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Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries
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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (33202)5/7/2003 6:29:19 AM
From: elmatador  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
Why the slums are in Rio's hills

Rio was up to 1961 country's capital. Because the civil servants area lazy bunch and it is a hot city, hard work was not their strength hence giving the fame of Brazilians being lazy. Something resented by the industrial capital Sao Paulo, 400Km to the south.

In the 19th century Brazil had several internal skirmishes and there was always trouble somewhere to be resolved. In one of them, the army asked for volunteers to help fighting and the government would grant them land ownership.

The volunteers were mainly black freed slaves without jobs. They went there, fought, government put the fire up but didn't give them the land. They felt shafted, march to Rio and promised to camp there until the government listened to them and fulfilled their promises.

Rio the sierra, that normally ruins north south, is at that spot, right inside the water, giving it those nice mountains by the water line, but didn't have many places for the guys to camp with family and everything. The only places they found was up hill an area covered with a plant called Favela Tree.

They are still there hanging on, now even forgot why they came and their shanty towns are called favela.

Next why the drug took over.
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