RIO DE JANEIRO — Homicide investigators said Wednesday that they would charge 10 police officers with torture and murder in the disappearance of an impoverished construction worker from Rocinha, one of Rio de Janeiro's largest slums, the latest development in a case that has been a festering source of tension here for months.
Four men named by Mexican authorities as drug cartel members who allegedly killed 43 missing students are actually impoverished construction workers who confessed only after being tortured, according to a report published Sunday in Mexican magazine El Proceso.
All four of the men who Murillo Karam said in November belonged to the Guerreros Unidos drug gang and confessed to killing the students were actually impoverished construction workers and only confessed after being tortured, according to a report by journalists Anabel Hernández and Steve Fisher published last month in Mexico's Proceso magazine.
But again, history shows that purpose-built capitals often take far longer than anticipated to finish.To give a few examples: the small Central American state of Belize was further impoverished by the construction of a new capital, Belmopan, in the 1960s-1970s, whose cost spiralled to four times its original estimate.
He added that while hosting the Games could be expensive, it could still help an impoverished nation: "The construction, tourism and legacy effects - so yes, the Spanish economy could benefit".
After several years of research into the construction needs of impoverished areas, the company opened a manufacturing and research facility in Amherst, Nova Scotia, in October to produce lightweight precast panels in a material it calls Vidacrete, which it says is resistant to wind, fire, mold and insects.
Bringing construction projects to impoverished areas, for instance, has no long-term impact unless local contractors and local skilled labor is sourced for the project.
Staying in a $3 billion hotel in Abu Dhabi, where much of the recent construction was done by impoverished South Asian laborers, he longed for the decadence of the French Riviera.
The impoverished North is desperately short of building material and construction equipment.
Where ethicists ask whether a bad may generate a good, we may ask whether the presence or construction of a functionally or aesthetically impoverished architectural object might occasion the presence or construction of a more useful or pleasing architectural object.
He can remember only one occasion when they did: photographs he took while working in an impoverished black community in the 1960s led to the construction of a medical clinic near Savannah, Ga.
