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Brazil's Newest Tourist Destination - Slums
With the nation eager to garner world favor ahead of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, the new venture will afford curious visitors a chance to see the interior of a favela, which sometimes are lawless shantytowns rampant with drug-trafficking and violent crime.
But President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said he hopes to show that slum dwellers perhaps are impoverished but are just like people everywhere.
"People in my generation want to make sure that our children never refer to any neighborhood as a favela," Lula said as he unveiled the new program.
"Favelas are neighborhoods, communities, like everywhere else," the leftist president and former labor organizer said as he launched his "Rio Top Tour."
About a third of Rios urban population of six million live in the citys 1,000 slums, making them a formidable security challenge ahead of the Olympics in six years time.
The city last year beat out Chicago, Madrid and Tokyo to become the first South American country to host the 2016 Olympics.
But it has a reputation as one of the worlds most violent cities, especially around its infamous favelas, and concerns have arisen since its winning bid that the country may not be able to keep the rampant crime in check.
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