Closure Of Celebrated Rio Music Nightclub Becomes Symbol Of Brazil's Crises

"It was Rio's equivalent of the Blue Note or Ronnie Scott's, a legendary downtown samba club famed for its caipirinha-fuelled jam sessions and for spawning some of the best young musicians in town. Today, though, Bar Semente lies abandoned, a graffiti-covered symbol of the city's post-mega-event slump. An epitaph has been sprayed on its facade: 'The Olympics, for who?'"

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