Living in Rio is like to live always in the middle of a movie.
One morning in the slums of Santa Marta in Botafoch. Living in the hills above Rio and attend the high-rise is like living in a movie. Rio de Janeiro is the only city in the world where the poor, the underclass, look down on the rich and opulent city.
Feb. 3 at five forty in the morning accompany an AP journalist friend of mine who follows a false police operation (?) In the favela of Santa Marta and the surrounding neighborhoods in Botafoch Laranjeiras, Humana, through the streets Belisario Tavora, LE MAITRE Mendes and General Glicerio in Laranjeiras. The most significant deployment
policemen in assets war and invasion of the favelas. It seemed attitude a real war, the population could not be seen but the feeling that everyone was watching behind the windows. A race infernal machines motion of the underworld and the police, bullets whistled, 100 men and after three hours helicopters buzzed overhead. The people who went out into what little worried watching were convinced that there was a war between drug traffickers and the police, because in November 2009, the Civilian Police / pacificatoria occupied the hill to restore order. Many
gunfire and terror ran through all the streets of the favelas, the inhabitants were not been advised that it was being recorded for a film, some residents interviewed by Paul after declared that all was over: "chaos, the noise was so great and the bullets whistled over their heads, so much so that many of us have returned home we advised our employers and not come out more to go to work. "
great controversy in local newspapers and TV had not been advised of the population, even though the president of the citizens of the favela of Santa Marta, in the late afternoon declared that "the inhabitants of the favelas were notified through a local radio station " but, many people had been taken by surprise, a young AB, of 28 years "I thought that - morro (hill) - there was an invasion and a war between the mob and the police was that the national deployment of forces was unthinkable that they were shooting a movie.
The producer of the short film, declared "weapons were loaded with blank bullets and the information has not been disclosed so as not to conflict with the true organized crime and how to avoid - in 2006 - which, a machine with 90 guns were stolen . The controversy continues.
Rio a permanent film where the boundary between fiction and reality are never clearly visible. back towards evening after this fantastic experience, thanks to my friend Paul a bit 'dazed and thinking that two or three times a year these things really happen in 750 favelas in Rio.
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