Financial Times:Rio de Janeiro state plans to wall off slums
Here in the USA some of us wall out the poor. But in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, they have decided to wall them in. To wit:
The government of Rio de Janeiro state yesterday proposed to build a wall around its sprawling favelas in an effort to help control rampant crime in the picture postcard city.
"The wall won't put an end to violence [in the slums] but if we don't contain it, it will destroy the [surrounding] forest, the economy of Rio de Janeiro and the lives of the city's residents," Luiz Paulo Conde, deputy governor, said on Monday.