Banned since the 1890s yet wide played until recently, Rio betting crippled has beardown links to carnival, shot and gangs

At the intersection of 2 of the busiest streets successful the Copacabana neighbourhood, conscionable a five-minute locomotion from Rio de Janeiro’s astir celebrated beach, it is imaginable to larks a gambling crippled created 134 years agone – and banned for astir arsenic long.

There is simply a constabulary presumption conscionable 1 artifact away, but it is nary inconvenience for the bookie.