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Around a quarter of the residents of Rio de Janeiro live in favelas. That’s a type of slums in Brazil, often on the outskirts of big cities, where the state laws simply don’t work and all the power is in the hands of the local gangs. Neither police nor armed forces can really do anything about it. The land of unlawfulness, this must be a really scary place to visit. Or have these communities come up with their own way of living that doesn’t require help from the state? Today we’ll find that out!
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Timestamps:
00:00 What’s the worst that can happen? Rio de Janeiro microwave, for instance
02:21 Heading to Complexo do Chapadão, “not the safest place on Earth”
05:52 What is a ‘favela’?
07:29 Life in the most dangerous part of Rio
08:28 Economy of favelas, and what the police does about it
09:09 Talking to a local gangster
11:21 Children and teenagers with guns
12:12 Why you can’t shoot videos here
13:50 Are slums in Brazil really that dangerous?
16:03 They sell drugs on the streets here
18:36 Library in favela
19:46 Locals don’t want to have troubles with the police
20:53 Borders between favelas in Rio
24:57 Warning signals
26:56 “Brazil outside Rio is actually a safe place”
30:25 Houses made of rubbish in São Paulo
34:01 How people make a living in favelas
37:21 Brazilians and their obsession with football
38:40 Places to avoid here
40:41 Closing remarks
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Good night from PAPUA NEW GUINES'I enjoyed watching your contents
One of the best channels on YouTube Ilya Varlamov!!
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Hi Ilya. I don't think I watched this video in russian, but could hear your voice as well. You're a brave man to film such people 👍
Illya sweetie,always remember to do your best to be safe. I love your videos,but they are not worth your safety or your life😊
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My best advice to anyone travelling, as a tourist, to Brasil is that if you stay around the most touristic areas of Brasil you should be totally fine. The government needs your foreign currency and devotes lots of protection in those areas. Every place else your safety will be lesser and lesser. Rio de Janeiro is more dangerous than most of Brasil, but if one stays around Copacabana, Ipanema e Leblon beaches, Sugar loaf and other tourist areas you will have no problem. Crime in Sao Paulo is still way too high, not much less than Rio.
BUT the same gangs that are mentioned The PCC and the CV, Capital's First Command and Red Command respectively, have branched out to almost every corner of Brasil.
I've been to Brasil many times, I work work the six warm months in the US and the colder six weather months, I would go to Brasil spent their warmer months there. I even was "volunteered", means work without pay, to run a bar in the Zero area of Varzea Grande, in the state of Mato Grosso, for a short while, which I found out later that when I would mentioned that I had lived in Varzea Grande folks gave me a wide berth, for the Zero is supposedly the most violent area of Brasil.
Please stay safe and do the tourist thing and don't risk into areas that may ruin your vacation.
The only reason drugs are illegal is bc gov't can't collect taxes on sales so they just come in and steal your drugs and sell them themselves.
Congratulations Ilya!!! Having been in Rio for 30 occasions, as a tourist, I have always stayed away from favelas; however, the human drama of making a living to survive is really striking. Beyond the fact that recreational drugs are not good for individuals, or the society as a whole, I understand that microtrafficking is a way to earn a living in areas where opportunities to make progresss are almost non existent.
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