In the ghetto

29 April 2005

Slum pickings: Brazil’s shanty town dwellers live cheek by jowl with its affluent areas

Source: Getty Images

Land of opportunity it may be, but Brazil is also a developing country. Heather Greig-Smith sees Rio’s poverty at first hand – in a favela

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