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Surveys of residents have shown that the UPP has successfully reduced the number of violent crimes and deaths in the favelas and that many people are now freer to discuss previously banned topics, without fear of being attacked. Tourists can also now visit the settlements safely, if accompanied by a guide.
Some people, however, argue that there has been an increase in the concentration of criminals in other parts of the city, in neighbourhoods which don’t have permanent pacification police forces patrolling the streets. There is also a worry amongst some residents that an undercurrent of violence will always be around which can never be removed.
All Brazilian cities have shanty towns surrounding them or favelas, as they are called locally.
There are approximately 1,000 favelas in Rio de Janeiro, with about 20% of the city’s population living in them. Most of the current favelas expanded in the 1970s, when a construction boom meant lots of workers from poorer states in Brazil wanted to live in Rio de Janeiro, despite not being able to afford houses in the city centre or the bus fare to travel to cheaper houses in the suburbs.
GOVERMENT
Emilio Medici (1969-1974)
-Imposed military dictatorship- this reflects the culture of how possession of guns guarantee more power in the City of God
-The country experienced an economic boom- this suggests that the government ignored the favelas, as evident from the City of God. they would heave had money to spend on them but chose not to.
-this goverment wanted to eradicate the favelas.
$113 per month (1961)
- this makes it clear why the inhabitants of the favelas turned to crime, as they would have been able to earn more money with crime that by getting a job.
- Native Brazilians
-Black African
- Arab
-Japenese immigrants
BY ZARA + CAITLIN