Rio’s Carnival: The Most Glitzy and Glamourous Laundromat
Rio’s Carnival is the world’s greatest street party, top tourist attraction, and money maker, but it has an underbelly: the iconic samba schools are time-honored money laundering machines. A well-known fact which has been part of the Carnival folklore for decades. Brazilians have tolerated it; crime is so commonplace that people have become blas é . On Monday night, February 12, the glamorous, semi-naked queen of the samba school Mocidade de Padre Miguel, Fabiola de Andrade did something extra curriculum: she threw 100 sexy panties to the female spectators in the grandstands of the Marqu ê s de Sapuca ỉ Sambadrome. Sapuca ỉ is the iconic samba parade avenue designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer in 1984. Fabiola is the wife of Rog é rio de Andrade, the Mocidade boss. She lamented her husband’s absence, Rog é rio was home, in house arrest with a GPS bracelet. Another famous GPS-bracelet-wearing-samba-school boss was also unable...