Brazil's failures to enforce regulatory standards worries me.
Brazil's failures to enforce regulatory standards worries me.
You do realise the favelas are technically illegal house plots.
ie the Locals have just set up home in undesirable hilly locations in such numbers the government is pretty much powerless to do anything due to the sheer amount of people they would have to rehouse??
I suppose they could go in and bulldoze the joint but what would it achieve when you would create a couple of hundred homeless poor people in a day.
The people living there have more than enough misfortune to deal with already
But that pic is not in the favelas, is it? Looks nothing like the slums I've seen in Asia, and there sure as hell weren't any satellite dishes in the shitholes I'm familiar with.
It was in the favela. Not quite in the heart and soul of it but still in the favela. That was on one of the widest streets around the exterior of it.
As for the satellite dishes. Not all who live there are poor. Some people who achieve some financial success in life still continue to live in the favela and just pimp their shack up with LCD's Satellites etc
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Thank you Mfks for your very interesting and entertaining account of your adventures in South America, and you certainly did enhance my enjoyment of a great world cup.
8yrs ago, sheesh. This should be a podcast now. Great story.
I take it you havent done this again. Probably still in recovery.