Brazil struggles to secure slums

In preparation for the 2014 World Cup, Brazilian police have been working hard to cut crime.

Their target has been the gangs that run the shantytowns.

Al Jazeera's Gabriel Elizondo reports from the Rio de Janeiro slum Complexo do Alemao, where the police have reclaimed control.

About 1,700 soldiers and 150 police now patrol the slum, but drug trafficking is still continuing.

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[t5e2]

@MarceloRodrigues1 much rather have the police with the automatic weapons than the drug cartel with automatic weapons.

[greenhell666]

the social exclusion was there way before the drugs

[silky8100]

It does not matter who holds the weapons; in the end all weapons serve the same function: terror and death in affected communities. A policeman with a gun is not less dangerous than any other with a gun. And in the end all men/women are liable to corruption.

[mariamole011]

@SertanejaBrasiliero what do u mena by enlistment.???? army enlistment???

[bodyheals]

@nzau2010 a bit presumptuous i did not say anything about me and mine, is there a voice in your head?

[nzau2010]

@bodyheals Right but who's preventing you from exercising these rights? You can feed yourself and your family and stop begging for rights from other humans with no claim to power.

[mrtriplewinner]

I hope the romenians start to organize and put pressure cause the longer you turn to the other side, the worst the problem will be. It had been like that in Rio for three decades. This program has been exported to other states and cities around Brazil. Maybe when our president visit Bulgaria, more information about this subject could hit your region.

[playgrrrr]

@greenhell666 I know.

Even if there was money, most people probably wouldn't want to be relocated. At least that's how it is in most parts of the world. So what better alternatives can be applied? You have to start somewhere.

[greenhell666]

@playgrrrr doesnt matter, the slums houses are unsafe, there was no planning, they were created by a flux of unemployed workers that came to the big cities decades ago

the government offer new services while knowing that a lot of the houses are unsafe and should be demolished, but there is no money or places to re-allocate the population

just wait until the next rain season, with or without water and energy, they will have floods and landslides all over again.

watch?v=C3yH1RViPAI

[Hillsillverr]

thats because the goverment supplies the drugs to the people..

[shipmaker14]

@larasa007 What do you mean?

[playgrrrr]

@greenhell666 That's why the city is installing water, sewer and electricity there, is it not?