the most important on the planet.
And business was good, so they decided, also, Manaus convert a benchmark for world culture and glamor. Bohemian crystal imported, and Carrara marble Louis XV furniture to build the Teatro Amazonas, tile domed velvet seats and.
Built a more proper Municipal Market galleries Brussels, brought architects and sculptors, to fill the city of fountains and beautiful facades, erected churches and even arranged for an electric train.
Finally invited to a lot of artists who should go up the Amazon River to the Black River, to sing in that theater that spoke the world for its magnificence. They orchestras from Italy, enshrined tenors and musicians of Eastern Europe. And then finally, after so much effort, Opera got quiet the murmur of the jungle.
And then finally, after so much effort, Opera got quiet the murmur of the jungle.
When we reach Manaus, did road from Boa Vista. Green had traveled for many hours and the impact of the city impossible too shocked us. You do not expect to see skyscrapers in the heart of the world's largest forest, but there were, aged somewhat because this city has long accused to Rubber Fever. Today, if you talk about it to mention fever yellow fever and malaria. The sources seem sad and do not disembark in the port mahogany and glass, but refreshments, bicycles and cans.
But, Manaus Brazil still prevailing party in Brazil. Opera may only stay in the echo of those great voices, but the street sounds of samba and joy. People smile at people and never tasted a guava smoothie as a snack bar any of Manaus.
The suburbs of Manaus is formed houseboats, where families home and sail over children boas and crocodiles samples tourists.
A boat took us away from the city and soon discover that the periphery of Manaus belongs to the world of the wild. We had time to fish piranhas and visit lilies so disproportionate in size that made you want to sail on them. We saw the meeting of the rivers, where the Amazon, Green, and Black River, with the color of coca cola, come together without mixing in a bout of currents that seem seas.
We also visited the men that do not fit in the city. The suburbs of Manaus is formed houseboats, where families home and sail over children boas and crocodiles samples tourists. In, Nor has limits survival.
A few weeks ago we had the unusual story of an Indian who went to Google Earth to save the Amazon jungle of greed of loggers. Perhaps the hope is another form of delirium.
