Brazil is a series of contradictions. It is the worlds secondlargest emerging economy. Unemployment is low. A decade of heady growth and Progressive Social policies has reduced glaring discrepancies between rich and poor, to the point where now half the population is middleclass. But the hundreds of thousands of People Living in poverty in rio de janeiros shantytowns or favelas, have been left behind, concrete and corrugated metal shacks perch one atop another on the hillsides above rio. They are the locus of much of the violence. Gang on gang, militia on gang and gang on militia violence confirm cultural notions of hypermasculinity. Brazilian culture is rife with violence and it comes from all sides. It comes from the petty cartels, to the government. To the government. Brazil claims the globes seventhhighest homicide rate. Violence and murder have remained stubbornly high even though the police started to wrest control of many of the favelas from drug lords that in advance of brazil
Brazil is a series of contradictions. It is the worlds secondlargest emerging economy. Unemployment is low. A decade of heady growth and Progressive Social policies has reduced glaring discrepancies between rich and poor, to the point where now half the population is middleclass. But the hundreds of thousands of People Living in poverty in rio de janeiros shantytowns or favelas, have been left behind, concrete and corrugated metal shacks perch one atop another on the hillsides above rio. They are the locus of much of the violence. Gang on gang, militia on gang and gang on militia violence confirm cultural notions of hypermasculinity. Brazilian culture is rife with violence and it comes from all sides. It comes from the petty cartels, to the government. To the government. Brazil claims the globes seventhhighest homicide rate. Violence and murder have remained stubbornly high even though the police started to wrest control of many of the favelas from drug lords that in advance of brazil