The Brazilian government has begun today in the development works of the dangerous slums of the tourist city of Rio de Janeiro, with initial investments in excess of 680 million euros. Under a strong security scheme, protected by gunmen and scores of police and military, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, has launched this program in the favela of Cantagallo, between the tourist districts of Ipanema and Copacabana Rio.
"Revolution" launched in urban Rio de Janeiro will quality of living, education and health to the residents of these slums, Lula promised during the official ceremony in a community center. Rio's favelas, home to a quarter of the population of Brazil's second largest city, have traditionally been neglected by the State, even according to the authorities.
The favela look more green when planted 1,600 trees of pau-brasil, a talisman that gives its name to the country and is in danger of extinction despite being the most common when they arrived the Portuguese.
Most of these communities is now under the control of drug gangs, or "militias" composed of former cops and crooked cops, who are paid to give protection. "Rio can not appear only in the crime pages. It is not normal and just. It is true that there are bandits, like anywhere in the world, but 98% are people who want to work and study," said Lula.
UN and Brazilian civil society organizations defending human rights accused the police excesses committed in those places of authority and extrajudicial killings under the pretext of imposing order.
frenzy with the arrival of Lula was incessant yesterday in what is considered one of the most violent favelas of Rio de Janeiro, practically in the hands of drug trafficking, along with its neighbor Pavão Pavãozinho.
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