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Federal troops move into Rio favelas to secure access to Galeao airport
Brazilian police backed by troops occupied a massive favela next to Rio de Janeiro's international airport without firing a shot to secure one of the city's most violent neighborhoods long run by drug dealers. Read full article
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Mar 31st, 2014 - 01:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Wonder what will happen after the tournament?
It's comical if it were not sad the read:
Mar 31st, 2014 - 01:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“troops occupied a massive favela next to Rio de Janeiro's international airport without firing a shot”
When you are talking about your own country. This no doubt will make the fans of fubol fell more secure as tourist. I suspect now rather than convoys, armed escorts and flak jackets....they can drop the convoys and go to the events on their own time.
I don't see how Brazilians could ever consider themselves civilized while they have these massive slums.
Mar 31st, 2014 - 02:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They'll never be able to pull themselves out of the muck with this much poverty and uneducated underclass.
Faca na Caveira e nada na carteira.
Mar 31st, 2014 - 05:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Got to be said those “armored cars” do look an awful lot like APCs rather than armoured cars.
Apr 01st, 2014 - 09:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0That's got to be rough on the tracks and the road surface.
I go twice a year to the United States. Every time I find myself amazed at the amount of poverty that I see.
Apr 01st, 2014 - 10:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0Worse, I see malnourished people starving in the streets. New York, Miami, Los Angeles and Las Vegas has a lot of poverty and prostitution.
A shame for a country that says rich.
Rich is a handful of Wall Street speculators who suck the energy of the nation.
Not impressed me with those plywood houses. When I beat, I cross the walls.
Fat people smelling bad and only eat crap. Definitely the North-American people is poor!
6. Methinks you are fibbing a bit. Our homeless are fat not starving.
Apr 01st, 2014 - 12:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I am sure our poverty does amaze you since even the poorest in the USA have more resources than your middle class.
We also do not have shoeless filthy kids begging at street corners like you do in Brazil. And prostitutes for gosh sakes you must never have been to Rio!
The USA must be the only country in the world with fat homeless!
Also why are you vacationing in the poor areas? We don't have homeless in touristy areas at least not the ones I go to.
Plus most of our homeless are crazy, they want to be out in the streets. There are tons of gov't and charities that will rehabilitate, feed and cloth them if they wanted to take advantage of the system.
yankee let's ask him for some details on the airports he flew into. Like customs areas in JFK......or Miami. But still I wait for his response as to why he vacations in the slums. Do you suppose he was homesick?
Apr 01st, 2014 - 03:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Great visiting card for the world cup tourists...if they get through the war zone into the centre of Rio, they can be considered winners ...
Apr 01st, 2014 - 04:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@1 Ilsen...after the tournament ? well, not difficult to imagine....it'll all go back to the shit it is now.
@6 Yankeeboy, you are being very generous with this asshole called Brasileiro...he is an outright liar...he's never been out of his own slum, far less Brazil....it's obvious he's never travelled to the US...at most, he's seen one of the many films in Youtube focusing on Detroit...and in his limited, stupid mind, has generalized. That is the problem of giving access to a tool like the internet to a fool like Brasileiro, when he is obviously not educated enough or prepared to use it properly.
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