Sunday, November 28, 2010

Rio Violence( part 2)

Update on the Rio Civil War in the city...

The army & Police have taken over one of the biggest slums here.  There are still many helicopters flying around and many people have been told to stay at home.  The people who live up in the hill of the slums have been told to not leave and if they have already left, then their not allowed back in their homes.  The police have it surrounded.  They are checking everyone in the area.

The drug dealers were given a choice to surrender yesterday but they never so the army have forced into the scheme and caught many of the drug dealers.  Alot of drugs, weapons and money have been found and taken to the police headquarters.  The top drug dealers have been flown out of Rio de Janeiro and to other cities in Brazil to try and keep them from interacting with other drug dealers in the area.








Saturday, November 27, 2010

Rio Police in favelas!!

At the moment in Rio de Janeiro, it seems the police are trying to get the drug dealers out of control in the favelas... the police and the army soldiers are grouping together and fighting back now.  All the while the drug dealers and people living up in the Favelas are coming down to the city and burning cars, buses and anything which will cause havoc on innocent people.  Not caring if people die or get injured.

The aim I suppose is to try and get the police out of the favelas and back down into the city areas, this clearly isn´t working.  Their are police all over.. it seems to me Rio is defently not ready to host the World Cup in 2014.

BBC news has the latest of what is happening.  See the link below

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11852588

I believe this will be on going for the next few months or years in fact...







Monday, November 15, 2010

The Real Brazil (Part 1)

From favelas to police fighting drug dealers... from kids hanging on the buses for a free ride and others sleeping on the street because they have no place else to go.. This is the REAL BRAZIL!!


Kids getting a free ride..


Homeless

Favelas



Represnting the Brazil flag...


Police coming down from a favela

Police Cabin, empty as usual...

Christ watching over the police..