Macro · Rio de Janeiro
—The headline. Rio’s mayor unveiled a plan to spend about 22.1 billion reais, roughly 4.4 billion dollars, through 2028.
—The biggest slice. Mobility takes the largest share at about 6.3 billion reais, including five thousand new buses and a wider express-bus network.
—A new force. Some 1.6 billion reais goes to municipal security, most of it to a new elite city guard aiming for about four thousand officers.
—The largest pot. Close to nine billion reais is earmarked for infrastructure, flood defenses and works in long-neglected communities.
