this thread makes me want to go to fogo de chao tonight for dinner. lol

More favela pics, courtesy of my friend Dr. Link Hotten,

http://globetrotter-games.com/travel...ila_Canoas.jpg

http://misheli.image.pbase.com/u23/m...23.021_18A.jpg


A story re: favelas;

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (CNN) -- It was 100 years ago that the first favela, or hillside shantytown, appeared on the outskirts of Rio De Janeiro.

Despite numerous official attempts to eradicate these handbuilt renegade suburbs, housing the poorest of the poor, they have multiplied over the past century. Today there are more than 600 favelas, where one in five Rio residents lives.

Among their number is Dulciene de Souza, who lives in a 20-by-20 foot (6.1 meter-by-6.1 meter) shack with her husband and six children.
CNN's Frida Ghitis reports.

"There are streets where shacks are crumbling," she says. "There is no place for the children to play."

Until just a few years ago, the city had a policy of trying to get rid of the slums. Every so often, residents would be violently removed, only to move on to another favela.

But this approach to city planning is now history. Mayor Luis Paolo Conde was recently elected with many votes from these slums, and he has promised to continue a program to rehabilitate the favelas and help them become a legitimate part of the city.

"We are giving people back their citizenship -- the chance to live on a street and a house with a name and an address," says the mayor.

But urban renewal in Rio faces one very real and intractable problem -- drug traffickers.

Violent drug gangs make it almost impossible to even enter some of Rio's favelas, let alone upgrade the housing. The government has to resort to war-like maneuvers just to get into the neighborhoods.

However, Mayor Conde downplays the connection between the favelas and drug trafficking, noting that cities without the former still have the latter.

And despite the obstacles, his new campaign to improve the favelas has sparked hope in people like Noemia Farias, who has raised nine children and 32 grandchildren in a tiny home with no running water where she's lived for decades.

She says things will get better, with the help of God and the mayor.

that is fucked up...

man thats crazy

Change back the nick bro, I am going to miss your posts this way as I tend to look for nicknames when I read Gfy ;))))

Btw hit me up tomorow, I owe you some pennies ;)

Free birth control might help a lot of these people.

they hand out free condoms alot i think

agreed. very dangerous for a gringo.

the favella kids come down to copacabana after dark and rip off tourists, you can sit on your balcony above Av Atlantica and watch gangs of 10-12 year old kids walk behind german tourists, punch the guy in the face and take his wallet, and rip the necklace off the women's neck.

and you will see shit like this every night. very dangerous city for westerner.

if you act like a target you will become a target.... i dont wear any jewelery, i only keep like 50$ on me, and another 50$ hidden in my 007 zipper lined leather belt i wear... also im a pretty big guy who wears his hat on backwards and always has a crew with me... additionally i take a taxi everywhere after dark....

smart-travelling reprazent'

Hedonsitic we have to hook up next time I am down there. Going to skip March as we are going to Italy but I go every month normally.

They handed out condoms when we entered the sambadrome during carnival.

The europeans might have issues but the kids are so polite. I had a couple of them trying to hold me up, and it took like 5 mintues to figure out what they were doing. If you have been to an inner city in the US it is pretty close.

very nice pics!!!

That all nice but do you have any pictures/videos of the 2005 Brasil Carnaval? :winkwink:

great post hedonistic... i'm going to rent the movie city of god sometime next week for me and my brother inlaw to watch... :pimp

the fucked up thing is the favelas have the greatest fucking real estate (except for Av.Atlantico), hillside looking straight at the atlantic. would be a great place to build a house if you could make it 24 hours wthout being shot

i had a kid come up spank my model on the ass and start jerking off right there on leme - cop had to chase the little gloo sniffer away.

its very fucking sad to see such poverty, but i still think god is brasilian :thumbsup

Very nice place for movie making... I like too.......

Theres a good book which deals with this subject -- The Mystery of Capital -- Why Capitalism works in the West and Fails Everywhere Else by Hernando de Soto

would definitely be an intersting tour.

wtf ??? are you serious, he started wacking off on your model's ass ?

thanks for sharing

actually that was me, he mistook me for a favela kid i think

no this kid couldnt have been more than 8 years old - started whacking off right on the beach just chillin at the kiosk jerkin it grabbing the modlels ass. im in favor of this keep in mind (just the model didnt like it too much), and proud of the open culture :thumbsup

Nice... if you happen to make the tour, please share the pictures.

Let me ask you, do you like the food besides our BBQs?

The one just past Leblon has the best spot in all of Rio. It is nuts that the poor people get to live there.

yes although admittely i havent tried much else... im afraid to try the nationial cuisine "feijoada" as i hear it comes from the slave days when the rich portuguese would finish their dinner they'd give the scraps to the slaves, they'd throw in some black beans and eat it... kind of like a poor mans goulash... while im sure it taste good, im weird about eating food that isnt 1 thing or another... maybe ill try it before i leave...

hey you're in sao paulo? thats where the best trannies are!! lucky bastard!

yea that feijoada stuff looks pretty gnarly :throwup

dude hop a plane if you like trannies its only a 45 min flight

:1orglaugh

craziest fucking photoshoot story ever !!

i was just informed by Jer that there is pig's ears in feijoada... that 100% scratches it off my things to eat list =)

They have ghettos like that all over latin America. :(

Most of South America has those, but with different names. They are all on the hill because the land owners back in the day used to put the slaves and workers there because flat land was for farming, not for housing the servants.

If you ever go fly into Caracas, Venezuela at night and drive into town the slums there on the hills all have 1 white light. It looks like the hills have Christmas lights all over them and it is very beautiful... until the sun comes up.

BTW... I shot a lot of girls this trip from various favelas. It's also not nice I found out to use that "Favela" word in front on them. It's kind of rubbing it from their face that they are from the slums. At least that's what I was told. :helpme

And YEA!!!! You brought the sig back. I was starting to lose sleep.

The community looks like it's gonna collapse.

those photos look alot like some of the places here in Mexico. These people will sell their children to others who put them to work on the streets begging or selling things to the tourists. When you give them moeny, you never know where it will end up. But if you give them food, it goes striaght into their mouths. that they will not share, or take back to the people they were sold to.

i aim to please brutha!

are you still in rio? when do u/did you leave?

i cant believe we havent hooked up yet lol

You really should give it a try... you're missing something if you leave without tasting it. Put some "farofa" together and enjoy! :)

By the way, although I'm not really into trannies yes there're some here where I have to check twice on their neck to distinguish them. Aren't you coming here? Guess you've already heard about Rua Augusta? Hehe.

kman, the traditional feijoada comes with all kinds of shit, like pig feet, ear, tail, tongue...

but not all feijoadas come packed with nasty pig parts, I also hate that stuff they put in, so I only eat feijoadas without all that crap.

have you visited Buzios yet? you also MUST go to northeast man, ask Jer about it! The most exotic beaches/bitches are there :thumbsup

Cool community.

Jesus Christ, I can't believe people live like that. Makes me feel fortunate.