Parts of Maceio in northeastern Brazil have gone silent since thousands of residents evacuated en masse to escape the looming destruction of their cracking, crumbling homes. Structures are coming apart after decades of rock salt mining below.
The company isn’t forcibly evicting anyone, though those still here said it feels that way. It reached an agreement with prosecutors and public defenders to compensate families so they could uproot and start over elsewhere. By Braskem’s count, 97.4% of affected homes — more than 14,000 — are now vacant, the company said in its 2021 earnings call on Thursday.
The amount Braskem offered wasn’t enough for Natalícia Gonçalves. The retired teacher, 77, also said she felt too old to start fresh. So she watched as everyone in Pinheiro left her. Now she lives inside a makeshift fortress behind boards and plants aimed at deterring would-be burglars. Braskem security guards do rounds on motorcycles, briefly interrupting the evenings’ eerie silence.
No house has been swallowed by the earth, nor was any person killed. Capretz, a professor in the university’s architecture and urbanism school, said that doesn’t mean heartache was avoided.
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