RIO DE JANEIRO: Thousands of Brazilians lined up Wednesday at a Rio jobs fair, many of them so desperate to escape the country’s economic nosedive that they said they’d take anything on offer.

In a symbol of Brazil’s precipitous slide into economic hardship, the almost stationary queue stretched right across a large central square.

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