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In recent years, due to its relative safety in comparison to other favelas, Rocinha has developed tourism-oriented activities such as hostels, nightclubs and guided tours. In September 2017, between 150 and 601 tourists were estimated to visit the slum per day, despite foreign governments' and the Rio police's safety warnings recommending ...
In the music video for the 2012 song "Let's Go" by Calvin Harris featuring Ne-Yo, a boy wakes up in a favela in Rio. A favela is featured as a bomb scenario map in the game Counter-Strike. In the 2015 video game Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, the Operation Skull Rain DLC comes with two Brazilian operators and a map which is a Brazilian favela.
Between 10 and 15 women are murdered each day in Brazil. [22] [23] A government sponsored study found that 41,532 women were murdered in Brazil between 1997 and 2007. [23] In 2012, only 8% of all homicide victims were female. [24]
Organized crime is intrinsically intertwined with Greater Rio de Janeiro's history, growing with the development of the cities zones and their favelas.Rio de Janeiro is unique in that it has some of its wealthiest, tourist-driven communities located nearby neighborhoods that face high proportions of violence and criminal presence.
Along with the problem of poverty, Brazil is among the ten most unequal countries in the world, according to the Institute of Applied Economic Research (Ipea) of Brazil. Brazil has 0.539 by the Gini index, based on 2018 data. It is among the ten most unequal countries in the world, being the only Latin American in the list where Africans appear.
For residents of Morro da Babilonia, one of Rio de Janeiro's underdeveloped 'favela' neighborhoods, geopolitics rarely enters daily conversation, but as the city readies to host leaders from the ...
Crime and violence affect the lives of millions of people in Latin America.Some consider social inequality to be a major contributing factor to levels of violence in Latin America, [1] where the state fails to prevent crime and organized crime takes over State control in areas where the State is unable to assist the society such as in impoverished communities.
In November 2010, there was a major security crisis in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro and some of its neighboring cities. The city's criminal drug trafficking factions initiated a series of attacks in response to the government placing permanent police forces [4] into Rio's slums.