![]() ![]() Last year, however, Sirqueira was not invisible. “How can he pass here every day and not see the families here?” I see him and his security pass by here every day,” she said on a hot, dusty afternoon outside her improvised home. She is one of Brazil’s 40 million or so “invisibles”, a term coined by Economy Minister Paulo Guedes for those without formal employment who have flown largely under the radar of Brazil’s government - and society. Sirqueira lives by a landfill less than a mile from the Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, along with 36 other families, and scrapes together cash by recycling trash. ![]() Tatiana Araujo de Sirqueira, a 33-year-old single mother of six, and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro are almost neighbours, but they inhabit different universes.
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