Analysis Of Rio De Janeiro 's Most Infamous Favela

The police in Rio de Janeiro regularly takes bribes from drug lords, abuses favela citizens, and sells back drugs and firearms to the drug trade. Because of this, the favela becomes scared of the police, which can make some places dangerous to be at which can make it easier for people to be killed.

In conclusion, reading about Carolina’s life has had a huge impact on my learnings of Brazil. While reading this book, I was able to reflect on what we learned and discussed about life in the favelas in class. When I hear of Brazil, I always hear of the wealthy places, pretty women and beautiful sites to visit. However, the favelas and life of the poor people living in Brazil is rarely mentioned and talked about. Reading Carolina’s diary gave me a different image of the country and showed Brazil in another light. Carolina’s diary gave me more insight on what the daily life of a favelado is like and what people who live in the favelas experience on a daily

Thousands of tiny, cliffside houses surround the city, climbing up into the verdant hills, packed together like brightly colored sardines. These are the favelas, home to hundreds of thousands of the poorest people in Brazil. Many of Rio’s favelas remain dangerous and unstable, but in the past several years the Brazilian government has begun a movement of pacification. Where once police would simply invade, battle a gang and withdraw, they are now permanently stationed to ensure the safety of neighborhood residents. This safety, however, brings with it a new kind of danger: as the favelas are pacified and begin to develop,

In a country of struggling economies, many have viewed the drug trade as one South American’ s most successful businesses. Latin America 's drug trafficking industry has been depicted in United States popular culture through motion pictures such as Scarface and Traffic. The purpose of my research is to take away society’s perception of what Hollywood has depicted drug trade to be and bring out what narcotics trafficking really is, as well as trying to coincide with the motivations of those people who take part in this. I will present the origins of drug trafficking, case studies regarding two countries (Mexico and Colombia), as well as the overall effects of the business on South America and United States. Drug Trafficking in South America starts in the early 19th century.

Violence comes in all forms and shapes within the context of Brazil. Brazil has had a long history of violence due to its colonial history and the contemporary socio-economic conditions that have arisen out of its history. The favelas of Brazil are an example of the extreme violence of all forms that exist in Brazilian society. Through her book The Spectacular Favela: Violence in Modern Brazil, Erika Robb Larkins makes a case on how the violence present in the favela of Rocinha have grown to become spectacles and commodified. These two factors contribute to the continuation of violence within the favelas community in various but connected ways.

Since 1980 and the entrance of gangs, the violence in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro has skyrocketed. Through the combination of several factors, the favelas have become very dangerous place for its residents to live in. Janice Perlman describes these factors as the ‘ingredients’ that create a ‘violence stew.’ These ‘ingredients’ each add to violence and put its residents in a more vulnerable position. Most of these ingredients are caused by a strong drug gangs, indifferent government with unaccountable police, and vulnerable poor population. Each these alone would not necessarily increase the violence seen in Rio today, but when combined together create this ‘violence stew.’

In both Bolivia and Brazil locals rallied around a plethora of issues. Bolivia, specifically Cochabamba, rallied around the issue unfair water practices by the foreign company Bechtel. Cochabamba’s dependence on Bechtel sprung out of a need for water that had festered due to overpopulation, deforestation, and poverty. However, Bechtel proved to be a major problem and increased water rates by more than 50% which caused the locals to riot. Problems also exist in Brazil in the favelas and for the landless peasants. Favelas are small houses that are on land that is not owned by the occupants of the favela. People live in favelas due to extreme poverty as many favelas lack sewage, garbage collection, water and are plagued with drug dealing and crime.

The article talks about the life inside these favelas. For tourists, these slums may be seen as a place of unique interest, but to the Brazilian people, these slums are the most dangerous places in the country. But the question arises that why can 't the government do anything about these slums. The article describes that these favelas are so dangerous that even the Brazilian armed police are often scared to launch any

In the documentary Favela Rising it introduces the viewer to Brazil's “shanty town” known as the Favelas. The opening scene shows children, families bathing in the streets and the startling statistics of young people being murdered 1987-2001 3,937 minors were murdered in a single city of Brazil (2:06). The Favela’s are plagued with criminals that have long been dominated by gangs of young boys dealing drugs. Unfortunately even though the presence of police is widely visible it didn’t mean they are available, which leaves the average citizens unprotected and frequently caught in the crossfire of police or criminal activity. Over the years the Brazilian government

Drug trafficking is one of the many evils that plagues the contemporary world. It causes violence, corruption and drug addiction. Brazil, sharing borders with three of the largest producers of cocaine, is a hub for trafficking as drugs are brought into Brazil to be consumed or shipped onwards to the US, Western Europe and even Japan. The frequent drug transfers have created violence and unrest in Brazil, not to mention addiction and drug dependency.

According to Heise, the film uses the conventional narrative of a thriller to represent Brazil as a fractured society where social groups are so much in conflict that no sense of solidarity is possible between them (2012, p.109). This statement is made clear through the strong contrast there is between the elite neighbourhoods and the favelas. The fast pace of filming, the use of “energetic rap music” (Heise, 2012, p.67), and the prominence of dark colours and outbursts of violence are almost exclusively confined to the

The 1960’s and 1970’s were troublesome times for the people of Brazil. They were engulfed in a fiery sea of a military dictatorship, while also being introduced to many new and upcoming countercultures of tradition; with one of the most prevalent subcultures being homosexuality. James N. Green discusses how the resistance movements of the time were dealing with this subculture that opposed the “normal” masculine and political structures of the leftist guerilla lifestyle.

Drug traffickers acted as patrons within the favela. Evidence from the interviews confirms the picture sketched by Arias in the favela of Santa Ana and Vigario Geral (Arias, 2006). When interviewees were asked about what the traffickers did for the community, the first thing they all

The slums of Rio pile onto steep hillsides, with no access for public transport and a struggle for even cars. Getting from point A to B consists of steps and thin alley ways all done by foot. The only solution to allowing residents of the

Although the World Cup and Olympic games are a great economic opportunity for Brazil and all brazilians, the displacement of the homes of those in the cross hairs of the infrastructure development is drastically detrimental to a large portion of the population. With that Brazil has begun to teeter on the brink of human rights violation. The situation is, as follows, explained by Raquel Rolnik (Special Rapporteur of the United Nations (UN) on adequate housing), who divides the violations in two large groups. The first has to do with transparency, the right to information and participation: