[OT] Pray for Andre

Andre Garzia andre at andregarzia.com
Mon Oct 15 11:43:11 EDT 2012


Thanks Richmond,

I am doing well here. I actually live in Niterói which is the city on the
other side of the bay everyone sees on the postcard. I've been living with
those kinds of raid since forever so its no as impressive for us as it is
for foreigners. I live reasonably close to two slums which surround the
prime real estate area of my city. After 32 years of this sh*t, you learn
how to manage it.

I think this was one of the reasons I was so amazed when I went to
Edinburgh and saw people late at night with cameras and laptops walking on
the meadows. In Rio you would not dare to do that. At least it never gets
dull or boring. For those wanting to see a "faithful" representation of Rio
thru movies, I recommend "City Of God" which is an action movie set on the
slum called City Of God. It is a fantastic movie. I also recommend both
"Elite Troop" and "Elite Troop 2" which are action movies about Rio de
Janeiro Special Ops Troop. That police force is called BOPE (Special Police
Operations Battalion), all their gear is black and their symbol is a skull
crossed with knifes and this is the police. Actually I saw one of them last
week, I counted four pistols and a machine gun on a single guy. The movie
is great because its not your typical movie about crazy police force
against bad crime lords. It shows how corruption works on Rio all the way
from the mayor office to the slums and inside the police force. US and
European watchers who never saw anything about south american exciting life
style as told by ourselves will have a great and enlightening experience
with those movies.

:-)

:-)

On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com>wrote:

> Another "quiet night in Rio" I see:
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/**world-latin-america-19940440<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-19940440>
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