(3 Mar 2025)
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Rio de Janeiro – 22 February 2025
1. Various of revelers during a carnival street party
2. Various of revelers buying drinks with a street vendor
3. Street vendors pushing cart
4. Various of Erika Batista selling drinks
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5. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Erika Batista, 42 years old, street vendor:
“I arrived here yesterday, it was more or less 10:30 p.m. We slept in the street so we could be here today with cold drinks to serve the revelers.”
6. Revelers walking by street vendors
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7. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Erika Batista, 42 years old, street vendor:
“Carnival for me is the 14th (monthly salary), let’s put it that way, because the 13th was already New Year’s Eve. It’s an opportunity to earn money, sell more, hydrate people, because Rio de Janeiro is very hot. So you need the reveller and the street vendor.”
8. Revelers passing by a street vendor
9. Crowd of revelers
10. Street vendor with cold drinks and revelers passing by
STORYLINE:
Street vendors rely on Rio’s Carnival street parties as an economic lifeline that can sustain them for the rest of the year.
Erika Batista, a vendor who lives in an area outside Rio, last month spent a night sleeping on a street in bohemian neighborhood Santa Teresa, so she could arrive in time for the early-morning pre Carnival party “Heaven on Earth.”
“We slept in the street so we could be here today with cold drinks to serve the revelers," says Batista.
Known in Portuguese as “ambulantes” or “camelos," street vendors scour Instagram pages for times and locations, coordinate on WhatsApp groups, then race across parks and up hills, from Rio’s downtown to Copacabana beach, all to place themselves and their carts in the thronging crush of thousands — or hundreds of thousands — of thirsty revelers.
But as opportunity to cash in has grown, more and more vendors have joined the rush — and drawn pushback.
Rio’s City Hall conducted a lottery for 15,000 authorized vendors at this year’s Carnival — 5,000 more than last year, but observers say there are far more vendors than spots.
The ballooning number of vendors in recent years has also created tensions with party organizers. Party facilitators and revelers have accused hawkers of blockading the procession by setting up shop in the middle of its path with their heavy carts.
Still, vendors provide much-needed party fuel and hydration, and can themselves partake in the buzzing, joyous atmosphere.
More than that, though, it’s an economic lifeline, allowing them to pay off debts, buy presents for their kids and set them up for the rest of the year.
“It’s an opportunity to earn money, sell more, hydrate people, because Rio de Janeiro is very hot. So you need the revelers and the street vendor," says Batista.
AP video by Lucas Dumphreys
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