All aboard! Cruise ships ease Belem's hotel dearth

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BELÉM. – Two impressive cruises rise over a dormant port in the Brazilian Amazon, where some 50,000 people will gather as of Monday for the UN climate conference.There is the river port of Outeiro in Belém, in northern Brazil, surrounded by fishing communities living in boats, now next to these floating hotels.With capacity for 6,000 people, the ships arrived from Europe to provide additional space to foreign delegates who are concentrated in Be…