COP makeover: Vendors in the Ver-o-Peso market serving fish and açaí to customers at the newly renovated booths in the food sector. — Photos: Maria Magdalena Arrellaga/The New York Times
AT an Amazonian market by the river, the rats are mostly gone and the tourists are plentiful. Still, nobody can agree on whether that’s a good thing.
The Ver-o-Peso market, one of the oldest in Belém, a Brazilian city on the edge of the Amazon rainforest, had certainly been in rough shape. To prepare for the tens of thousands of visitors arriving for the UN Climate Change Conference COP30, which was wrapping up at press time, it did some sprucing up.
