Favela Wars: Life In Brazil’s Urban Killzone

Favela Wars (2003): Gang violence in Brazil’s major cities has escalated For downloads and more information visit: The violence spilling out of Brazil’s slums or ’favelas’ has made the country’s two major cities more dangerous than most war zones. Children in Rio de Janeiro are eight times more likely to die violently than those in the West Bank. “They live on a kill or be killed basis,“ states anthropologist Luke Dowdney, who has spent five year