SLUMS-A heavily populated urban area characterized by substandard housing and squalor. Often used in the plural.
SHANTY TOWNS- more appropriate than slums: settlemen of impoverished people who live in improvised dwellings made from scrapplywood,corrugated metal, and sheets of plastic.
I prefer to use favela, though. It's becoming a more and more common term. If you asked people from other countries about the meaning of this word 10 years ago, they probably wouldn't know what it meant. But now, it's even used on newspapers and on television, as you will read or listen in the links below. It's a globalized world that we live in, after all.
Well, here are some links about this:
BBC news:
Reuters
Guardian
New York Times
Time Magazine
Euronews
The Crack-down in Rio, was made by the Police. The Navy gives the support to the police forces to invade the complex. The Army provides the Brazilian's peace force to enclose the "Complexo do Alemão".
ResponderExcluirThis will not solve the problem of Rio's criminality.
I agree with you. But let's hope that by 2014, they will have come up with another solution.
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