Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Tale of One City

To tourist Rio De Janerio means ; Carnival, good food, beautiful beaches and bikini models. To the poor it means living in the crowded , unsanitary and drug infested favellas. There are more than 800 favellas in Rio and they came into existance after the Canudos Civil in 1895 -1896.The soldiers and people of African decent built houses from whatever materials they can find because the government failed to accomodate them with housing after the war! See video slide show below.

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