So we went on the Favela tour. Wicked!!!!! We learnt so much and we are now going to try and tell you it all. We went to the biggest in Rio, Rochina, over 60, 000 people. A favela is thousands of self built houses crammed together with tiny alleys between them on the hills where poor people live. These work in Rio as maids and stuff. They build them on the hills because if nowone claims the land you are on in 5 years it is yours. There is over 600 in Rio alone! All run by different gangs and in charge of by drug lords. You´re safer there than in the city itself as there are rules set by the drug lords that they all abide by. They don´t steal up there just in the
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