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Rio de Janeiro walls in its poor residents
April 6, 2009 by Phoebe Ferris-Rotman
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I have heard very little about this, and it is fascinating because it has clear historical implications. Brazilian bureaucrats seem, to me at least, to address their country with a heightened, blind pragmatism–thus the constant pace of rainforest eradication. And now a big wall around the favelas. Physical walls have done little but stimulate social change, sometimes violently. Ignoring advancement in education and social inequality, for the opposite effect is clearly the wrong direction.
Good you’re posting news of this. The Brazilian state’s response is all of a piece with NOT dealing adequately with the real criminals who need to be walled in — the slave-owning ranchers who are illegally logging the rain forest, as the previous respondent points out.