This slum, called Rosinia, is considered the largest single slum in South America and is said to house 250,000 people. Michael Jackson has filmed mv here, "Fast and Furious" has also used this place as a filming location, "City of God" depicts the current situation of this slum, although it is a paradise of crime, but the slum has become another business card of Rio, its own value of his visit.
Rio slums are located in excellent locations around Mount Jesus halfway up the city center, some of which are only a wall away from the rich quarters, and many of the slums are good people, who are either rich servants or drivers, postmen, salesmen, etc., but the district is notorious for the gangsters and drug dealers who live here. It used to be a crime-prone area, especially vehicle theft and drug trade.
Last September, some 70 gang members carrying submachine guns and grenades engaged in a fire with a rival drug gang that had previously been entrenched in the slum, a process that lasted more than five hours.
According to statistics, there were 3457 vicious homicides in Rio in the third quarter of 2017. In a year, about 103 uniformed officers were killed.
This is a lawless place! A complex of heaven and hell.
There are many legends about the slums of Rio, and it is said that no one can take them into it.
Once you go in and get caught by the gang, the police will definitely not come to your rescue. The police will not go into the slums controlled by the gangs. If you see a fire in the slum, it is said that it is very likely that the police and gangsters are on fire.
Fortunately, just before the World Cup and the Olympic Games approached, Rio launched a large-scale slum clearance operation. It's not as messy here as it used to be. But living here is not a comfortable thing, the streets are particularly narrow and depressed, the narrowest place opposite the two people on the wrong side of the car have to turn sideways, and the road is everywhere to defecate, the temperature is bad. The tour guide said that the water and electricity here are all illegal and random, there is no garbage truck to clean up the garbage, only rely on a heavy rain in the rainy season to wash the garbage down the mountain. Glancing at the locals from the window of the car can also make people feel some palpitations.