The favela is undoubtedly a dangerous place if you´re not with the right people, but I feel there is a misconception of these poor areas of rio as portrayed in City of God and the like.
These are communities of passionate, freindly and welcoming people... it is the divide between rich and poor and the drugs that causes violence...
Rochina is the largest favela in the whole of South America; a spectacular place of buildings falling down the mountainside. My perception had been that these were the shanty towns of rio, but that isn´t the case. These areas house the hard working class of the city - the cooks, the cleaners, the hotel workers - who need to be close to their work in order to keep their jobs and survive.
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