World's worst places: Top 10 places you do not want to visit in 2012

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1-06-2012 @ 10:27AM

Nori said...

TO MARCO - Brazil has 25-35% unemployment in some cities, especially in the Northeast. The favelas (poor shanty towns) have 50% unemployment or higher - that is why they exist. Because people have no jobs! The government can create any unemployment numbers it wants because Brazil does not have unemployment benefits like we do here. Lose a job in Brazil and there is no check in the mail. You're on your own. BTW, I have been to Sao Paulo and Rio. Educated light-skinned Brazilians might have 5% unemployment. Others are poor! There are gangs of drug addicted orphans running the streets, living in cardboard boxes and getting high to ease the pain of hunger. I HAVE SEEN THEM! Government corruption is rampant. You have to pay a bribe to get ANYTHING done. So your fantasies about a prosperous Brazil don't fit the TRUTH that Brazil is a corrupt, improverished, third world country. Your national pride is admirable but a fantasy. Look around you, Marco and wake the hell up!

1-06-2012 @ 2:26PM

Tomas Bottel said...

Your personal opinion about Brazil is not going to change the fact that the country is getting wealthier and wealthier everyday, in a fast pace. I have no doubt Rio favelas are loaded with poor and lower educated people. But our generation is doing huge improvements taking millions out of there, a great record when we have inherited all this problems from previous generations. Meanwhile your generation inherited, in your "1st world" country, wealthy and huge head starts and you are destroying everything. You said that government manipulates facts, you should know a lot about that, specially after your 2008 massive mess. Ride around Obama´s area, Washington D.C., "the capital of the richest nation", and you will see tens of thousands of homeless people in deadly freezing weather, its getting worse everyday there, thanks to your "trustful and reliable government data". It would take 20 more years to spread equality all over Brazil, but its a beautiful journey, much better than going down, like you are going, hurting your poorest the most. Brazil is already the second country in the world to receive international investments, we passed China and India, and most Americans don´t know that Latin America buys more products made in USA than the European Union. In the US, crime is solved by putting millions of people in private prison cages, including thousand of minors. If Brazil puts the equivalent of 40% of the US prison population in Brazilian prisons, it would be safer than Norway. But thats not an option, US private prisons will be one of the worse deficits the US citizens will have in a decade ahead, there will be not enough money to support them anymore, private prison lobbyists elect presidents, but they want to be paid after that, with huge profits. And last, Rocinha its not a place I´m interested to visit, just like I don´t want to watch people driving nice cars and visiting American pride museums around homeless people in D.C., but Rocinha is the most visited slum in the world by tourists, none was killed there in the last decades...

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