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First Place
Daniel Berehulak
Getty Images Reportage for The New York Times
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PAULISTANA, BRAZIL - JANUARY 31, 2014: Auzenir Maria di Nascimento Pereira, sits with her family outside of one of her relatives homes, to the abandoned Transnordestina railway project on January 31, 2014 in the village of Quilombo Contente near Paulistana, Piaui province, in Northern Eastern Brazil. Auzenir Maria di Nascimento Pereira was forced to destroy her own home after she had a house built and relocated onto her mothers lands, but losing the property to the project. The Transnordestina, a 1,400-mile railroad project which a steel company began building in 2006 in northeast Brazil, offers a view into the pitfalls plaguing projects big and small across Brazil. Intended to be finished in 2010 at a cost of about $1.8 billion, the railroad is now expected to cost at least $3.2 billion, with ample financing from state banks, and be completed sometime around 2016. Long stretches along the routes where freight trains were already supposed to be running now stand completely deserted.
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