On 1 February 1991, a queue stretched past a bank in Rio de Janeiro. An AFP photograph caption records Brazilians waiting there after the announcement of the second Collor economic plan, identifying both the city and the date.
President Fernando Collor’s government introduced rapid monetary and financial changes in response to severe inflation. The photograph captures what a description of policy alone can miss: people responded by going to a particular bank and forming a physical order outside it.
The caption does not establish the exact transaction sought by every person in the line. This article therefore does not narrowly label it a currency-exchange counter queue. It presents the more precise claim supported by the evidence: a bank queue in Rio following the second Collor plan. It is a dated record of economic policy reshaping citizens’ time and movement.