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POPSMother of teen is mad-as-hell about the Sarkozy, Obama photo Her mom added, "She is really skinny and only ever wears pants. Mayara is timid and ashamed of her body. This was the first time in her life that she wore a dress, and it was borrowed from a friend in the shantytown because she doesn't own one." The high school sophomore, who hails from one of Rio de Janeiro's slums known as favelas, had been picked by UNICEF to join the counterpart Junior 8 forum of teenagers because she stood out as a community volunteer. She shares a single room with her parents and two younger brothers and can't afford the bus fare to attend a good high school. "Why are they looking at her like that? This is a girl who is articulate and intelligent and just wants to do the right thing," the father said. "Instead, they are forcing her into a negative light."
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POPSFAVELAS CARIOCAS 1970 O livro "FAVELAS CARIOCAS 1970" fotografado e diagramado pelo fotógrafo Fernando Bergamaschi, prefaciado pelo historiador professor Décio Freitas, e escrito em português e inglês pela antropóloga/cientista politica americana professora Janice E. Perlman.
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POPSREPTILES BUSTED IN DRUG RAID ! These to look like the masterminds of the group too ! US police officer comments: small bust ,trying going on a bust in "M.VICK's" backyard !
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POPSGrowth of "Protestantism" in Brazil In it's shift from ritualistic Catholicism to shallow Pentecostalism, Brazil is jumping from the spiritual frying pan into the spiritual fire. People from the favelas flock to the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God--but no transformation is taking place in the favelas. Indeed, the favelas are getting worse, which the Universal Church gets richer.
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POPSChildren and Violence: Favelas of Brazil "Poverty, the institutionalization of drug factions, and the lack of access to the traditional work market is common to everyone who lives in the favela." Dowdney states. "Adolescents, particularly, are attracted to the social ascension and the status achieved by working with a drug gang." Dowdney adds, "Peer groups and family members, especially mothers, contribute to reasons why youths choose to get involved or not." It would be terrible of me to suggest that this is a parallel universe. But I often picture myself in situations like these... I'd be dead in no time. i'd be the yellow boy of the favela. and this is just one of the many regions in the world that are seeing this kind of violence. i just saw richard attenborough's gandhi... its an ok film, mostly uncritical... but if only the world had the courage this man had.
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